Refusing food was an expression of purity, a way of touching the divine.
"So we immediately realized we had to find some way of touching them emotionally.
"Being here" is itself just a way of touching the magic of Banksy's celebrity – that's why everyone is taking pictures.
"An online memorial can never replace a real memorial, but it offers another way of touching the name of a person".
For the Indians classicism, intimately linked with the spirit of national independence, and also to the pride of individual states, is a way of touching base with a tradition that existed before Western and other colonial invasions.
When I came to this passage in "Jerusalem" about Mylia's way of touching things, I read it again and again, convinced that, in its oblique way, it revealed something essential about Tavares.
"Leslie had a way of touching me through her video that was incredible," said Kathy Halderman, 39, an administrative assistant and waitress in Liberty Township, Ohio, who credits Ms. Sansone with the 250 pounds she lost over four years.
Each morning he still drops by the high school or the middle school to chat with teachers and students in the halls before heading over to his office several miles away, because, he says, it is a way of "touching base".
It doesn't matter whether you act his plays or read his poems in Philadelphia or the Philippines, Chennai or Chorley, Stratford-upon-Avon or Stratford, Ontario; they will find a way of touching a nerve, of touching home.
