The problem is, he seems to have touched a nerve.

Still, the letter had seemed to touch a public nerve.

But once we touched a nerve, things took on a life of their own.

But something about what he saw that morning touched a nerve.

It seemed she'd touched a nerve at last - but with which question?

I knew that, but just now it seemed everything touched a "nerve".

The film has touched a nerve with its view of reality as just a massive computer program.

But the Wells situation, more than any other, touched a nerve with the front office.

The issue has touched a deep nerve in this territory.

That has touched nerves in a land worried about its future.