How To Use Touchingly In A Sentence
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His portraits often show his subjects brimming with youthful idealism and naivety; touchingly eager for fame, rather than sullied by it.
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His portraits often show his subjects brimming with youthful idealism and naivety; touchingly eager for fame, rather than sullied by it.
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This is very similar to the detailed, ornate, velvety and yet touchingly naive backdrops of those medieval scenes, that can be glimpsed through narrow windows in front of which wimpled ladies exchange devotional books with chivalrous gentlemen.
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Some are touchingly intimate: my sister-in-law received a set of pastel-colored cotton panties from her middle-school homeroom students, and to my utter amazement was utterly unamazed.
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While David is away chairing (very eccentrically of course) the Cannes festival committee we finally get to see close to his best and most mysterious and touchingly tragic movie.
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The cover of his black-bound tech-heavy book about the architectonics of nuclear war features a photo of two hands in a firm handclasp, each hand touchingly identified as, respectively, “United States” and “Russia.”
How the End Begins
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Rather touchingly, inspiration does return in his final years, but Mr. Houellebecq can only describe at a distance the saving graces of what he calls "artistic emotion"—his own cold, clinical writing is never able to activate it.
Reflections on Self-Regard
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His portraits often show his subjects brimming with youthful idealism and naivety; touchingly eager for fame, rather than sullied by it.
Times, Sunday Times
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How touchingly expressive are the succeeding lines, wrung from a heart which all the trials and temptations and buffetings of the world could not render worldly; which, amid a thousand follies and errors of the head, still retained its childlike innocence; and which, doomed to struggle on to the last amid the din and turmoil of the metropolis, had ever been cheating itself with a dream of rural quiet and seclusion:
The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
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Nowhere is Freud more touchingly fallible than in his love letters to his fiancee Martha Bernays, which occupy half this book.
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Aunt Polly knelt down and prayed for Tom so touchingly.
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Touchingly, he drank out of a pint glass that must once have been nicked from an English pub.
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We all embrace touchingly and say our farewells.
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He is bluesy; his guitar picking is flawless; his lyrics and melodies are touchingly funny.
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Their halting conversations and touchingly described moments of connection turn into all-out confessionals and then – perplexingly for the narrator – gaping disconnection.
Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke
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She, rather touchingly, has said she takes full responsibility for her morbid obesity.
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Andrews used to lament very touchingly the sunburning his toe-nails were receiving.
Andersonville
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The cover of his black-bound tech-heavy book about the architectonics of nuclear war features a photo of two hands in a firm handclasp, each hand touchingly identified as, respectively, “United States” and “Russia.”
How the End Begins
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Shepherd quotes the workmen's broad Edinburgh accents as if ancient Aramaic, finding one worker who touchingly gave up work elsewhere so that he could play his part in the creation of the new parliament.
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Most of all, he remains touchingly convinced of his powers of persuasion.
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Touchingly, in his own lecture on the Variations, Schoenberg cites Brahms's F major Cello Sonata and Violin Concerto as pieces that were thought of as "indigestible" and
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She, rather touchingly, has said she takes full responsibility for her morbid obesity.
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The real takeaway you get from the film is the same one his daughters touchingly acknowledge in the denouement - there's never anything wrong with making a stand against social injustice.
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Is alas, this old miscellaneous hair's starting Te is getting more malicious ......" E eyebrow old nun delicate and touchingly says.
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Measured against other degenerate cultures, we are still, in some respects, at the stage of a touchingly maladroit infancy.
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She, rather touchingly, has said she takes full responsibility for her morbid obesity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though Ms. Peters is in fragile voice, her acting is touchingly intense, and her colleagues, Mr. Burstein in particular, give powerhouse performances that couldn't be bettered.
When Faith Draws Blood
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His great sensitiveness is touchingly shown in his representation of this first contact with the Lord; the circumstances are present to him in the minutest details; he still remembers the Very hour.
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