I'm groping through an endless haze and way down there, a million miles from me, I see it-oh, cautiously concealed-oh, adroitly palmed-oh, deftly dropped.

Within 30 feet of the New York goal, Hogue deftly dropped a pass to defenseman Kevin Hatcher, whose quick blast eluded goalie Glenn Healy.

It was picked up in an instant, and dropped deftly into the inventor's pocket.

Kana asked, deftly dropping vegetables sliced as thin as paper into the steamer.

Bill Porter became a salesman because his father was one (information Ms. Mirren's character deftly drops in here), and he became good at it.

He could belt a ball into the distant bleachers at Yankee Stadium or deftly drop a bunt down the line and beat the throw to first base.

He was hurrying to catch up when Tarzan saw him, and as he passed beneath the tree in which the ape-man perched above the trail, a silent noose dropped deftly about his neck.

He deftly drops a charge next to it and returns the vehicle.

A small ship's boat swung on a painter on the starboard side, and Balsca deftly dropped his sea bag into it, swung over the rail, and silently left The Star of Jarot forever.

Early in Atom Egoyan's brazen "Exotica," the director deftly drops in the ideas that come to haunt the film: eroticism, secrecy and the skewed way we look at things.