"lively touch" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is vibrant and full of life. For example: "The artist added a lively touch to the composition with a bright splash of color."
The action-ready, long-limbed presence that made her a natural for the spy series "Alias" lends a lively touch of the tomboy to Roxane.
Up close, however, one discovers they are painted with a deft, lively touch so that the extreme detailing reads not as cold-blooded copying but as an affectionate alertness to the world's surfaces.
Up close, however, one discovers that they are painted with a deft, lively touch so that the extreme detailing reads not as cold-blooded copying but as an affectionate alertness to the world's surfaces.
In the photo gallery the music is a fun and lively touch.
Trees that grow well indoors, including rubber tree and fiddle leaf fig, can provide a soft, lively touch to a corner that integrates it seamlessly into your decor.
It's a lively, touching story, full of sadness and optimism, drawn with an unaffected simplicity.
In the cafe, plastic tablecloths from Morocco and cushions in printed fabrics from China add lively touches.
The theme of a workaholic parent (usually a father) learning what is really important in life was exhausted long ago, but Mr. Benson and Matt Williams, the director, bring some lively touches to it.
And more dishes could have used the lively touches that enhanced the excellent truffle white tuna (five gossamer cuts of fish dressed in citric yuzu mixed with fragrant truffle oil) or the Japanese crudo, a diner's choice of fish lightly marinated in sweet-sour rice vinegar.
These lively touches would leave The Frighteners looking more like a more frantic Beetlejuice if Jackson's film weren't so wearyingly overcrowded.
The playful spookiness of Mr. Jackson's direction provides a lively, light touch, a gesture that doesn't normally come to mind when Tolkien's name is mentioned.
