It's no mean feat, especially since in capital after capital, Tillerson has to finesse between supporting President Trump's policies and repairing the damage from the president's harsh tweets, belligerent speeches and vulgarities about America's allies and adversaries alike.
Jacqueline Defferary is delicate as Bulgakov's increasingly desperate wife; Mark Addy glides with finesse between menace and ingratiation: he is the NKVD man who turns his hand to theatre directing.
Without involving the European Commission directly in defence decisions a taboo for many members—he asks whether it could apply its experience to overseeing a "common market in weaponry".Mr Barnier's hopes for an amicable division of labour between the EU and NATO, still a far more important defence club, rose this week after a diplomatic deal to finesse differences between Greece and Turkey.
Digital technologies are helping companies finesse trade-offs between complexity's costs and benefits.
In particular, the EADC's attitude to partnerships beyond Europe must finesse big differences between its co-founders.
If Mr. Romney had hoped to finesse the differences between his Medicare views and those of his running mate, as he hinted in the days after Mr. Ryan was chosen, that seems all the more difficult now.
At the news conference this Thursday, Mr. Draghi will most likely need to finesse the difference between investors' desire for instant gratification and the obstacles that remain before heavy-duty bond buying can start.
There are some clunky moments in the dialogue and direction, and maybe Ferrara doesn't quite finesse the switches between French and English, but Welcome to New York has the brutal courage of its convictions.
At one point the prince did finesse the difference between Arab and Western perceptions, saying the future capital should be Al Quds Al Sharif, or Holy Jerusalem, while the English text called it East Jerusalem.
Even if he can finesse the divide between his rock-ribbed conservatives and his Republicans from Medicaid-expansion states, McConnell risks blowing up what had been a meticulously crafted coalition in the House, where Ryan won, after weeks of fits and starts, by a two-vote margin.
A master of innocently naughty titillation, Boucher populated his genre scenes, pastoral idylls and mythological extravaganzas with sweet, doll-faced cream puffs in varying states of dishabille, rendering their pneumatic charms with such finely tuned skill as to finesse the gap between high art and soft porn.
