The building is described as "color-spattered," and indeed it would be a lively touch against the bland office towers in London's Docklands complex.

These lively touches would leave The Frighteners looking more like a more frantic Beetlejuice if Jackson's film weren't so wearyingly overcrowded.

Up close, however, one discovers they are painted with a deft, lively touch so that the extreme detailing reads not as cold-blooded copying but as an affectionate alertness to the world's surfaces.

The diary is rather colourless, no doubt like its author, but there are some shrewd comments and occasional lively touches.

A calm floral print that mixes beige and blue-green, the basic colors of the collection, adds a lively touch in blouses, skirts and pants.

For Prince Hotaru there was a lute, for Genji a thirteen-stringed koto, for Kashiwagi, who had a quick, lively touch, a Japanese koto.

I do remember in this shepherd boy Some lively touches of my daughter's favour.

In the cafe, plastic tablecloths from Morocco and cushions in printed fabrics from China add lively touches.

The playful spookiness of Mr. Jackson's direction provides a lively, light touch, a gesture that doesn't normally come to mind when Tolkien's name is mentioned.

Paintings done by Mr. Vreeland add a lively touch to the walls.