And the accompanying music - mostly koto ensemble arrangements of Respighi's score "The Birds" - deftly evokes a Grecian lyre.

Throughout, Ruff deftly evokes the comedy and pain of maintaining such an elaborate inner life.

But in the very next moment, the actress deftly evokes laughter, wrings the heart or brings a tear to the eye.

The Delerue CD is a box of bittersweets: two- or three-minute cues that deftly evoke a mood or a quick pang, and then move on.

The words deftly evoke drama, but the music suggests comedy.

The exhibition deftly evokes the grimy context that helps make graffiti so compelling, but its arrangement of objects and images is unabashedly sophisticated.

This metaphor, so redolent of the classic Victorian ghost story, deftly evokes the richly suggestive relations between life and art that lie at the core of literary biography.

The United Nations has a less contrived ethnic balance than these characters, yet the film deftly evokes the differences and similarities in their perspectives.

According to this novel's cover, Plate taught himself to write while living for eight years in abandoned buildings, and he deftly evokes the squalor of a pregentrified Mission district.

Mr. Pedersen deftly evokes the burden of losing someone so publicly.