A few touchy-feely moments do not undo this kind of tension or permanently alter this kind of behavior.
Now there are few touchier questions inside the White House than whether Mr. Obama is still smoking.
For airlines, busting a customer down in rank because he or she flew fewer miles is "touchy," he said, adding "they've been knocked down a tier, going from platinum to gold or gold to silver, or whatever the terminology for the program is".
"A few people are pretty touchy about that part of history," she concedes, with understatement.
The issue is so touchy that few want to address it publicly, least of all the United States, which uses military bases in Qatar.
Speaking of consent, gay or not, we have a few problems with that touchy subject too.
You'll find few warning signs at this touchy-feely reptile zoo, located 40 miles northeast of Seattle.
She is very touchy feely, but give her a few years and a few kids and she'll be recoiling from his touch like he's infected with Zika.
In a paper due out this year in the journal Emotion, Mr. Kraus and his co-authors, Cassy Huang and Dr. Keltner, report that with a few exceptions, good teams tended to be touchier than bad ones.
The bomb may turn out to be the work of a few cranks, but it blew up at a touchy time.
