"Smuggle," "convey," or "juxtapose?"

"Smuggle" "convey," or "juxtapose?" I'm thinking "smuggle"
should not have been used in this book review:

http://www.thetripwire.com/reviews/2006/7/13/jami-attenberg-i-instant-love-i-shaye-areheart-crown

"Jami Attenberg's fictional debut, _Instant Love_, is as refreshing
and slightly unnerving as the garishly colored Popsicle melting on its
cover.... The bracing seriousness of purpose underlying the
intermittently fizzy, quip-filled surface provides a backbone to her
work that places it rightfully next to some of today's best writers,
including.... Like these authors, Attenberg is able to smuggle [???]
lasting, resonant moments of pain and clarity along with the humor,
like a Popsicle spiked with tequila, smooth and refreshing at first but
leaving behind a pleasant sting and a bared soul in its wake...."

It seems to me an argument for the legitimacy of "smuggle" in the
context has to be based on a very stretched sense of "smuggle"
being a synonym for "convey;" see OED2's entry for "smuggle,
v.:"

b. To convey, etc., in a stealthy or clandestine manner. Const. with
advs. and preps., as away, in, into, off, out of, through, etc.

1783 W. Gordon Livy v. ii. (1823) 400 Among all that number a single
Plebeian could not be smuggled in. 1816 Scott Old Mort. x, She
smuggled him out of the garrison through the pantry window. 1853
Lytton My Novel xii. xxxi, I have two private bills I want to smuggle
through Parliament. 1872 Black Adv. Phaeton xiii. 177 On our entrance
the document was hastily folded up and smuggled away.

Poll: do AUEers support the usage of "smuggle" in the book review?

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