One pair of these birds made their appearance at the latter end of February, and, after cautiously surveying the place, began to construct a nest with branches which they very dextrously broke from the trees.
He always quoted dextrously: "Irwin Shaw's fiction, as Faulkner says of Popeye's face, has the 'depthless, vicious quality of stamped tin'".
Yet all being well, the NLD will dextrously dance around these hurdles.
Dextrously shifting gears, Penn suddenly asks, "Can we talk about drugs?" — a subtle ploy to get Castro to deliver another uninterrupted discourse on the wrongs of the United States.
Enjoyably plotted, sometimes dextrously turned, but groaning with moral sententiousness, This Happy Breed is peppered with moments in which characters proclaim the importance of using their own words, of not slipping into jargon, in particular the second-hand vocabulary of 1930s socialism.
It is dextrously woven together.
Samuel Diserens, an analyst from Oxford, uses his scooter to dextrously navigate traffic jams: "it's easier to control a scooter than a bike.
The second portion of the show is admittedly a mite weightier: an extended and mildly bewildering tale of a boxer staging a Rocky-style comeback, done with some dextrously realised slow-mo and a few cute wigs.
Richard Eyre's production dextrously manipulates all the elements of his 1907 A Flea in Her Ear: the swivelling bed, the swilled-down pee, the wrongly slapped cheeks, the scented notepaper that makes people sneeze, the man who can say only vowels because – John Mortimer's translation puts it succinctly – since he has no roof to his mouth, the consonants get lost "somewhere behind his face".
Paul Arditti's soundscape dextrously enhances this effect.
But his public work was a long, strung-out disaster, overlaid at the time by the widespread impression that at least it was most dextrously accomplished.
