Sentence examples for touches gently from inspiring English sources

'KIN' Bathsheba Doran's ensemble comedy-drama was an evocative exploration of the manner in which each human life touches gently on innumerable others.

Seventh-inning stretch, eyes on the dugout: Ortiz grabs a helmet and heads for the bat rack, pausing briefly in front of Mike Lowell, whom he touches gently on the shoulder.

It is also probably their only experience of being touched gently and lovingly or of being the focus of an adult's attention in a positive way.

With Warholian acuity she captures the ennui, narcissism and infantile hedonism of modern mass culture in works of touching, gently satiric, faux-naïve intimacy.

What moved Ted, mashed some delicate glassware in his chest, was the quiet of their interaction, the absence of drama or tears as they gazed at each other, touching gently.

Cilla mediated while they bickered from opposite ends of the sofa, or encouraged them kindly, as they blushed, knees touching gently with the promise of what they might have found.

Then she would accept being touched, gently and briefly.

And if you're touched gently, with love and care, you will feel incredible.

He still brings other producers into the fold, but now he uses their touch gently, in service of the general fragility that dominates the record.

A few years later, Jenkins recalls how Widmerpool recoiled when touched gently on the arm by Berthe, a French girl encountered during the pair's summer sojourn at La Grenadière shortly after leaving school.

Otherwise (n = 6 instances), the spider was touched gently with the tip of a pencil, which made the spider hang from a drag line and triggered the release of a silk line.