Despite light touches like the $18,000 motorcycle — which the producers, not PBS using federal funds, bought and which will be sold, Mr. Ives said — the show gives Mr. Sagal the chance to display a more thoughtful side.
And Francis Patrelle — who has a gift for the light touch — seems like the right person to bring scenes from "The Pirates of Penzance," "The Mikado" and "H.M.S. Pinafore" to balletic life as his Sir William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan battle it out over casting, and fend off an unscrupulous producer.
Here is the lovely first description of the protagonist: "The puppy was a rare dark gray, his long coat splashed here and there with lighter touches, like a stormy sea under the moonlight.
Here OnePlus mostly employs a light touch, adding features like Shelf, a page for aggregating apps and widgets just to the left of the homepage.
Performing the music of Harold Arlen (and also telling his story with tangents into the lives of collaborators like Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg), she and her musical partner, Mr. Woodard, bring a refreshingly light touch to heavyweight ballads like "Stormy Weather," "Last Night When We Were Young" and the sadly overlooked ballad from "A Star Is Born," "It's a New World".
The pain quality is stabbing and the pain is typically evoked by sensory stimuli like light touch, brushing teeth, cold wind or eating.
Yes, this is the UK government proposal to manage and run a communications database that will make Chinese attempts to control and monitor its citizens look like "light touch" regulation.
Mr. Abbado has a lovely light touch with a subtle crispness, like a very dry white wine (one was reminded of the quality of transparency that his uncle, Claudio, is said to have brought to the Berlin Philharmonic).
To watch the singer KT Sullivan and her pianist and vocal partner, Larry Woodard, perform the music of Harold Arlen is to discover how a light touch applied to heavyweight songs (like "Stormy Weather," "Over the Rainbow" and "Last Night When We Were Young," to name three) can open them up in a way that a more conventionally stentorian approach rarely does.
Nothing like the light touch of Kylie Jenner's bodyguard on your larynx to make you recognize your place in the ecosystem.
