For dessert, lemon meringue tart and espresso semifreddo were expertly handled.
Day-Lewis is terrific – obviously – but the huge cast and huge history are expertly handled.
The growing tension is expertly handled; the ending unsurprising yet completely devastating.
Graeme Virtue This series of The Truth About … has been expertly handled, especially Angela Rippon's investigation of dementia.
The setup, introducing the main characters and ending with the shooting and the start of the police investigation, is expertly handled on every level: characterization, setting, pace, suspense.
The logistics were expertly handled: under the musical direction of Kathinka Pasveer, Stockhausen's longtime collaborator, incessant tremolos and glissandos blended neatly with the sound of the rotors.
About all Ryan Brown's "Ceramics" and David Lang's "Wed" had in common, apart from being expertly handled here by Lisa Moore, was a single-minded focus through which simple musical materials were made to render specific, evocative results.
The last act features the ballet's most beautiful choreography, in the gliding, hallucinatory wedding duet for Victor and Elizabeth; the device of having the Creature slipping sinisterly between the wedding guests is expertly handled.
The music's frantic figurations were expertly handled by the strings, interspersed with hot blasts of raging brass and thunderous percussion, but several times – despite some fine solo performances – a sense of direction was lost in the challenge to meet the score's myriad technical demands.
But there's no diminution in quality or excitement – dour, sardonic Renko is always a joy to be around, and the race-against-time climax, as Renko's chess-genius ward Zhenya struggles to crack the translator's code, is expertly handled.
