The thing is that they do not seem to touch.
As we walked toward the dining room, my feet seemed hardly to touch the ground.
The words seemed to touch a spring in her mind.
He rarely seemed to touch evidence at a crime scene.
Then he bent down and seemed to touch his shoes.
Her feet seemed to touch the floor only every third or fourth step.
This generic drug doesn't seem to touch them at all!
When released last year, the film seemed to touch everyone who saw it, in various ways.
His feet didn't seem to touch the ground all the way back to the city.
Strange to say, the couple's action seems almost to touch the hearts of the community.