The analysis, in The Three Lovers, of Patricia Quin is done with that simplicity, quiet deftness and inoffensive frankness which is the hallmark of Mr. Swinnerton's fiction.
And, having made a bed in the cradle from some folded covers, he lifted the baby with strange deftness and placed it in.
Matlack and Martin cooked and waited with a skill and deftness which would have surprised any one who did not reflect that this was as much their business as hunting or woodcraft.
Wilkins writes of New England country life, analyzes New England country character, with the skill and deftness of one who knows it through and through, and yet never forgets that, while realistic, she is first and last an artist.
Somehow it suggests a comparison with "Four Days" by Hetty Hemenway, although it is told with greater deftness and a more subtle irony.
It was a stiff contract guiding the little ambulance over the shell-rutted roads, with deftness and precision, to those distant dressing stations where the hurt soldiers waited for him.
It is His life which manifests itself in every member and which gives clearness of vision to the eye, strength and deftness to the hand.
She set the lamp down, and with swift deftness slipped out hatpins, unhooked furs, unbuttoned and unlaced and loosened, until Sylvia woke from her lethargy and quickly completed the process, slipping on her nightgown and getting into bed.
He arranged it with his unobtrusive deftnessin getting what he wanted out of a group of his fellow-beings, and she admired his skill, and leaned on it confidently.
But the deftness of each in eluding such dangerous missiles was about the same, and no great harm had at any time resulted from the effects of momentary ebullitions of anger, followed by action on the part of either.
Whilst, if you confine your attention to the use of the information given by the marks, trusting to your wits rather than to the deftness of your fingers, you will not only win but 'last.
The sharp who seeks his fortune by manipulation of the 'ivories' has to devote many weary hours to the acquisition of deftness in the manoeuvres which he intends to employ.
All this to say nothing of Pearson's own well- earned reputation for knowledge of custom, intelligence, and deftness in turning out the objects of his care in such form as to be a reference in themselves when a new place was wanted.
They had arrived with the intention of availing themselves of all such opportunities for entertainment as could be guided in their direction by the deftness of experience.
He followed her with the utmost composure, and when she stopped proceeded to divest her of her furs with the deftness of movement habitual to him.
Gently, with a capricious deftness and all a woman's passion for personal choice, she dropped the bits of money into the hands belonging to the faces that attracted her, disregarding the bellowings of those passed over.
He put it down on the table with the precise deftness which Domini had already observed in the Arabs at Robertville, and swiftly vanished.
The highly developed artistic sense of the Japanese has found expression in various ways, but their deftness and delicacy of touch has led them especially to the production of small objects that delight the collector of curios.
When we discover that in Japan every person is an artist, we wonder at the universal deftness and skill in handiwork, until we learn that Japanese calligraphy is itself a fine art.
So then the elder cried: "Up, my sons, and show your deftness to these dear friends!
In none of these was he deficient, for he was an able advocate, a statesman of undeniable ability, a commander of no mean qualities, and a writer whose skill and deftness of touch made him popular.
Without the weirdness of Poe, Meek surpassed him in deftness of touch and daintiness of expression.
He was at work upon a tangled length of tarred rope, pulling and twisting with much energy and deftness to straighten out the coil, so that it leaped and writhed in his hands like a living thing.
Adam pulled on his clothes with his usual brisk deftness of movement and went downstairs.
He came back with a blanket, and stooping, he lifted the limp form and, with a certain deftness that seemed a part of his immovable resolution, he wrapped it in the rough grey folds.
On the deftness with which this function is discharged depends almost entirely the typographic excellence of the printed page.
It was the sort of generalized, picturesque "fluff-stuff" matter which Banneker could handle better than his compeers by sheer imaginative grasp and deftness of presentation.
Gavan could but admire his own deftness in tossing a newspaper over the pistol.
He felt his rather silly deftness penetrated and that she guessed that the mountain calls had not at all enchanted him.
As to the deftness and taste of the weavers the shawls themselves are the best testimony.
The three might well stand aghast that forenoon to see the deftness with which Mrs. Neligage wrought her mischief.
Neligage laughed, and swung his mallet through the air, striking an imaginary ball with much deftness and precision.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deftness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
