Sentence examples for surely touched from inspiring English sources

The director Terry O'Reilly's busy production was surely touched by Tesla's eccentricity.

So when Romney spoke about how he met with Democrats once a week as Massachusetts governor to get stuff done, that surely touched a hopeful chord with some voters.

She pulled back the heavy doors to reveal the place where "Elvis's hands surely touched when reaching for some of that leftover cake," and we all swooned.

Fellow Scot Sean Connery has said "Karen Matheson has a throat that is surely touched by God". Her pure, unaffected tones are evocative of Astrud Gilberto's, featured in seminal bossa nova recordings with Stan Getz in the early 1960s.

Francesco Schettino, the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia, claims that "a divine hand surely touched my head," sparing further catastrophe when his cruise ship crashed off the coast of Italy, a leaked letter to his attorney says.

The newest development will surely touch off a major psychological depression all over Spain.

Leading the service, Reverend Erica Wishart, of Tranent Parish Church, told mourners: "This is the kind of tragedy that surely touches everyone who hears about it.

Because cancer will strike one out of every four people, Nathan Perlmutter's "Diary of a Cancer Patient" (Nov. 24) will surely touch many people, as it touched me.

The audience gave Mr. Wallace, Ms. Tan, the creative team and the large cast a prolonged ovation, and this work will surely touch many people.

Although less dramatic than a Supreme Court fight, a flood of lower-court nominations would surely touch off a new round of conflict, with interest groups on both sides primed for battle.

Behind-the-wheel instruction and written drivers' tests surely touch on driving practices that conform to the relevant laws (and identify driving practices that are likely to get a driver a ticket), but much is left to the moral intuitions of the individual human drivers.