The phrase "a touch of this" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a small amount or hint of something, often in a descriptive or figurative context.
Example: "The dish was enhanced with a touch of this exotic spice, giving it a unique flavor."
Alternatives: "a hint of this" or "a dash of this".
Perhaps a writer can't be great without a touch of this kind of aggression, this intolerance of artistic error.
A touch of this starter button begins a greeting that can include anything from personal photos to a navigation screen.
A touch of this awkwardness distinguishes one of the best Gilbert Stuarts in any of these museums, Boston's double portrait "Francis Malbone and His Brother Saunders," executed around 1773, the year Stuart turned 18.
A touch of this severe judgment still clings to the Florentines, in whose makeup one tends to miss the exuberance and warmth associated with Italians in other towns and regions.
I've got at least a touch of this characteristic, which is so defining that simply typing the term "sibilant s" into Google yields this video, in which a guy named Matt Pocock offers therapy for getting rid of the sound.
In moments when we engage in an activity that corresponds to our deepest inclinations, we might experience a touch of this: We feel as if the words we write or the physical movements we perform come so quickly and easily that they are coming from outside us.
Some observers, noting the recent spate of actual, attempted, and threatened assassinations of judges, perceived a touch of this-worldly incitement; Senator Frank Lautenberg, of New Jersey, suggested that DeLay might have violated a statute outlawing such threats against federal judges.
And there was a touch of that, about this from Iñaki Williams, which may just have been the best of the lot.
There's more than a touch of the Interstellar about this, but then, there has to be.
Oh for a touch of that optimism, for this neck of the woods is more than a little nervy about the whole thing now.
Among the peat bogs, streams, lakes, wildflowers, ferns and bog cotton like fairy silk, there is a touch of the exotic about this landscape.
