Sentence examples for moving lightly from inspiring English sources

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The piece was one that Helen had studied but never performed, and during rehearsal she felt her fingers moving lightly on her thighs.

Added to the miniaturist's skill in rendering the delicate touches of the principals' hidden love, he has an epic sense of space and landscape, moving lightly from Peking to the desert: Ang Lee puts a girdle around his earth in seconds.

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The small ones move lightly.

Ms. Nichols moved lightly at all times.

He moved lightly and valued light-footedness, as he valued sotto voce.

She moved lightly on her damaged feet, like a sleepwalker gliding along the shabby hospital carpet.

She moved lightly, jabbing her foil in the direction of her coach, Buckie Leach.

Rarely in the past has Puccini's music moved lightly and briskly.

He moves lightly and is a more than decent blues singer.

Kaurismäki's movie moves lightly but elegantly and quickly, like a little jockey on a powerful horse.

"My father moved lightly over the earth, scarcely leaving a footprint, scarcely a shadow," he writes in this charming family history.

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