Sentence examples for quiet touch from inspiring English sources

Ms. Coltrane sounds as if she's most comfortable playing the organ or the harpsichord: with a quiet touch, she rolls arpeggiated chords in rubato, even when the rest of the group is playing in defined time.

This "Sunlight Report", as her office termed it, was praised by a New York Times editorial in December 2006 as being a "quiet touch of revolution" in a non-transparent system.

There's a barely audible whisper of "release me," and later, a second that's just a gasp of air which adds a quiet touch to the already well-painted picture.

Her repressed fury comes out in quiet touches of theatrical grandeur.

The Grand Prix, effectively second place, went to Xavier Beauvois's "Of Gods and Men," a quiet, touching French drama, loosely based on actual events, about Cistercian monks imperiled by Muslim fundamentalists as civil war begins sweeping across Algeria in the 1990s.

When employees have the choice of where to work around the office - whether in collaborative areas or in quiet touch-down areas, they are in control of the balance of how and where they work.

Every other week on Food52, Anna Hezel talks about the innovations, decorations, and other quiet touches that make a party memorable.

Yet a sense of awe permeates each individual frame -- and individual body -- showcasing quiet touches and reclining figures with little or no context.

Mapped with quiet, poetic touch, their scenes together have the offbeat comic tone of an indie film like "Juno".

Walsh unfolds the practical details of bootleggers' nocturnal maneuvers with a quiet comical touch, yet the over-all tone of the drama — concerning foxhole friends who end up as partners in crime but rivals in love — evokes the flailings of unformed men whom a heedless society tossed in harm's way and then cast aside.

Her quiet grace touched all who knew her.