Touching

The audience was carried away by his touching performance.

Your dress is touching the wet paint.

The touching episode came home to me.

When I was a kid, touching bugs didn't bother me a bit. Now I can hardly stand looking at pictures of them.

Let go of my arm! I can't stand people touching me.

You're not going to get electrocuted just by directly touching a 1.5V battery.

On the other hand, there seem to be those among young folk who, while touching on Buddhism, have started to think of it as a vital spiritual support.

If Buddhism is attractive, it is because it appears as a possibility of touching the infinite and obtaining happiness without having any concrete religious obligations. A spiritual auto-eroticism of some sort.

Blind people read by touching, using a system of raised dots called Braille.

Sentences bring context to the words. Sentences have personalities. They can be funny, smart, silly, insightful, touching, hurtful.

a touching story

Now as touching things offered vnto idoles, wee know that wee all haue knowledge.

Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible ; for my first vague disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the sea, became almost a perturbation.

But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.