"But a plus is that it is a touch of drama in an ordinary day". However, Marilyn Morrison of Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia does not consider the added drama a plus.
If Abstract Expressionism is about the preciousness of the painter's touch, Mr. Hammons's arrangements of raddled plastics and frayed blankets are about the touch of ordinary bodies laboring, sweating, sleeping, trying to stay warm.
"For now, comrades, the objectives that we established have unfortunately not been achieved in the capital," the young army colonel said, with a touch of bravado that resonated deeply among ordinary people.
With a little imagination, a touch of creativity, and some muscle an ordinary backyard space can be transformed into a magical oasis.
It has a nice touch of the ordinary: the discovery in the mundane urban environment of a car park.
Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the Democratic leader, said now that the public might be beginning to pay attention to the contest, Mr. Gore should hammer away at a theme he introduced at the convention: how the policies of a president can touch the lives of ordinary Americans.
Ronaldinho would have given Brazil something it lacked almost entirely — a little bit of magic, a little touch of the unexpected, something out of the ordinary.
The two taxes were also seen as symptomatic of a government out of touch with ordinary working people.
In 1992, George H.W. Bush's seeming amazement at a supermarket scanner provided an enduring image of a privileged man out of touch with ordinary life.
But the attempt to suggest that the crowd had booed a respected sporting opponent rather than the prime minister clearly touched a chord with thousands of ordinary people.
