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During the final song—Jonson’s text “Now, Dian,” deftly set to Dowland’s famous tune “Flow My Tears”—it slowly transformed into its negative image, so her face became white.

Some groan-inducing puns aside, Rushdie’s comic touches are deftly managed, appearing as sharp satirical swipes or witty repartee.

While deftly avoiding a direct answer that might bring pressure further down the line, Rohl's message was pretty clear.

Mr. Mitchell deftly presents strategy as a way to solve critical problems, often under extreme pressure and at high stakes, with diplomacy a means to pace challenges and gain leverage.

Though he handles the science of memory deftly, in the few spots where he dwells on it, his view of memory is an expansionist one incorporating concepts of immortality as much as neural integrity.