Two years ago, he was awkward at community meetings, but he has learned a common touch.
He has also brought his common touch to small horror movies and, soon, videogames.
He also brings a common touch, rare among the Moscow liberal crowd, to his public speaking.
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But he lacks the common touch that has made Mr Weizman loved far beyond the peace camp.
It hardly helps that Mr Cavallo, accustomed to performing on the international conference circuit, lacks the common touch.
Camilla's common touch came out during an unannounced visit to a street market.
But this says more about Mr Tang than about Mr Leung's common touch.
When Mitt Romney outduels you as the man with the common touch, you have a larger problem than negative TV ads.
Though he was amiable, bounding to greet visitors with a beefy handshake, he lacked the common touch, and often talked in economic jargon.
Mr Sarkozy's claim to have the common touch is in tatters.
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It is experience that can give a person a common touch and a sense of compassion, an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live.
Furthermore, like many successful strongmen, he has the common touch, which allows him to connect with ordinary Cambodians in a way that his principal opponent, Sam Rainsy of the eponymous Sam Rainsy Party, has struggled to equal.
His "I am an African" speech from 1996 is rightly celebrated, but Mr Mbeki famously lacked the common touch - he would probably call it the "proletariat engagement" - and was more often mocked for his grandiloquence than praised for his eloquence.
One of the most common surfaces we touch everyday happens to be our smartphone.
The reasons that members of this community don't get tested vary, but there are common threads that touch youth across all demographics, especially questions about what love and sex means after a positive HIV diagnosis.
He also had the touch of country common sense.
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Politicians are condemned for being out of touch with the common herd, but rare is the person who has never mentioned anything, in private, which he would rather not be repeated in public.
"The players are comfortable with that, they don't have a problem at all but ultimately if it was touch and go, common sense would prevail and we wouldn't want to take any risk whatsoever, " he said.
However retro that may seem to the smartphone and tablet crowd, as we move into this new world of enterprise apps, smartphones and tablets will still have something important in common with their desktop brethren: the touch experience.
Developers utilizing Mono for Android and MonoTouch can save time and money by sharing common code between iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Android phones and tablets, as well as Windows Phone 7, Windows desktops and Windows Server.
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As a nice touch, Android 4.2 will be common among the bunch, as will backside-illuminated sensors on the cameras and the quad-core, 1.2GHz MediaTek MT6589 (Cortex A7) SoC.
When a Tea Party group goes off the rails like this, major news outlets are more than happy to use them as yet another example of a movement out of touch with mainstream America and for that matter, common sense.
Apple said it shouldered the development of the now common glass-faced smartphones with colorful and playful graphics that users touch to control.
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Okay, maybe not everyone, some just want to stay in touch with their kids halfway across the country, or meet new people with common interests, or reconnect with a pal from elementary school, or keep tabs at their own risk on an old flame, or support a political cause.
But even these aren't a perfect solution, because the ones that work with the iPad can't send common Windows keyboard commands to OnLive Desktop, so you wind up moving between the keyboard and the touch screen, which can be frustrating.
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