I suppose that's because the show is a fable, more or less, a form that demands a certain lightness of touch, and it took me a while to understand that it's a pageant, too.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet I suppose that's because the show is a fable, more or less, a form that demands a certain lightness of touch, and it took me a while to understand that it's a pageant, too.
And Tony Blair, for all his huge first parliamentary majority, was always handicapped by a certain lightness of manner entirely consonant with the verbal slipperiness that later defined him.
There's been a certain lightness of touch, a certain "aww shucks" shtick, perhaps because his intra-day communications skates on the surface, sometimes inelegantly, or perhaps he genuinely doesn't conceive of politics as a cage fight.
There are other listeners who will miss a certain lightness of spirit in the Second's graceful finale and a generally more relaxed tone in the three movements which come before.
He has worked with many Baroque period ensembles and this experience has left its mark: he has a certain lightness of sound, a cleanness of line and a purity of tone, which made for some very refined Schubert.
Puccini always had a certain lightness of touch, but it only ever came out in full in the one-act Gianni Schicchi, an old story, most implausibly taken from Dante, about a crooked servant defrauding his repulsive employers.
In recent months Mr. Gore's friends have repeatedly expressed frustration at his inability to project a certain lightness of being that seems to come so easily for Mr. Bush.
The latter requires a certain lightness of touch, a sensitivity to the fashions of the moment, a careful balance of insight and entertainment.
