Crossword-Solution: RETOUCHES 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Dieu même ne le pourrait qu'en établissant une pitoyable distinction entre les manifestations générales et les manifestations particulières de son activité, en reconnaissant qu'il fait de temps en temps des retouches timides à son oeuvre, et en laissant échapper cet aveu humiliant que la lourde machine qu'il a montée a besoin à toute heure, pour marcher cahin-caha, d'un coup de main du fabricant.

Joachim, and the shepherd with the larkspur cap, are both quite safe; the other shepherd a little reinforced; the black bunches of grass, hanging about are retouches.

Campbell Dodgson describes the drawing as in a measure spoilt by retouching, but what convinces him that these retouches are not by Dürer? The pen-work seems to be at once too clever and too careless to have been added by another hand to preserve a fading drawing.] [Footnote 76: XII.

Both, I need hardly say, are unquestionably Shakespeare's; but the fashion in which the matured poet retouches and completes the sketch of his earlier years--composes an oil painting, as it were, from the hints and suggestions of a water-colour sketch long since designed and long since half forgotten--is essentially different from the mere verbal and literal trick of repetition which sciolists might think to detect in the present instance.

These retouches _a secco_ have destroyed to a great extent the atmospheric quality and the relation of the planes in Michael Angelo’s suave true-fresco method, which, as may be seen in the vault, gives the grey half-tints of the flesh-tones in a way only equalled by Andrea del Sarto in fresco and Rembrandt in oil painting.