impinge

Things are distant, but in so far as they impinge at all, not unpleasant.

Nor does it impinge on "the fundamental right of privacy guaranteed by the United States Constitution."

Hines's pictures don't make us feel miserable enough, for the misery of their subjects to impinge fully on us.

What could come closer to the anti-retinal position of Duchamp than paintings so dark they can barely impinge on our retinas?

The new guidelines do not impinge on the free-trade agreement or other agreements governing cultural and sports exchanges.

It is strange at such times how trivial things impinge on the consciousness with a shock as of something important and immense.

The imagination of the line is meant to be impressed by the spectacle of the heavy mass about to impinge on it.

There the tone is straightened out, and made to impinge on the roof of the mouth at a precisely defined point.

It did not impinge on his own jealously guarded circle of activity, on his own task of bringing a fugitive to justice.

Is such quick acceptance found now where Easterns and Westerns impinge?