A PICTURE frame, usually the final fillip, the last deft gesture, is many things to many people.

The deft gesture and beguiling smile are efficient, vigorous and mechanical.

The deft gestures of Ms. Taylor, who interpreted all words spoken and sung during the evening, made her a dancer in her own right.

With a deft gesture, he rearranged it.

By means of deft gestures, Mr. Marceau can make the empty air seem filled with objects.

(In a deft gesture, Professor Eno snatches the paper)

He made quick, deft gestures with his fingers, the command-level military signals that he and Quentin had used for decades in the Army of the Jihad.

"Yeah, I think I know the guy you mean," the barkeep said, palming the bill with one deft gesture and putting it in his own pocket.

If only you could decode their strange language of fluid shifts and deft gestures, you think, you would know everything about their lives.

Zoren waved him back with a deft apologetic gesture to the mouth that indicated a misprision with language.