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The phrase "a sympathetic touch" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe an action or gesture that conveys understanding, compassion, or kindness towards someone or something. Example: "The author's use of a sympathetic touch in the character's backstory made the readers feel more connected to her struggles."
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A sympathetic touch from a doctor leaves people with the impression that the visit lasted twice as long, compared with estimates from people who were untouched.
The director, Benjamin Morgan (who wrote the screenplay with Mr. Burnam), answers these questions with skillful storytelling, a sympathetic touch with his nonprofessional actors, and dispiriting ambivalence about the viability of oppositional youth culture.
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but hasn't weathered the years as well, and I'm not even sure the sympathetic touch of Mr. Sher could have made a powerful case for it.
Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch.
You'd think it would be difficult to give a guarded, often angry character like Irisa sympathetic touches, but Leonadis makes it look easy.
As he described the intricacies of his plan — adding sympathetic touches to the fake classmate, making fake Lori Drew a fierce defender of her own daughter, calibrating every detail to the emotional register of his audience — he sounded not so much a sociologist as a playwright workshopping a set of characters.
What their sound has lost in rough edges, it's gained in subtle, sympathetic touches – the shadings of tremolo guitar on the title track, strings on You're My Waterloo – and in a tightening-up of the songwriting.
Brutus's dilemma would be of interest to the first audience, and one can see that although he might be wrong Shakespeare wanted him to be liked before he was condemned, adding to the portrait such sympathetic touches as his relationships with the boy Lucius and with Portia.
On the other hand the FL Qs goal of separatism touched, and still touches, a sympathetic nerve.
He is wide ranging, an adept soloist with a fine touch, a sympathetic rhythm section player and an especially good accompanist for singers.
He is wide ranging, an adept soloist with a fine touch, a sympathetic rhythm-section player and an especially good accompanist to singers.
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