There is the story of the time on the set of the movie "Kinsey" when she rushed to the rescue of a crew member whose fingertip had been severed by a fan, helped staunch the flow of blood and applied cold compresses to his fevered brow.
Probes were selected based on the participant's weight according to the manufacturer's recommendations, and attached to the index finger of the left hand, or to the big toe of infants whose fingertip thickness was less than 5 mm.
The heavenly connection is in our fingertips, whose atoms were forged in stars, according to immaculate calculations that reach back to the first fractured microsecond of unrecorded time, while the stars and galaxies themselves were born in submicroscopic fluffs of uncertainty.
After all, with astonishingly useful technologies at our fingertips, whose sole purpose is to support and encourage our productivity, we have obviously have no excuse: no good reason, no permission to stop, to rest, to seek refuge.
And although it would be easy to look at some presentations — like the finely tuned Marni show from Consuelo Castiglioni, whose square cut jackets, fingertip-length coats and cashmere leggings were so low key and assured they were almost ostentatious in their simplicity — and gripe about a failure of imagination.
Meanwhile, "A Curious Man," a book whose author had at his fingertips materials that few other historians have seen, reads as though it were written not by Ripley's biographer but by his publicist.
Going forward my colleagues and I will be the champions of exploration, discovery and solutions to ending a disease whose cure is virtually at our fingertips.
Deadline day signing Fyvie showed great awareness to dink a return pass over the home defenders to Stevenson, whose volley from 15 yards brushed the fingertips of Robinson on its way into the net.
"The writer whose works the Goncourt judges handle with their fingertips, fearful of dirtying their hands", as a critic on Le Monde has put it, is in the process of enraging the French literary establishment once again.
But in the end it was County who almost got a third through Arquin, whose shot was pushed round the post by the fingertips of Samson with Barbour having a headed effort cleared off the line by Ben Gordon.
