Sentence examples for a graceful touch from inspiring English sources

Mr. Chen played the selections with a graceful touch and attention to the score's rhythmic precision, and his reading brought out the music's hypnotic charm if not always its variety, an element already constricted by the decision to excerpt.

Mostly, though, his focus was on the music of Fauré, Poulenc, Milhaud, Dukas and Saint-Sa ns, which he played with a graceful touch and an incomparable ear for coloration and nuance.

It was a tough sell at first: though the arrangement (which transposes the work from G major to D) puts the opening bars high in the cello's range, and though Mr. Wispelwey played with a graceful touch, the cello version inevitably sounds lumbering compared with the light-hued violin original.

It is handled with such a graceful touch, and is such] an intrinsic part of the actual story (rather than just some metafictional flourish), that the reader simply accepts it: that another layer of pleasure in a book has the rare quality of being funny without being silly, serious without being solemn, and powerfully moving without being either sentimental or coercive.

Although he brought a graceful touch and a gently rocking quality to Mazurka No. 3 in C, and he lightened up elsewhere in the Mazurkas, his accounts of the Scherzo and the "Revolutionary" Étude, the first of his four Chopin encores, were as impetuous and hard-driven as his Beethoven and Schumann.

Hong tells the story in long and dialogue-filled takes, done in a soft black-and-white that feels like pencil drawings, to extract deep and earnest confessions with a graceful touch that shudders with the life-shaking emotions at their core.

Ms. Adichie describes these tribal distinctions with a strong, graceful touch.

Despite his relatively slight stature, Yang played the bolder passages with great power, yet he also showed the lightest touch — a graceful, caressing touch — on the more delicate passages.

Mazursky applies a light and graceful touch to matters of intimate agony, which he probes in insightfully crafted dialogue scenes with Erica's three best friends (Kelly Bishop, Patricia Quinn, and Linda Miller), her daughter, Patti Lisa Lucass), and her therapist (Penelope Russianoff).

The strain of rich and anguished feeling in this movie, enhanced by Philip Miller's music and Mr. Young's color-saturated, luminous images, is downright exhilarating, and Mr. Dosunmu manages it with a graceful, nimble touch.

This can be a graceful, romantic touch of approval and acceptance for her habit.