"a touching idea" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe an idea or concept that elicits feelings of emotion or warmth. Example: The speech given by the CEO was filled with touching ideas about community service and giving back to those in need.
Buffets throw out a lot of food, and another, only lightly touched idea is Costco's and Wal-marts.
Although most of these crazes now seem tragically quaint (key party, anyone?), the '70s were also characterized by a touching receptiveness to new ideas.
As I write this I'm looking at my original (well my brother's) copy of the book, well thumbed and much loved, which I return to from time to time to remind me of how funny and touching an idea it was.
Our own Rebecca Keegan spoke to Beckinsale recently, and it's an engaging read, touching on ideas of how audiences pigeonhole performers and what those performers can do to play with our perceptions of them.
"You can smell, see and touch an idea that has been executed with letterpress".
That final couplet contains the nugget of an idea Shakespeare often touched on – an idea that helps explain why his audiences at the original Globe and at the Blackfriars were so loyal, and why he continues to pluck at us centuries later.
"I think that the only reason that he took me in his lab is that nobody else wanted to touch this idea," he recalled.
The real subject of the work is American utopianism, a double-edged phenomenon that in Mr. Queenland's light-touch, idea-rich art retains its prickly complexity.
After popcorning out-of-touch ideas like Fireball and Four Loko around, we finally settled on Casamigos tequila because George Clooney recently sold the company for a billion dollars and he looks kinda douchey in the ads for it.
