Sentences with phrase «than a touch of»

There's also more than a touch of hubris in the idea that the media has somehow «made» Donald Trump what he is, or convinced millions of people to support him.

The word carries connotations of success, popularity, and glamour, as well as (more recently, I think) more than a touch of spoiled brattiness.

As GOOD puts it with more than a touch of understatement, that's «not bad for just fooling around in the laboratory.»

Asked whether he was surprised by the reports that have come from the breach, he remarked — with more than a touch of humor — that he thought more people from the U.S. would have been exposed as being linked to offshore accounts.

This is a comforting thought, but severed from any religious context, there is more than a touch of wishful thinking in it.

With a crunchy texture just perfect for little tastebuds, these crackers have more than a touch of the Le Snak about them (minus the

With a crunchy texture just perfect for little tastebuds, these crackers have more than a touch of the Le Snak about them (minus the wheat and artificial numbers in the kind created by Uncle Toby's, of course).

Now this is not what most Arsenal fans see: what I also want to see is Kolasanic tried in DM (Keene - Viera mold, but without the glaring facial expressions, and with a more than a touch of class, so much so that other sides will not figure out what is happening to their running lanes through middle).

«Don't give me more than a touch of waist,» he instructs Constantina, as both the young Stafford - shires begin to whine impatiently.

Perhaps it need not be a single player that makes up for Suarez, but a few: Daniel Sturridge can directly replace the goals that Suarez provided, and also has his individual flair about him, but that magical quality that Suarez had, whilst unique to him, is remarkably alike to a young Brazilian no. 10 with more than a touch of flair playing for Liverpool, a player very similar to Suarez in some ways — his quiet nature off the field, and dazzling on the ball skills when on the pitch — yet also different, a creative player rather than a destroyer of opposition teams.

I don't know about you, but when the temperature heats up, I get more than a touch of wanderlust.

The warning that Scotland would face a «long and winding road» back into the EU misrepresents the situation and has more than a touch of alarmist scaremongering.

There is also more than a touch of the old «Tory grandee» — which he really wasn't — as we read about lunch or dinner combined with plotting at Claridge's, the Savoy, Pratt's, Boodle's, the Garrick and Rules.

«There will be national electeds who remember that he, at the height of his power, had the ability to step in and get a map done [for Democrats] and didn't,» one New York Democratic operative said with more than a touch of frustration.

Coalition politics has more than a touch of cat and mouse about it, so it's quite right that Downing Street's latest acquisition is of a feline nature.

Cameron responds with more than a touch of bitterness; Miliband was «determined to play politics», he complains.

With its title tongue - in - cheekily evoking «I, Claudius,» another epic tale of madness and debauchery, the dramatic comedy «I, Tonya» revisits — with verve, intelligence, scathing humor and more than a touch of sadness — the bizarre 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by goons associated with the camp of Kerrigan's athletic rival, Tonya Harding.

Other than a touch of edge enhancement owed to the digital sharpening, the picture quality on high - definition Blu - ray is flawless, delivering a naturally film - like image with accurate color rendering and significant detail.

As I say in my video review above, the inspiration for Anderson (diving into British cinema this time around and bringing Day - Lewis back from his carpetbagging American roles of recent years along with him) is Hitchcock, with more than a touch of Rebecca and even a splash of Marnie and definitely Vertigo.

If you only glanced at it quickly, we reckon you'd be hard pressed to recognise Arnold here (is it just us, or is there more than a touch of Malkovich about that facial expression?).

The women of The Descent step up to that plate bravely in Neil Marshall's thoroughly enjoyable 2005 horror, that finds a bunch of life - long pals heading into caves with more than a touch of tension already in play.

Jose Padilha's ROBOCOP reboot arrives next month with more than a touch of trepidation.

Our comedy of the year, 22 Jump Street was a glorious riff on sequels, a meta meditation on rom - coms with more than a touch of Brokeback about it, and a gag machine the likes of which has rarely been seen since Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker hung up their funny dog poo.

Reeves has more than a touch of Buster Keaton about him, staying stone - faced as he blasts, karate - kicks and throat - punches his way through literally hundreds of faceless underworld goons.

I have to admit — other than Touch of Grey and Truckin», I'm not much of a Grateful Dead expert either.

With more than a touch of the Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook) about it, Brooklyn is romantic, sentimental and undemanding

The «Flame Red» Ralliart Magna has more than a touch of Mitsubishi's mind - blowing Lancer Evolution VI about it, in both show and go, and is bound to please the enthusiast driver.

Readers of this fictional ode to Cooperstown, New York will be rewarded by talented, complex writing and a multi-layered story with more than a touch of fantasy, plus a family tree littered with black sheep.

Set in New Zealand, this debut has more than a touch of magic.

This coming - of - age story set in a convent contains more than a touch of magic.

Like the works of Sarah Addison Allen and early Alice Hoffman, Creech's debut is centered on women who have more than a touch of magic in their lives.

It follows Dhand's successful debut Streets of Darkness, with the author displaying «more than a touch of the verve and pace of Lee Child», according to W H Smith Travel fiction buyer Matt Bates, who spearheads the Fresh Talent campaign.

Am I the only one who «hears» more than a touch of panic in those words.

And when you consider that the masterminds at work here are the guys behind Psychonauts and Brütal Legend, you can bet there's more than a touch of offbeat humour to the proceedings.

There was more than a touch of Mr Micawber about him in his conviction that something would turn up.

Krasner's 1931 self - portrait presents a sullen, tough image, with more than a touch of Giorgione about it, already proving what an accomplished painter she was, and makes her eclipse by her husband all the more regrettable.

In 2008, she was the Assistant Curator for Martin Beck's exhibition «Panel 2: Nothing better than a touch of ecology and catastrophe to unite the social classes» at Gasworks, London and for the exhibition series GSK Contemporary at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Papp seeks to take this aesthetic into the complexity of our current image - and information - based experience with more than a touch of thematic and visual multiplicity.

David Anfam, Senior Consulting Curator of the Clyfford Still Museum wrote about Untitled, 1948 - 1949, stating «its chromatic heat and concomitant luminosity has more than a touch of hell fire and uplift to it».

In Ms. Murray's mature work, eccentrically shaped or multipanel canvases fused Cubism's shattered forms and Surrealism's suggestive biomorphism with the scale and some of the angst of Abstract Expressionism and more than a touch of Disneyesque humor and motion.

In it, a scrum of tumbling figures rush from infancy toward death with more than a touch of Futurism, Social Realism and Neo-Expressionism.

Although a moderate on many issues, Bridenstine is a full - on climate change denier, so any weather - or climate - related legislation he sponsors needs to be examined with more than a touch of skepticism.

2) «While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.»

With more than a touch of irony, a motorcyclist who spent about 20 years as an off - shore oil driller is demonstrating that there are alternatives to fossil fuels.

HP has dabbled in the wearables sector before, but its latest parnership with designer Isaac Mizrahi has resulted in a swish timepiece with more than the touch of bling about it.That's because the Isaac Mizhari Smartwatch Engineered by HP (yep, catchy... Read more

Expect more than a touch of innovation as we get hands on with the Hive View.

The one hand doesn't know what the other is doing scenario comes to mind... typical of bureaucratically disorganized top down governance with more than a touch of arrogant entitlement attitude thrown in for good measure... non?

There's more than a touch of the nautical about the decor.

Looking for a mirror that will add more than a touch of vintage and art deco to your home?

And with more than a touch of The Northern Lights «armoured hero Iorek Byrnison about it, we simply must have the polar bear.