Skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands.
Bending and moving easily and gracefully; flexible.
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1 They deserve modern, fit - for - purpose facilities that support high quality services, he said.
2 His answer was simple: Your values alignment and fit within our culture.
3 They also raised the issue of where victims fit into the process.
4 He had asked questions about whether current laws were fit for purpose.
5 Photo: Supplied Navi says it's a good fit for the corporate market.
1 Prime Minister John Key said the Kiwibank deal was an elegant solution.
2 Because it promises an elegant , win-win solution to the problem of poverty.
3 Scanbox is an elegant solution to a simple but persistently frustrating problem.
4 He is elegant , has a good repetitive easy action and excellent pace.
5 An elegant use of the card distinguishes the well-informed in social usage.
1 Yet there is nothing graceful about the overloaded boats heading towards Europe.
2 It was a large, red brick house built along graceful Georgian lines.
3 The flight of the nighthawk is free and graceful in the extreme.
4 The new broom has a rare chance to suggest a graceful exit.
5 The roof is battlemented, and the tracery in the windows is graceful .
1 However, the changing nature, and improvements in flexible work practices, may help.
2 Different parts of the economy are more flexible than others of course.
3 Background: Achieving proficiency in flexible endoscopy requires a great amount of practice.
4 Ms Sage said the government should be more flexible in its approach.
5 Certainly our attitude to creative freedom and game development remains fairly flexible .
1 Do you imagine she has given up communing with nimble young gentlemen?
2 Governments are anything but nimble , let alone open, in their decision-making processes.
3 These nimble operators not only help students cheat their way into universities.
4 Still young and nimble , John Maclean has already had two successful careers.
5 Feel that you have these strong and nimble elements in your body.
1 Risa stood just a moment longer, taking in Lilith's young, lithe form.
2 The leader was tall and lithe , the second very short but stocky.
3 Leesil didn't need a closer look to recognize the tall lithe stature.
4 She was a thing of lithe grace in her soft red silk.
5 To survive we must be ever ready, ever lithe of foot -
1 The Brazilian government needs to be more agile with this, he said.
2 Hisresearch interests include database systems, versioning systems,semantic web, and agile software development.
3 However, it was quite agile on the trail and on the rock.
4 It's a small one, an agile number with a lot of glass.
5 Traditional data centers are not as agile or flexible in meeting demand.
1 Here are the awesome products that will leave you smooth and supple .
2 The running and yoga kept him supple and younger than his years.
3 It was a nice, soft, supple fabric that made shoe cleaning easy.
4 All eyes were centred on the supple , graceful form of the dancer.
5 The whole agile, supple nature of the Greek entered into every fence.
1 Take the eggs, a limber knife and the salt to the stove.
2 I guess I might as well overhaul mine and limber it up.
3 His feet were also ironed, and the chain lashed to a limber .
4 It was not cold and stiff but warm and limber and fleshlike.
5 Now I'm back, drawn by accounts of a lighter, more limber show.
1 Redeemed himself with an almost identical acrobatic effort in the second half.
2 And not, I might add, doing anything unusually acrobatic at the time.
3 We manage to stay inside only by performing some extraordinary acrobatic contortions.
4 They are fast and acrobatic and fight with a savage, flesh-tearing ferocity.
5 Orange red, pale blue, E flat minor, acrobatic , Ariel-like in its changes.
1 To co-ordinate, you can't go far wrong with a willowy patterned neckscarf.
2 Kathleen Beck would be no help: her daughters were willowy , complacent things.
3 It was deeper than her willowy proportions had led him to expect.
4 The light, willowy machines are subject to every caprice of the wind.
5 Her body bent like a willowy bow, the epitome of supple strength.
1 Presently, however, he hove in view, doing fearfully lissom things in mid-floor.
2 He had the lissom hands and cheerful self-absorption that bring success.
3 The right arm lay lissom like a snake across her breast.
4 But this slim Irish girl with the young, lissom body held her own.
5 Her gown hung closely to her lissom and rather full form.
1 The loose-jointed giant turned on his heel and left Brent standing alone.
2 He was rather tall, shaggy, loose - jointed , long-armed, broad-shouldered, and he squinted awfully.
3 We won't even need a loose - jointed confession, because we caught him black-handed.
4 A loose-jointed man in clerical garb came hurrying down the avenue.
5 He was-letus say-something like fourteen years old; long and loose - jointed and towheaded.
1 Persephone nods, then picks herself up and breaks into a loose - limbed jog.
2 Lena sat loose - limbed , her head bowed, visibly sagging in front of me.
3 Now, right now, Jamal performs a loose - limbed , solitary dance among the stone tablets.
4 In uttering those words Herr Schulz seemed suddenly to become loose - limbed and easy.
5 Feeling loose - limbed and relaxed, she began running up the incline toward Warren's house.
1 The broad shoulders, strong arms, deft hands with their long nimble fingers.
2 What caught Owen's eye were the deft touches in crowded penalty areas.
3 He sets to sweeping, and is not very deft in the exercise.
4 It also was a deft ploy of blame-shifting, which exonerates his government.
5 From Civil War hospital experience the father had been a deft bonesetter.
6 They were deft artists in picture-writings, which they etched on the rocks.
7 With a deft movement, she made the card disappear inside her handbag.
8 Such an obvious ploy, that, yet deft for a boy of fifteen.
9 The deft young pianist Frank Harrison increasingly opened out in this piece.
10 Look sharp! The magician's hands, smooth and deft , flashed across the cards.
11 With a deft hand she re-arranged the disordered folds of her dress.
12 The deft Matzai placed the tray on the mahogany at Richard's elbow.
13 Under her deft fingers the instrument became a medium for musical speech.
14 McTosh, the mere man in question, blushed violently behind his deft hand.
15 With admiring eyes, Moira followed the swift movements of his deft fingers.
16 The young girl was deft with her hands, and could work enchantment.
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