deftness

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The author has a gift for describing pristine lowland forests and the majesty of trees more than 1,000 years old, and equal deftness in showing the horror of their devastation by logging and fire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Navigating diplomacy with one of the most important countries to Biden’s agenda has enabled Garcetti to flaunt his political deftness — and burnish his foreign policy credentials.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2023

Mr Scalise will have to demonstrate a political deftness if he wants to avoid a similar fate.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2023

With comparable deftness, Kelly A. Harmon’s “Trumpets of Freedom” reassembles characters from “The Lighthouse at the End of the World,” then adds steampunk robots and that aeronautical buccaneer, Robur the Conqueror.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2023

His pronounced cranium indicates his future deftness with mathematics and mechanical things.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides