Often warm and witty in private, capable of touches of grace (such as when he telephoned Peter Mandelson to offer condolences on his mother's death at the peak of one of their poisonous feuds), intellectually curious and literate, he could also be calculating, rivalrous, single-mindedly ambitious and witheringly aggressive to those perceived, not always rightly, as his opponents.
Although Spain, in recent times, have been capable of touching a higher standard, their terror was of letting themselves down after coming all this way at Euro 2008.
The constant throughout is his splendid voice: a tremulous alto capable of touching anyone who has ever felt marginalized or fragile.
Nastradamus's title track and Project Windows, a lament for the scenes witnessed from his flat in Queensbridge, would be standouts on most of his other albums, while I Am's highlights are also capable of touching the sky.
But in an arid year in a combustible region, after decades of unremitting fire suppression and fuel buildup, every low-pressure system worries firefighters because the lightning it carries is capable of touching off an enormous number of widely separated fires.
Rich theater, capable of touching the heart, tickling the funny bone and tapping wells of recognition, sympathy and suspense while its music sets feet to tapping and hands to clapping, is attesting to the vitality of the Folksbiene Yiddish Theater as it begins its 85th season.
In an essay in the daily O Estado de São Paulo, the novelist Ignácio de Loyola Brandão described Ms. Braga's performance as moving and magnificent and called "A Port for Elizabeth Bishop" a "brilliant creation" that is "capable of touching, bruising, provoking, disturbing, delighting, perturbing and questioning" theatergoers.
What events in the history can be capable of touching the motions of the people?
We promised you a year ago that AOL and Verizon would aggressively work to build a mobile media company capable of touching billions of consumers and becoming one of the top companies in the world in the digital media industry.
The elasticity modulus determined using a spherical probe represents the average elastic response of the cell, whereas a sharp tip is capable of touching the surface right between the cytoskeletal fibers, or directly on the top of the fibers, thereby substantially increasing the extent to which the heterogeneity of local elastic properties may be elucidated.
He won an Oscar for that performance, and one of the most popular actors working in the cookie cutter romantic comedy portion of film, transformed into an actor capable of touching audiences on a profound and emotional level.
