"graceful touch" is a perfectly acceptable phrase in written English.
You might use it to describe a soft, gentle, and skillful manipulation of something delicate or fragile. For example, you might say, "The artist worked with a graceful touch, manipulating the clay into a beautiful sculpture."
Ms. Adichie describes these tribal distinctions with a strong, graceful touch.
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.
Ellison's own speech was a long one, full of graceful touches.
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.
Cora's strong, graceful hands touch on the greatest tragedies of our history, as the train's different destinations call to mind Roman crucifixions, The Diary of Anne Frank, the horrors of Auschwitz, as well as a golden age of art, poetry and majesty.
This can be a graceful, romantic touch of approval and acceptance for her habit.
These fables and tales in verse, influenced by the French poet Jean de La Fontaine, are characterized by neatness of form, graceful lightness of touch, and a feeling for rhythm that sets Hagedorn apart from other poets of his time.
