Sentence examples for as a touchy from inspiring English sources
"Who has an easier time getting into college?" Other whites feared race as a touchy subject.
Peter Karadordevic, the 30-year-old son of Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia who moved to the East Side in 2009, shrugged off questions about his background as "a touchy subject".
But they also suggested that we make it clear that however our son turned out, we'd accept and love him — and to work references to gay life into our daily conversation instead of treating it as a touchy subject best left alone.
When he was sent to Spain in 1808, his fame for personal bravery remained undimmed, but at the same time he was also known as a touchy and temperamental commander whom the general staff found difficult to fit into a tactical pattern.
He described himself as a "touchy feely sort of person" and rejected the other women's claims of sexual assault.
Like me, she feels "empty" when she has to abstain, since she identifies as a touchy person who constantly needs affection.
When Germans heard of his emphasis on positive psychology and his reliance on outside experts, they tended to dismiss it as a touchy-feely threat to Germany's macho resolve.
Mexican writer-director Michel Franco gives Tim Roth his best role in aeons as a touchy-feely care nurse whose no-questions-asked compassion is made to feel eerily suspect.
BROTHER AND SISTER GET REALLY CLOSE IN 'THE GLASS MENAGERIE' -- The Wingfields, the financially distressed and emotionally fractured family in Tennessee Williams's memory play, have never been known as a touchy-feely clan.
In the UK, for example, the firm puts its recent financial success down to a £95m "re-branding" exercise to reinvent itself as a touchy-feely retailer, where customers can now use free wi-fi, drink rainforest-friendly coffee with organic milk, and eat free-range eggs.
The shorter one, "Mounting Tension," from 1950, casts Rivers as a lecherous painter, Ms. Freilicher as his vampy shrink, and Mr. Ashbery as a touchy-feely jock (he's touching and feeling sculptures at MoMA) in a send-up of the psychic angst Abstract Expressionism held dear.
