Sentence examples for touch of something from inspiring English sources

There is a touch of something sinister about these silky domes.

The other campers seemed suave, polished and mysterious, "like royalty and French movie stars with a touch of something papal".

She should alleviate his loneliness, instead of which it deepens in her presence: those steady eyes, the tawny hair scraped back, and the touch of something programmed in her conduct.

But lighten dessert up with a touch of something floral and the whole thing comes back into focus: sweet, mild camomile alongside a tart pineapple curd perhaps, or a quivering orange-blossom panna cotta with strawberries.

But the books at Measurement Specialties seem to have a definite touch of something.

Using his example, we know that a stick in water that appears broken cannot really be broken, because our intellect knows the truth of the claim 'the harder object is not broken by the touch of something soft that gives way before it' (Ordinatio I.3.1.4.114 115).

And there's an almost touching of something, or toward something.

Popova : To return to the point about cyborgs — and I think both of you touch on something really important here, which is this notion of, what is the human mind supposed to do, or what does it do?

This seem to yield two ways of describing tactile phenomenology: it involves both a feeling of pressure, located roughly at the places on the hands where the glass is touching; and a feeling of something spatially external to the body, located at the point where it touches the body.

Or does the worship of style touch on something deeper, the sense that now, for the first time, Russians can, and must, design their own their lives and that of their country?

All of them touch on something more than just aesthetic beauty.