Sentence examples for lightly holding from inspiring English sources

Now regard another extreme of Piero's range: "Madonna and Child with a Dove" (circa 1490-1500) shows a lovely but rather ordinary young woman in rustic dress, lightly holding a naked, squirming Baby Jesus.

Bryson's great skill is that of lightly holding the reader's hand throughout; building up such trust that topics as recondite as atomic weights, relativity and particle physics are shorn of their terrors.

The tilt of Sinatra's hat, on the cover of the LP, and the position of his hands (one lightly holding a woman's, the other motioning with jerked thumb, as if a trip to Capri were as swift and painless as hitching a ride) inform us that, thanks to airplanes, the world is now his, and ours, for the asking.

Remove the brush from the water, squeeze the water out, then lightly holding the handle of the brush, tap the ferrule gently on the tip of your work shoe.

These superstitions are not lightly held.

That means looking for places where sovereignty is lightly held and rarely contested, like rural communities.

Our tactic was "leapfrogging," or bypassing an enemy-held island to land troops on another, more lightly held island.

The plan was for Burnside's troops to move south from nearby Falmouth to seize lightly held Fredericksburg and its railroad.

But the Revel crab cakes, served on a spicy red-lentil salad, are indeed first rate: flavorful, meaty and lightly held together.

I'm told that my grandfather would snooze in his home office chair, waking up when his lightly held keys hit the floor.

The amused grandeur that Lee liked to carry about his person, and that hint of immense forces lightly held in check — everything cohered behind the priestly robe, the waterfall of beard, and the seismic rumble of the voice.