Sentence examples for closely touched from inspiring English sources

But being a first-generation Brit, first-wave punk and Jewish in a time still closely touched by the second world war did have its conundrums.

Still, most people, even many of those most closely touched, will recover, say psychologists and psychiatrists who study the legacy of violence.

It's really great when you come in a limo and you can look out the window at all the homeless people". No band in recent memory has so closely touched the sources of our generation's frustrations as Pearl Jam, and that's why this album was so greatly anticipated.

In his book on Tiananmen*, James Miles, a BBC reporter, points out just how many people were closely touched by the killings in Beijing on June 3rd and 4th 1989: "Let us say, very conservatively, that 5,000 civilians were killed or injured that night.

Jason Beverly attended the hour-and-a-half meeting as a way to become part of the discussion on homelessness, and in part because homelessness has closely touched his life through his own financial struggles and those of his friends.

Oxidative stress is closely touched with the regulation of proteasome's proteolytic activity.

Sophie pulled reading glasses out of her handbag and leaned in more closely, touching the frame.

Quite clearly, these are matters that closely touch the author himself.

At first the sample was put on the cooling plate in order to ensure the bottom of the sample to closely touch the top of the cooling plate.

"It seems that when birth and death so closely touch each other, society would rather bury it than figure out how to support those suffering from the trauma of it".

More, I found the series' flashbacks to Caine's Shaolin days to more closely touch the culture and philosophy that gave rise to the Chinese martial arts I teach and practice every day.