President Kennedy's deft combination of threats and harmless fig leafs worked.

But I was oddly overjoyed to see this deft combination streaking toward me.

Part of Eliza B.'s success is the product's deft combination of two popular items, ribbons and flip-flops.

Critics have commented favorably on Macdonald's deft combination of the the two sides of the mystery genre, the "whodunit" and the psychological thriller.

That deft combination may be what China's leaders hope to adopt for themselves.

Through a deft combination of threats and restraint, the Bush Administration and its allies now appear poised to bring that evidence to the outside world.

Mr. Serkin plays with a deft combination of textural clarity and milky colorings.

It began as a deft, debonair combination of 70's-style analysand comedy (the kind Woody Allen made popular) and 30's-style screwball.

Pearson and Barry offer a deft combination of laughter and fear - that is, fear undergirded by a sense of final safety.

Sinyard calls the film a "deft combination of Watergate and Ibsen's play".