touchiness

I'd never known if the effect was intentional or a result of my own touchiness.

Portugal showed its touchiness toward Spain in more ways than economic.

There was a lot of touchiness and irritability that week.

Studying lower species is, at least, less fraught with political touchiness.

Tyler says: "What you need to do is get over your touchiness.

That would explain his touchiness, and I had to admit it was my fault.

Still, for a subject that is so much on people's minds, this one evokes a lot of touchiness.

Touchiness was the least attractive quality of Diderot and his friends.

"There's a touchiness among feminists about representing black women as complex," she says.

Eddie heard the touchiness in his voice, but it was too late to do anything about it now.

The political touchiness over yesterday's numbers was evident in how the mayor's office chose to report them this year.

The touchiness is about taste and standards, but also about economics.

Given this present touchiness, Washington needs to avoid gratuitous provocation.

Terry tells Drew, with what seems like excessive touchiness.

Nothing materialized and he shrugged, writing it off to womanly touchiness.

This, after all, is a play in which a character will say, "I'm not touchy," with infinite touchiness.

The line between sensitivity and touchiness is thin.

There was a simplicity in the man which would have disarmed a touchiness even more youthful than mine.

In fact, the really difficult part of the trailering experience was the touchiness of the brakes.

You could wave this off as merely one more example of the Mayor's erasing the line between sensitivity and touchiness.

But the Bush administration's touchiness about charges that we acted - and are still acting - in Iraq "because of oil"?

His touchiness was proof enough for me.

'Well, sir, it certainly explains Sally's touchiness about mental health.

Part of the touchiness was because the power controls, essential at high speeds over 450 mph, lacked any feedback.

The pedantry, the good nature, the touchiness, the humour, the nervousness, are all here.