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Example sentences for: dexterity
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One of the many amazing things about "Spikey" Isikoff's new book, Uncovering Clinton , is the dexterity of its execution.
She recently published a book called The Language of Silence , about German literature's relationship to the Holocaust, in which she accuses Grass of a flippant disregard for Germany's victims: "[T]here is an ingrained obtuseness and insensitivity to those who suffered and died, evident in a language where silence is veiled in verbal dexterity and a creative exuberance rooted in pre-Holocaust aesthetics."
All you need, apparently, is a lathe, a sharp knife, a band saw (not to be confused with a hawk), manual dexterity, dedication, and the requisite amount of the higher lunacy (though, like Hamlet, Arnold is but mad northnorth-west), and you too could say: I can do that.
(Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). One admirer is Margaret Atwood, writing in the New York Times Book Review : Updike "manages an amazing range of emotions with his usual grace and dexterity."
Always read "more for his trend-setting insights than his novelistic dexterity," he loses his hipster cred with this novel "by jumping on the already tired beauty-pageant-bashing bandwagon" ( Publishers' Weekly ). Even worse, "his brand labels are just slightly faded," and the story feels "curiously clipped and uptight" (Tom Shone, the New York Times ). On a more positive note, many also point out that despite his faux pas, Coupland has put together "a brilliant set of riffs" on pop culture and Hollywood life (James Poniewozik, Time ). (Click here to see some of the furniture the author has designed.)
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