Buoyed by an easy, natural chemistry, Paul's scenes with Laura are exceptionally touching, the sadness of the road not taken easily eclipsing the chaos of the path at hand.
Near the end of the Neue Galerie's exceptionally touching exhibition of late works by the Swiss Symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918), you come to a small, chapel-like room with walls draped in purple velvet and ecclesiastical music playing quietly in the background.
This one-day picture, dispatched by the artist on June 6 , 1967 realized an astonishing $23.04 million, even though it is done in Picasso's most provocative, cartoon-style manner, with an exceptionally grim touch.
Focusing his attention on an exceptionally precise touch at the keyboard — at times he seemed to be weighing the physical properties of each note — he willed himself into the background.
It is fortunate, given Mr. Presnal's proclivity for stewy, meaty concoctions, that he has both an exceptionally light touch and an instinct for applying arcane ingredients — like the homemade pine needle oil with the marrow cacciatore, or a citrusy Asian XO sauce with confit chicken wings — that introduce a fat-cutting edge.
But it is the deft, exceptionally light touch that Fiennes brings to moments both comic and serious that gives this engine its fuel.
A second exhibition, with exceptionally powerful new photographs by Mr. Martinez touching on the same theme, opens at the gallery on Nov. 4.
His 15-strong band prove exceptionally skilful, when they get the chance, touching on bossa, soft rock and soul.
Christopher Reid's Nonsense (Faber £12.99) was, as usual with this exceptionally gifted poet, a reliable source of pleasure – grave, deft, subtle, oblique, surprising, touching.
Evil and suffering can affect humans' lower selves but can only exceptionally, in the thoroughly depraved, touch their true, higher selves and so cannot interfere with the real well-being of the philosopher.
The surfaces, touched by no brush, became exceptionally delicate.
