Even the bill is friendly, and there's not a touch of modernist "soil" or attitude in sight.
We still carry the scale of this land in our manners and opinions, if no longer the actual touch of its soil.
This notion of rootless cosmopolitanism, of being out of touch with the soil and the mystery of "la France profonde," is an old trope for foreign and Jewish influence.
This paper proposes the grouser mechanism to detect immediate information at the first touching of loose soil.
This eclectic opening quartet sets the tone for the whole volume: elemental, full of hard labour rather than genteel contemplation, in tune with the poor and dispossessed of the Earth, in touch with soil and salt and seed, resistant to the venerable poetic traditions of pastoral ease and picturesque landscape.
Each time one of us touches the soil of this land, we feel a sense of personal renewal.
"The moment Isis fighters touch the soil of the Homs countryside, we will be the first to fight with them at the front.
It expresses being in touch with the soil, of a deep connection to the fundamental source of life, animation and growth.
Yes, the early buds are lovely, as is the first touch of sun, the warm smell of soil, the darling baby animals wet with creation, blah blah blah.
How else to explain the stubborn refusal to allow any of them to touch United States soil, even to stand trial, regardless of whether there's any reason to believe that they're actually terrorists?
On arrival, he bent down to touch the soil in memory of the victims.
