21.   Clearly, Mastrosimone had touched a nerve.

22.   Clearly, Joe Torre and Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter and all the rest had touched a nerve with their skill and their humanity.

23.   Even the dour Lamoriello had a sense that his competent franchise had touched some nerves.

24.   Even among ordinary Russians, the oft-televised scenes of onrushing American jets and cruise missiles over Bosnia have touched a nerve.

25.   He knew how to tell stories and touch nerves.

26.   In readings and book signings around the country, Parker seems to have touched a nerve with black managers of both genders.

27.   It has evidently touched nerves in others as well.

28.   It touched a nerve in many workplaces, where concerted efforts to hire African-American, Latino, Asian and American Indian workers are frustrated by rapid turnover.

29.   Its collection causes us to react in a way that goes beyond reason and touches our nerves, which is precisely what art should do.

30.   Reader response to a recent column on the spread and officiousness of monopolies convinces me that I must have touched a nerve.