Sentence examples for a sudden touch from inspiring English sources

Yet with the exception of one witty aside and a sudden touch of melancholy in the last moments of Jeremy Laverdure's "Empty Every Night," the program was a flaccid and dispiriting affair.

"It looks as if its leaves had been sensitive, and had risen and shut themselves into a bud at some sudden touch, and would presently fall back again into their wild flow," he wrote.

Brook responded that theatre is about the moment, when, 'all of a sudden, something touches everyone'.

All of a sudden, guys are touching her ass and telling her the gross things they want her to do.

The technology changes from decade to decade, but a sudden uninvited image touches our conscience and we think about things differently.

"I'm swimming, and all of a sudden I'm feeling my hand touch the bottom," he said.

"I had had no contact with Sarah after I left and then, all of a sudden, she got in touch with me.

But all of a sudden Leonardo DiCaprio got in touch with Walter Parkes, saying, 'This is my favorite book, I want to play this guy.' " The part was especially interesting, Mr. DiCaprio said, because it captured "what it's like for a young man who doesn't have the right guidance in his life, who's let out on his own and is like Icarus".

Gloomy stuff, but he's followed by Laurence Binyon, who finds a positive undertow to the city: "A sudden consolation, a softening light, touched me: the streets alive and bright, with hundreds each way thronging, on their tide".

Dressed in a bright-blue hoodie and matching baseball cap, the British singer kept moving but came to a sudden halt when the guy touched Martin's arm and explained that he wasn't giving away his product for free.

The Air Mali (Air Maybe, more commonly) plane was about to touch down, but a sudden sandstorm obscured the runway.