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light-handed

ADJECTIVE
  1. having a metaphorically delicate touch
    the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive

How To Use light-handed In A Sentence

  • Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose, all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, light-handed, heavy-hearted. The White Silence
  • In a light-handed manner that contrasted with the influence he wielded, he was with us at nearly every step of our growth. A Maecenas for the Internet Age
  • I want to protest against the light-handed manner in which this case is being handled. THE OUTSIDER
  • Any moment now, we expect Rudy Giuliani, who outdid Romney by spending $59 million for just one delegate, to share some of his own financial wisdom, probably spicing it up with his usual light-handed touch of 9/11 doomsday. Worst Week Ever: Republicans Unhinged
  • Even with Pigg's light-handed, Love, American Style direction, the production nonetheless does make us examine the things we do on autopilot, as we grind through our days. James Scarborough: 7 at W. 70th, Little Fish Theatre
  • the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive
  • The problem, said Neil Carman, clean air program director for the Sierra Club in Texas, is the TCEQ's light-handed regulatory approach. The Center for Public Integrity: Enviro Groups Prepare to Sue Nation's Largest Oil Refinery
  • The Schoolhouse Restaurant in Cannondale, Connecticut is one of those sweet, bucolic little places that serves local, seasonal food prepared by its light-handed and talented chef/owner, Tim LaBant. Elissa Altman: The Schoolhouse Restaurant's Email Snafu: How One Mistake Created a Social Network in Less Than an Hour
  • The transition from the heavy-handed practices of woodcraft to the light-handed techniques of Leave No Trace can be read as a logical response to the tremendous growth in wilderness recreation during the twentieth century.
  • Key elements of such a fusion include a sweeping overhaul of personal and corporate taxes, a light-handed approach to regulating companies that invest heavily in innovation, stronger constraints on Medicare and Medicaid spending, new investments in technical education to supply workers for advanced manufacturing, and the transformation of our archaic K-12 school system by choice and digital learning. Will Marshall: Obama Needs New Growth Story
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