iOS smartly recognizes when your hand is placed on either side of the screen (when portrait-aligned) and recognizes that this isn't a touch meant for input purposes.
For example, it could head off situations where a PI offers what he intends as a friendly word and a friendly touch, meant to reassure a trainee but actually creeping them out.
"Almost nothing" is a trimming touch, meant to please everyone; and it is of a piece with Burns's canting hope that America "ultimately finds a way home with honor, and without destroying all it went to Iraq to achieve".
Though other parts of WaterColor are "built out," their lot is in a section that shows only two signs of development: sewer hookup pipes emerging from the ground, and signs touting the names of the owners and their children (a homey touch meant to create community, but these days seeming spectral).
What does out of touch mean, exactly?
Why do I need to fiddle with a touch screen meant for navigating the earth in order to turn up the volume on Elvis Costello?
Films like The Go-Between (1971), Tess (1979) and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) concentrated on serious-minded sexual subtexts; the deftness of Merchant Ivory's comic touch meant A Room With a View operated almost independently of historical context, and more like a mainstream romantic comedy.
Pictures of the two sisters as young girls were shown on screen at the inquiry as Ms Pearce's statement was read out, saying: "The time we had back in touch meant a great deal.
Apple's iPhone 5 is sure to get most of the attention today, but the Cupertino company's press event also saw the unveiling of a drastically revamped iPod Touch meant (once again) to bring iOS to the masses.
Yet it's genuinely horrifying too: hell's gothic architecture is decorated with mangled corpses, while Paula appears in troubling visions that see her gruesomely dismembered or turned into a shrieking, psychotic pursuer whose touch means instant death.
There was a time when I believed touch meant being hurt.
