Some people in the audience watched the performers with perhaps a touch of envy.
With an apparent touch of envy, Trump added, "He took control of Egypt.
My colleagues greeted it with shock and awe — and just a touch of envy.
(As Berlin has really cheap rents, the Japanese writers were not without a touch of envy).
If Washington heard about Hale's final words, it must have been with satisfaction and even a touch of envy.
If you detect a touch of envy, it's because, for all their radicalism and their misfortune, Pussy Riot has become a sweeping pop success.
My affection for her is the type I'd have for a little sister (if I had one): pure delighted love, with only a touch of envy.
And then with a touch of envy they wondered: why don't we live in a house like that ourselves, a place that must be full of stories?
The North Vietnamese negotiators, Kissinger writes admiringly (and with a touch of envy), were "subtle, disciplined and patient," especially his opposite number, Le Duc Tho.
"He doesn't have to choose," said Will Feltus, a media strategist for the 2004 campaign of President Bush, with more than a touch of envy.
There is relief but also more than a touch of envy in the anonymous office worker's imagining of the exceptional heroic self that might have been.
