This is partly due to her style, which deftly combines verisimilitude and simplification, especially in the rain-drenched teenage tourist of "Versailles."

In a ritual that deftly combines goofiness and gravity, Mr. Wieland invites into his classroom every father preparing to deploy.

Practical focus: Catron deftly combines abstract ideas about directing with concrete strategies on preparing for production, auditions, casting, and rehearsals.

"The Golden Hour" deftly combines fantasy and historical fiction as it explores a boy's coming to grips with grief, fear, prejudices, teenage anxieties and his sense of self.

But Chinese opera, which has long been the central manifestation of the performing arts in China, deftly combining music, drama, poetry, dance, design and acrobatics, is waning.

The author deftly combines fictional characters with real characters and presents history with an interesting fictional plot.

Monumental artwork deftly combines with additional site features to complete the visually complex - and dramatic - spectacle.

As the Penitent, Gabriel Zaragoza deftly combined ascetic fervor with wide-eyed wonder at the delights of the flesh.

These essays deftly combine personal memoirs and literary experiences, self-portraits of their authors and luminous readings of the texts themselves.

Many consider this to be their finest work, deftly combining their art-rock influences with some killer pop tunes; this record has never been issued on CD.