The second button fell away under his deft manipulation, yet neither of them moved.

The organisation of the major exhibition recently staged at Venice revealed the consistency of his extraordinarily deft manipulation of surface effects.

You know how I like a good argument: the persuasion of unassailable logic, the deft manipulation of words, the skilful haggling before a bargain is struck.

Thus are the moods of a crowd swayed by deft manipulation.

And all of Mendel's good works are not performed through the deft manipulation of the strings of politics.

Operation required using actual coins and lengthy long distance calls with mid-call Collect signals required deft manipulation of the noisy coins falling to the return.

Č A single determined culture could wipe out all life in the Galaxy by the deft manipulation of superdense stellar corpses.

The letter was a marvel of deft manipulation.

And I don't think that happens, frankly, without some deft manipulation of the race issue.

The Times is ever-vigilant against deft manipulations of the First Amendment to protect the likes of Matt Drudge.