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In tart scenes poking at doctor consultations, psychiatric sessions and legal snafus — the institutional hoops where binary, normative strictures are most assertive — Preciado dexterously implies these gauntlets push life’s fictions.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 17, 2023

But on that album — and its lively, dexterously picked opening track — Wellington reclaims the instrument’s African origins while adding his own modern flair.

From New York Times Nov. 14, 2023

But Bortolameolli “kept his cool, delivering works by Saint-Saens and Dvorak while also dexterously navigating the audience's unfettered impulse for applauding between movements and sometimes kicking wine bottles down the stairs.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2018

Within a few pages, private lives and public affairs are dexterously entwined, and from then on Renton’s nimble touch never fails.

From Washington Post Jun. 8, 2018

Milton Stephanides, a twenty- year-old college student, stood at his own bedroom window, dexterously fingering his clarinet.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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