I liked Half-Blood Blues but got the feeling that the author didn't really know her lead characters well enough, despite some exquisite touches.

Only Mark Twain could have added that final exquisite touch-- "it was suggested."

At best, however, her Minimalist rectitude has been enlivened by inventive patterning and an exquisite touch.

She moaned at his exquisite touch.

But it is far from secondhand because of Popova's extraordinary way of building space and her exquisite touch.

The devil, we're told, is in the detail: so, too, is delight, in the exquisite touches visible at every turn.

Intimate and exquisite touches accompanied everything they did.

Longfellow had an exquisite touch for occasions of this kind, whether serious or mirthful.

Much of the pleasure in the work is in the exquisite touch and loving attention to surface and mark-making.

The artist's exquisite touch captures all the scene's essentials in vivacious line and translucent tonal washes.