Sentence examples for touching life from inspiring English sources

But in all cases touching life or liberty I deem it the duty of this court, when once it has jurisdiction of a case, to enforce these restraints for the protection of the citizen where they have been disregarded in the court below, though called to its attention.

Regina has one of the most touching life stories from multicultural Roman Britain and is commemorated in a tombstone found near Hadrian's Wall.

A touching, life-sized bronze baby holds its arms out for love.

But it is a big, touching, life-affirming performance that could just as easily have been Oscar-nominated as panned.

"Death is always with us, so I want to touch life.

For he has caught here more than the surface grimness, he has touched life at its quick.

"You touch life in fewer ways," an Islandian friend tells Lang of Americans; Lang replies, quite rightly, that while that's true, Americans also "have more leisure to touch life in ways that aren't work".

It has so many sides, it touches life at so many points, at every one there is such possibility of improvement and excellence.

Anthony makes people want to be brave and you can almost touch life's ferocity and vitality when performing his work.

Thich Nhat Hanh tells us that in Buddhism, the energy that helps us "touch life deeply" is known as smrti, the energy of mindfulness.

He was touching his life; he was testing it, to make sure it was still there.