Sentence examples for touch of emotion from inspiring English sources

This is Mr. Weiner in retreat, his face lined and drawn, a touch of emotion in his voice, even as he conveys a version of defiance.

They're very quietly whimsical, distancing themselves just far enough from minimalism so as to allow for a touch of emotion.

He has a touch of emotion because his mother is human, not a Vulcan, but he is taught to repress unwanted emotion and depend on reason and logic.

Parker Posey, working with Allen again after her energetic turn in "Irrational Man," plays a small but important role as an accomplished businessperson, in which the filmmaker seems to invest a disproportionately touching rush of emotion: the role of a true friend whose personal connection is strengthened by a convergence of professional interests.

Under the tent of the Venetian Theater at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts on Saturday night, they played about three songs that more or less held to the tradition of bluegrass, the music that brought the five of them individually to contendership; most of the rest was essentially acoustic prog-rock, cleverly splintered and episodic, with touches of breathless emotion and goofy humor.

The celebrated rock critic Lester Bangs once declared that Patti Smith's 1975 debut, Horses, "touches deep wellsprings of emotion that few artists in rock or anywhere else are capable of reaching … real rock 'n' roll again at last".

As this exchange indicates, the proposed security measures touch a deep chord of emotion in lawmakers who are trying to strike a balance between the image they want to project and the building they want to protect.

If I sing it and I get a feeling of some sort of emotion that really touches my heart, hopefully it will touch your heart when you hear it.

One male teacher touched on this aspect of emotion control, also commenting that losing control would lead to negative emotional reactions, such as embarrassment, which has been shown to be linked to the perception of self-worth (Parrott and Harré 1996; Robbins and Parlavecchio 2006): And we just talk about it in a normal sort of kind of voice.

However, not everyone was touched by the show of emotion.

The tragedy has touched off visceral waves of emotion in this close-knit village of 7,600 people.