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a magic touch

a special ability to do something very well. The film's great success will no doubt please the 46-year old director who was rumoured to have lost his magic touch.

See also: magic, touch

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She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context Surely the goods of this world, it occurred in an accidental way to Bishop to remark, could scarcely be directed into happier channels than when they accumulated under the magic touch of the wise and sagacious, who, while they knew the just value of riches (Bishop tried here to look as if he were rather poor himself), were aware of their importance, judiciously governed and rightly distributed, to the welfare of our brethren at large. Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context The face was still imperfect; but gradually, by a magic touch, intelligence and sensibility brightened through the features, with all the effect of light gleaming forth from within the solid oak. Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context More results

References in classic literature

She who has once been a woman, and ceased to be so, might at any moment become a woman again, if there were only the magic touch to effect the transformation.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

Surely the goods of this world, it occurred in an accidental way to Bishop to remark, could scarcely be directed into happier channels than when they accumulated under the magic touch of the wise and sagacious, who, while they knew the just value of riches (Bishop tried here to look as if he were rather poor himself), were aware of their importance, judiciously governed and rightly distributed, to the welfare of our brethren at large.

Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context

The face was still imperfect; but gradually, by a magic touch, intelligence and sensibility brightened through the features, with all the effect of light gleaming forth from within the solid oak.

Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

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