Now they were all gathered together, and it was a touching sight to see the rows of young faces sobered and saddened by their first look at sorrow.

It is a touching sight.

They'd been entwined in an embrace, and Sandy's hair had been spread like a fan; by Aldridge's account it had been a touching, harrowing sight.

It was a touching sight; that suffering girl, just stepping into womanhood, hiding against her young bosom the nakedness of the little creature she loved.

Periyar stated how it is a touching sight to see the parents of those widowed children treating them like untouchables.

The most touching sight, however, is a memorial with the names and ages of all the climbers who've died on Mt McKinley and neighboring peaks.

"Ain't that a touching sight?"

It was a touching sight.

The twin hysterias about paedophiles and sunburn have all but wiped out summer's most touching sight: a small bare child running gleefully across the shallows.

It was a touching sight - at last - to cap a unique, unmissable triumph.