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The Georgia headbangers mixed regular metal, sludge metal, other kinds of metal and Built to Spill-style psychedelia, and somehow came up with one of the year's smartest, deftest and most anxiety-provoking tracks.

Singles file: The top 25 songs of 2010 Allison Stewart 2010

Within two minutes Andrés Iniesta flicked a wonderfully measured reverse pass into Xavi's path and this conjuror of a footballer applied the deftest of touches to back-heel the ball into Villa's path.

World Cup 2010: David Villa raises the roof as Spain push past Portugal 2010

The Obama campaign consistently shows the deftest (is that a word?) of touches.

Obama Campaign Manager Plouffe To Hold Private Outreach Meeting With Top Hillary Fundraisers 2009

Powerful people trip over each other to celebrate Dr. King's racial tonic because doing so is the deftest way to sidestep the harder topic: his blunt calls against poverty and war.

Richard M. Benjamin: The End of White America?: Teddy Bear Icons and Magical Negroes 2009

With the deftest slight-of-hand, Brooks repackages his bigotry in the vernacular of the social sciences:

David Fiderer: David Brooks Mangles History to Mask Neocon Failures 2008

Nike managed the deftest of marketing tricks: to be both anti-establishment and mass market, to the tune of $9.2 billion in sales last year.

When Cool Goes Cold 2008

Heyward's deftest maneuver was hiring Jeff Fager as Hewitt's executive-producer counterpart.

Ticking And Screaming 2008

With the deftest of touches, the prime minister put the Cherie matter to rest in his speech with a joke about the Blairs and Browns, who live at No. 10 and No. 11 Downing Street, respectively.

‘You Can’t Go On Forever’ 2007

Arthur for the keenest and deftest of men-at-arms; so he yeasaid our asking, and did all he might herein, and forsooth that was all there was to do; for he was ever in the saddle, and at the work.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

Adjective: deft defter, deftest deft 1. Skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands

From On High 2007