Sentence examples for more touching than from inspiring English sources

Scott showed the make-up team pictures of foetal things, which he thought touching; he wanted to make Mason Verger more touching than monstrous, as he thought of Verger as being someone who hadn't lost his sense of humour...almost sympathetic.

In a review at Anime News Network (ANN), Carlo Santos commented that "the fast-moving events of this first volume combine to form a story of many moods: a gender-bending comedy, but with sci-fi touches, and most of all, a romance more touching than one might expect.

More touching than The Selfish Giant.

It's very funny — and more touching than you'd think.

As it was with "Lili Handel" the effect of the blood was more touching than frightening.

I can't decide if that story is more touching than macabre, or vice versa.

His "sortabiography," "Last Words," written with Tony Hendra, was published last year and was a better, chewier, more touching book than it had any right to be.

In fact, the second act includes a great deal more touching and partnering than the first.

James Merrill wrote after her death, "One has to blush, faced with poems some of us feel to be more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime".

Hollywood itself would be hard-pressed to craft a more touching and heartfelt story than the life story told here in Joey Terrill's oral history.

There is nothing more touching in "The Constant Gardener" than the gravity with which he bends to shake hands with a small Kenyan boy and thank him for attending Tessa's funeral.