Sentence examples for touching historical from inspiring English sources

It won, with touching historical symmetry, the Alexander Korda award for the outstanding British film.

He had loved touching historical objects since he was a child, when his uncle, a history professor, would let him hold old manuscripts and ceramic pieces.

Cringe-worthy though it is, Paul Bunyan is still worth the detour, retaining some touching historical attraction: the naive young Britten and the soigné Auden, both in America while Europe was at war, joining forces in a creative union which never flowered.

The works revealed a fine touch, historical regard, and capricious yet contemporary sensibility.

That same year, he published How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science, a reflection on his life and work that also touches on historical aspects of science and on the intellectual environment of modern-day research.

A move to provide welfare benefits to minority Hungarians living in neighboring countries has touched off historical sensitivities in Romania and Slovakia, which say the law would encroach on their sovereignty.

But the second time it happened, when Mr. Putin again abandoned the capital last week and flew here to meet Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori of Japan in the splendor of the Winter Palace, tongues started wagging that Mr. Putin was raising the status of his hometown in a manner that touched the historical chord of rivalry between Moscow and St . Petersburg

In 1941, U.S. bond yields touched a historical low, a perfect time to sell U.S. bonds, whose yields rose to 7% in 1975 and 15% in 1981.

Mr. Abe has largely avoided touching on delicate historical issues since he took office, with the exception of another offering he made to Yasukuni in April.

What we see through his eyes in the tower's stairwell is an apocalypse as vivid as Nathanael West's burning of Los Angeles, but all the more harrowing and touching for its historical reality and for the innocence and heroism of the victims.

This trio of DVDs contains informative special features touching on this historical aspect, as well as on Dean's relationships with Natalie Wood, Julie Harris, Rock Hudson and other costars.