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Though his endorsement of Bradley was anticipated, he delivered it with deft timing in the midst of a Bradley surge, giving his pal from the Senate Finance Committee a significant boost.
So Americans are entitled to surprise at Kofi Annan's deft diplomacy in Iraq last week.
They particularly like his deft black humor and "gift for genuinely shocking his audience" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). Pope-basher Sinead O'Connor portrays the Virgin Mary.
Ted Bernstein, when he was assistant managing editor of The New York Times , published a house organ, “Winners and Sinners,” that offered kudos for the occasional “bright passage” or deft metaphor and cited questionable and nonstandard grammar and usage that appeared in the newspaper.
His deft manipulation of the debt ceiling during the 1995-96 government shutdown prevented a U.S. default and guaranteed that the political war between the president and the Republican Congress would not derail the thriving economy.