Later that evening, I recall the frugal repast portrayed in one of the museum's gems -- an intensely touching 13th-century Last Supper.
First off, though, there's Dominic Cooke's electric and intensely touching revival of Chicken Soup with Barley, Wesker's 1958 drama that has the distinction of being one of the very few plays in English that offers an empathetic treatment of a communist family.
Then when the truckers leave "She called 'Hey, you left too much money!' 'So what's it to you?' they replied". It sounds hokey - but it's not, not the way Cash sang it, and certainly not in its first incarnation - the song is based on an intensely touching scene from Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.
But because so much of its surface is coated with the marinade, it is exceptionally delicious (especially with a spoonful of the intensely minty sauce, touched with garlic and vinegar, that we serve with it).
Rather than simply relaying raw sensory input to the brain, as has long been assumed, neurons in the fingertips also calculate when and how intensely an object is touched, and information about the object's shape, a study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests.
"Our work has shown that two types of first-order tactile neurons that supply the sensitive skin at our fingertips not only signal information about when and how intensely an object is touched, but also information about the touched object's shape". The sensitivity of this system depends on the layout of a neuron's highly-sensitive zones in the skin.
But few viewers lucky enough to see it will deny that the experience is intensely moving and touches the soul.
The dilemma is acute with a novel like "The Human Stain," which has now been filmed by Robert Benton, and in which a number of intensely loaded incidents touch off long, intemperate broadsides of speech.
When the Peabody Award-winning documentary Oxycontin Express, aired, Mariana heard from many who were touched by her intensely intimate glimpse into the life of addicts.
Textures of intensely sensitive touch, making forms quiver and squirm, are the most eloquent element in late Gorky.
Those two faces are incredible in juxtaposition: Russell is worldly, amused, intensely in touch: Monroe is sublimely unfocused and beatific.
