Sentence examples for a sensitive nerve from inspiring English sources

"You're touching a sensitive nerve," Dr. Greenewalt said.

Foreign adoptions have long touched a sensitive nerve here.

He also inadvertently touched a sensitive nerve in the city, where many people viewed the acts of civil disobedience as more rabble-rousing than free speech.

The presence of American security officials in Pakistan whose duties appear to deal with Islamic extremists as the United States and Pakistan combat terrorism has touched a sensitive nerve among all strands of Pakistani society.

Peter King, the senior Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, claimed yesterday to have "hit a sensitive nerve" in calling for an investigation into whether the Obama administration had released classified information to the Oscar-winning film-maker.

(212-244-7529) www.orgnASSASSINStre.org ASSASSINS -- This Roundabout Theater Company revival of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's controversial 1990 musical that presents the history of presidential assassination in America was deemed too close to a sensitive nerve and postponed after the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Although it is unclear whether NH represents a focal, nociceptive-type pain stemming from epicranial tissues or neuralgia of a terminal branch of a pericranial sensitive nerve [4], the anti-nociceptive action of NTP seemed beneficial against NH in this patient.

When you're in that space, you're completely open, like a sensitive raw nerve.

A recent Fortune story on a Colorado prison-run goat dairy has tapped into a socially sensitive nerve, if today's response by Jezebel writer Kelly Faircloth is any indication.

A few weeks later, Jay Leno touched an even more sensitive nerve, a twofer: "They executed a guy with an I.Q. of 63.

If you actually were an unruly and resentful teen-ager, this struck a particularly sensitive nerve.