"modest touch" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe something that is small or subtle in its effect or impact. Example: The painting lacked grandeur, but it had a modest touch that drew the viewer's eye to its delicate details.
It is a modest, touching male answer to "Rose's Turn" in "Gypsy," a perfect moment.
In the living room, Glenn Gissler was responsible for seemingly modest touches that pack considerable punch.
"Yohen," which opens the 30th season of the Pan Asian Repertory Theater, is a modest, touching drama, loaded with meaning.
"Lily & Madeleine," produced by Paul Mahern, fleshes out the sisters' sound with modest touches: a cello, an electric bass, a muffled kick drum, a snare.
The story of how this collection — a large portion of which now resides at the National Gallery of Art in Washington — came to be is the subject of Megumi Sasaki's modest, touching documentary, "Herb & Dorothy".
The blarney runs thick in what A. O. Scott described as a "modest, touching film" in The New York Times, though the sweetness is tempered somewhat by the bursting, naturalistic performance of Samantha Morton as the actor's wife.
For the Depression-weary strivers who moved there in the 1940's and 50's, the Grand Concourse was the Champs-Élysées of the Bronx, a broad boulevard of stylishly sedate Art Deco apartment buildings that filled their craving for modest touches of class like sunken living rooms.
The seemingly modest clash touched on the biggest domestic challenge of our times.
Most of the new productions have trimmed fairly traditional approaches in modest stylized touches, and have kept a respectful focus on the letter of the text.
