touching• He remembered the shoulders, narrow, somehow touching.• Shipssteamed, highwayssnaked, houses clustered, all, from this height, orderly, and in their smallness touching.• He found her solicitudetouching but Modigliani dismissed her, calling her a milksop.• Suddenly the humour, the absurd, tender, touchingpoetry of the whole thing, made me smile.• It was a touchingscene when old Mr Adams received his leaving present.• It was touching to see them together. They were obviously still in love after thirty years of marriage.• Fox gave a touchingtribute to his late father.
touching2prepositionprep formal
ABOUTconcerning 涉及,关于,有关
matters touching the conduct of diplomacy
涉及处理外交关系的事务
Examples from the Corpus
touching• Feingold will give evidence touching on the current case.