| 单词 | lightness of touch |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslightness of touch lightness of touch: deftness or skilfulness of execution; freedom from heavy-handedness; subtlety, tactfulness, understatedness. [Originally after French légèreté de la touche (1737 or earlier).] ΚΠ 1754 J. B. tr. A.-J. Dézallier d’Argenville Lives Eminent Mod. Painters 82 They admired the easy boldness of his pictures, and the freedom and lightness of touch that appeared through the whole. 1885 Spectator 30 May 704/2 The lightness of touch that so charmingly characterises the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 1939 D. Daiches Novel & Mod. World (1948) x. 186 Mrs. Woolf has not been able to come back into serious fiction and to bring with her that lightness of touch and delicacy of treatment that distinguished her middle novels. 1954 L.-J. Suenens Edel Quinn ix. 84 She treated the whole situation with that lightness of touch and that infectious good humour which can ameliorate every problem. 1992 City Limits 2 July 59/3 The well-structured story is kept buoyant by pacy direction sustained by a lightness of touch and by the performers' deft handling of some very dense language. 2006 fRoots Mar. 28 His music..has a lightness of touch not heard in the playing of any of the delta bluesmen with whom he is often compared. < as lemmas |
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