Sentence examples for a finger on things from inspiring English sources

"It's hard putting a finger on things," Lade said.

Engaged middle managers may have a finger on the pulse of things more than anyone else, and on-the-ground workers can often tell you how it really is.

But at the same time, he has an extraordinary ability to dramatize an issue by "putting his finger on things".

As a politician, "Haider puts his finger on things that are wrong and exaggerates them," Ms. Rohrer said.

Mr. Hurt, who before London had not acted in a Beckett play, said he was fascinated by how the playwright "constantly finds a way of putting his finger on things that are universal".

Which leaves us with Sadness, an emotion with a purpose no one can quite put a finger on, who is given to saying things like, "Crying helps me slow down and obsess about the weight of life's problems".

"It's difficult to put your finger on things at the moment, things are bit of a mess," Nicholls told BBC Sport.

Jeremy puts his finger on things and touches nerves in the national psyche.

The famous "Lubitsch touch" is the way he puts his finger on things off-screen that he can't show on-screen, and Hawks's comedies, with their scintillating and borderline-smutty symbols of unexpressed desires and deeds, let us know precisely what he wasn't allowed to tell us.

It's a pretty hard thing to put a finger on," he said.

But, he added, "what has increased the most, and this has been the hardest thing to put a finger on through open source research, is the number of what U.S. military might call 'catastrophic' I.E.D. attacks".