One of the remarkable things about the movie is the light touch with which Anderson evokes Dodd's demagogy.
In my recollection, Trump was easy to get in touch with, which was one reason why he got so much ink.
How could it compare with a razzling-dazzling iPad or even the steampunked iPod Touch with which the sales assistant scanned the bar code, processed my payment and e-mailed me an invoice?
Critics responded enthusiastically to her compelling portrait of a sensitive, acutely observant girl desperate to find a place in the world, and the light touch with which she handled dark themes.
The subject is a somber one, but she brings to it the same fluidity and grace and even something of the same light, seductive touch with which she earlier described her lifelong love affair with the French and their language.
Fanny Hinton's adventures in love and sophistication are, as ever, narrated in Brookner's exquisite prose, laced with the ironic touch with which she transforms disaster into a special kind of delight.
Think of last weekend, and the instinctive smiles on neutrals' faces in response to 18-year-old Marcus Rashford's two-goal Premier League debut or the exquisite touch with which Riyad Mahrez conjured a goal for Danny Drinkwater.
Somehow, though, the book works pretty well, helped along by the light touch with which Haslett handles the 9/11 attacks and the Bush administration, his clean, compressed scene construction, and his general avoidance of overblown effects.
Abrams, co-writer as well as director, has a history of prodding his audiences into weird responses at weird times (see the wicked comic touch with which he killed off his main villain in Mission: Impossible III).
We see it in the compassionate attentiveness with which he examines the murder victim's body; it's there in the careful grasp with which he caresses the first major suspect; it's present most tentatively in the restrained touch with which he endeavours to comfort the grieving widow.
