Sentence examples for that touched him from inspiring English sources

He had been a regular, but there was a moment among those friends that touched him.

He evokes the things that touched him, the movies, the girls, the radio jingles (Chiquita Banana), reading the Jalna series, the Forsyte saga, "in French," he added.

Yet in a conversation about Mantle with a reporter from The New York Times soon afterward, Mr. Costas said it was not only Mantle's baseball skills that touched him.

His account of the 17th-century Salem witch trials in "The Crucible" (1953) gave him the metaphor he needed to describe McCarthyism, a plague that touched him directly when he was called before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in 1956 for attending meetings of communist writers.

Of course she was a virgin, and that touched him.

She had an air of innocence and sincerity that touched him.

He needed certain things to allow him to express himself and I haven't seen anything that touches him.

He adds that when someone says something that touches him, or when one of his dad's favourite songs comes on the radio, he can still find himself "sidelined with emotion".

In it he has jotted down passages and quotations that had touched him.

"He started apologizing," Benny said, "but then he also said, 'You understand I was trying my hardest,' and that really touched him".

Pena did not react as dramatically as the Yankees' Derek Jeter did last month in the same stadium, where Jeter coaxed a hit-by-pitch call out of a ball that never touched him.