I found myself having to really point the remote squarely at the dock and then deliberately press each button pretty solidly to get things to go my way.
But the project also suggests something else: the way that Mr. Berlusconi, Italy's richest man, deliberately presses a flamboyant, playful streak into service to appear as a brash alternative to the usual politician.
The reformers deliberately chose press freedom as an issue to test their strength within Iran's divided political system.
A Bulgarian interior ministry official said preliminary charges had been pressed against her "for deliberately selling a child while residing out of the country".
Anderson's customary aesthetic assurance was there, but it was pressed into the service of a deliberately frustrating, often sublime, tone poem of paranoia.
In a letter to local human rights groups that had pressed the case, the military advocate general's office said the military police inquiry had refuted charges that Israeli forces had deliberately attacked civilians, or had acted hastily or recklessly.
"No campaign would deliberately solicit the press with any hope of any kind of return, so we moved to remedy that," Mrs. Clinton said in Manhattan.
But there are also some people who quite deliberately want the press to be curtailed.
But those will play, presumably, to a coterie public already initiated into the fold, just as the Factory Theatre Hamlet continues on a tour of venues that quite deliberately forsakes the press, unless Josh Hartnett happens to drops by.
