Sentences with light-handed
light-hand·ed
L l - At the other extreme, the view has been that light-handed 'regulation' is a euphemism for 'handsoff'.
- Did you know that the light-handed, 'less is more' approach works best even for heavy acne and deep wrinkles?
- The children are so quick and light-handed, the victim doesn't feel a thing.
- He seemed likeable, a scrupulous, slow young man, without the disengagedness of Considine, that light-hearted, light-handed seducer who (Edward had come to believe) even shot lions negligently.
- Philip Penna, of Indiana, a veteran of many labor controversies, roundly scored the United Mine Workers for their light-handed treatment of their contracts.
- I looked at the round bows of the sloop, and then at the old sails and the light-handed crew.
- Another of his duties was to keep a sharp look-out for light-handed customers, besides other occupations which time, as Mr. Blackley said, would teach him.
- Fruit jellies offer an excellent, light-handed way of making vibrantly fresh desserts to round off a rich meal.
- . . . are such as the cotton, woolen, and shoe factories, wherein the use of machinery has made mere human tenders of the operatives employed; or in such industries as the making of garments, wherein light-handed and comparatively unskilled labor, such as that of women and children, embodies the very worst features of an utterly selfish competion, and leaves the worker almost entirely at the mercy of "sweaters" and "middle-men. "
- Some who had sold their outfits at Skagway, and pushed on light-handed so as to get through, began to appropriate new outfits on the other side.
- At first merely fidgety, and managed with the greatest delicacy by the English postilion, then ill-tempered and capricious, swerving from side to side, necessitating in self-defence the use of the whip-—“ But only gently and light-handed, . . "