Sentence examples for a thin-skinned man from inspiring English sources

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The last person we need as president is a thin-skinned man with a hair-trigger temper, who can't restrain himself from striking back at any perceived slight or disrespect.

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He said he would pardon four newspapermen sentenced to three years in jail and forgive fines of $40m against them and their newspaper, El Universo of Guayaquil.Such climbdowns are rare for Mr Correa, a proud and thin-skinned man who has ridden an oil-fuelled economic boom to become Ecuador's longest-ruling leader for a century.

He was an anxious, driven, thin-skinned man — "He doesn't bend; he breaks," his friend Isaiah Berlin told Gaddis — and he needed succor (thus the attraction to nurses).

He was an anxious, driven, thin-skinned man—"He doesn't bend; he breaks," his friend Isaiah Berlin told Gaddis and he needed succor (thus the attraction to nurses).

Trump is obsessed with how he is perceived, and his regular Twitter storms, directed at the press and other critics, reveal an excessively narcissistic and thin-skinned man.  .

All through he did the humdrum things mayors have to do, ensuring that potholes were filled and snow was ploughed.A thin-skinned man, whom officials dreaded upsetting, he created a formidable political machine.

To those who have consistently viewed the spectacle put on by this ostentatious, thin-skinned man as nothing less than vanity and nothing more than showmanship, it fortunately is the end of, as the Post puts it, a "circus-like" distraction.

And they'll do all of this in the service of one guy, a thin-skinned baby-man whom very few of them actually like.

The senator from Massachusetts labeled the presumptive Republican presidential nominee "a small, insecure money-grubber," "a thin-skinned bully" and "a nasty man" who would "crush you into the dirt to get whatever he wants". Then she critiqued his fashion choices.

The Massachusetts senator called him "a thin-skinned bully who is driven by greed and hate" and "a nasty man who will never become president of the United States".

Ippolito's new Broadway style musical Possibility Junkie tells the story of That Guitar Man and a song he has written which pokes fun at a thin-skinned conservative talk show host, Sean Kilroy, at a fictional news network.

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