The girls' names are in most regards diverse, though with a fair share of literary and otherwise artful touches.

The coolness of this official document is an artful touch; its note of disclaimer works to co-opt and disarm the contemporary reader's skepticism.

In one of Mr. Lamos's many artful touches, various fathers, mothers and daughters are played by the same quick-changing actors.

They function as small versions of big drawings, peppered with inadvertently artful touches and drawings within drawings.

In the tree he was took - an old woman having seen him climb up - and Witchem's artful touch transported him!

"The Egyptian government protected us," he emphasized, shrugging off the incident, as he put the last artful touches on his display of grouper, snapper, squid and prawns.

The overall effect was lovely: fine ingredients, culinary skills, artful touches and smooth service that was as cheerful as it was willing.

Presentation is still compelling, but lacks the distinctive artful touches that greeted diners two years ago.

No furniture, just a thin layer of ugly carpeting and institutional-looking blue-gray bulkheads that were desperately in need of some artful touches.

The dynamics are those of fierce thrust and parry with an artful touch.