He was enamored of its rituals and thought it had a "touch of authentic genius".
He also has a touch of authentic flair that Romney sorely lacks.
Right from the start, the British music press treated the Cure as something of an embarrassment — they were not as political as the Clash, too nice to be the Jam, and their moody despondency did not have the same touch of authentic despair as Joy Division, whose lead singer, Ian Curtis, committed suicide in 1980.
Mr. Grenier imbues Von Pfunz with a jolly charm and touches of authentic humility, and yet neither he nor Ms. Buffini allows the major to become that dubious cliché, the good German who obeys orders but somehow remains a pure soul.
Popular culture is popular for a reason; even the most forgettable and disposable works touch on matters of authentic psychological urgency, despite distorting and falsifying and debasing them.
And a particularly sweet touch is the use of authentic sea chanteys to punctuate the action; Ken Schatz, the show's music director, doubles as a cast member, starting off the songs, generally while dangling from the rigging of the ship that, by this show's end, your imagination can more or less see at full sail.
Next to the fashionable Bar della Pace a bustling, odoriferous open market adds an authentic touch of commedia dell'arte.
Robinson, Coleridge and Wordsworth all wrote poems about the snowdrop, and the presence of the modest flower makes for an authentic touch of local, English Romantic, colour.
This point illustrates that although critics of New Urbanism often paint it as being dominated by traditional architecture, and thus out of touch (or not "authentic"), New Urbanists often say their critics from the world of contemporary architecture are out of touch (or not "contextual") because they are still thinking like (discredited) modernists when it comes to urbanism.
Big Edie, by contrast, remained attached for many years to a musical accompanist (called Gould in the film) who stands in memory as a lost ideal, a lost idol, even a lost love — and her performance of songs on camera for the Maysleses has an authentic, astonishing touch of genius.
Big Edie, by contrast, remained attached for many years to a musical accompanist (called Gould in the film) who stands in memory as a lost ideal, a lost idol, even a lost love and her performance of songs on camera for the Maysleses has an authentic, astonishing touch of genius.
