Sentence examples for touching as if from inspiring English sources

In the wildly animated scene of "Paysage d'Hiver" (1950), each of two gnarly, leafless trees in the foreground reaches a branch toward the other, almost touching, as if with index fingers.

He was outraged at the fear he felt: fear of touching, as if he shared the common belief that lepers were paying for their sins and would infect anybody who came close.

The Henry Moore, eleven feet tall, is shaped like a doughnut, and from each of its interior sides a conical and breastlike bulge extends toward another conical and breastlike bulge, their business ends nearly touching, as if they were on the ceiling of a chapel.

I have two that I cleave to, that I turn over in my mind to study like the facets of a yet unsolved Rubik's Cube, or imagine touching as if they were rosary beads.

I have this memory of being touched as if it were a miracle.

A fracture appears in a bedroom wall of their apartment; windows crack without being touched, as if by hostile magic.

She went to great pains to avoid touching anything that Oghi had touched, as if he were infected with some terrible contagious disease.

They were probably only wildflowers from a lot next to the strip mall, but she was as touched as if they were orchids.

Especially acute are painstaking drawings of odd objects — a camera tripod, heaped erasers, samurai armor — which appeal less to vision than to touch, as if they were excavated by hand from pictorial space.

And for "Reality," a mournful but benign breakup song, he sat solo playing electric piano, an instrument he hadn't yet touched, as if hinting that there's still more of his music to be discovered.

The only thing she put on her plate was a single crayfish, which she did not touch, as if it were something to look at rather than to eat.