Sentence examples for contained a touch of from inspiring English sources

The result was a pretty collection that veered slightly too far into a coquettish, full-skirted vacation look of the 1950s, but contained a touch of eccentricity in a giant organza hat and modern elegance in filmy check gingham.

Those glancing-away looks — do they contain a touch of slyness?

It has been suggested the work contains "a touch of sadism".

He passionately believes that all men are brothers, and that all of humanity contains a touch of the divine.

To make an Amis-like connection: his praise for Elizabeth Jane Howard, his one-time stepmother and a novelist herself, contains a touch of nostalgia.

"His innings of 60 was a great foil for Michael Lumb, who is in imperious touch at the moment but his innings did contain a touch of farce as he was spilled three times between 86 and 99.

Such poems often contain a touch -- or more than a touch -- of melodrama, of the brutal tragedies of Seneca that Hughes adapted for the modern stage.

It's a marvelous tribute to an unflagging imagination and intellect, and we are delighted to contain just a touch of it in these pages.

Her understated, beautifully layered performance suggests the spark of defiance under Gaenor's prim exterior and fans it into a reckless impul siveness that eventually deepens into an enfolding womanly passion containing just a touch of fanaticism.

It was much more polished than some of his speeches, and also contained an unexpected touch of humanity.

A rich, thickened seafood bisque, cream-based with a touch of tomato, contained a trove of scallops, shrimp, squid and kernels of sweet corn topped with green herbs and wafers of Parmesan.