Sentence examples for a nerve because from inspiring English sources

I must have struck a nerve, because soon the inspector had me on the phone.

Carol Martin, a professor of drama at New York University who is writing a book about documentary theater, said that plays of this type strike a nerve because, "The performer is implicated in the subject matter".

But obviously it struck a nerve because..

"That hit a nerve because arsenic sounds like poison".

I must have hit a nerve because the response was overwhelming.

The rappers, however, have struck a nerve because they cut to the chase.

Thursday's attack at Garissa University College struck a particular nerve because, in a country with no significant natural resources and a scant social safety net, parents make huge sacrifices to educate their offspring in the hope that they in turn will support their families – and in many cases whole clans.

But the Morris case really touches a nerve, partly because some writers vote for Morris and not Bert Blyleven.

He thinks that movies like "Remember the Titans" strike a nerve simply because "a lot of guys played high school football, and before that, Pop Warner football".

Amid its pious devotion to the woebegone, there are scenes that manage to twitch into life and hit a nerve, perhaps because they also bump the funny bone.

Similarly, backstage comedy Birdman – about a faded Hollywood actor once famous for a superhero role – touches a nerve partly because it stars Michael Keaton, whose career declined steadily after Batman Returns (1992).