This spirit (he called it realism) was shocking to a lot of finer sensibilities.
In a swelter of mounting panic, Hensher applied for job after job - in advertising, business consultancy, whatever looked halfway posh and suitable for a gentleman of fine sensibility - and found himself contemplating suicide as a sensible career move.
Is American education still a place where good writing, fine sensibility and liberal values are cultivated?
Carson, author of 'Silent Spring', was a toxicologist, social reformer and writer with a fine sensibility towards beauty and nature.
Margaret, we're told, "did not have a fine sensibility, or, even, a female sensibility" — when reading books, she does not tear up over the death of Little Nell in "The Old Curiosity Shop" or the passing of Beth in "Little Women".
After peripheral nerve injury, axonal regeneration does not always allow for adequate functional recovery, and therefore the patients do not recover normal motor control and fine sensibility [ 13].
I don't like overrefinement, or to dwell in the heads of vaporous ladies with fine sensibilities.
Boswell himself was sure that the "influences of the air" were irresistible to people of fine sensibilities.
The finest sensibilities came in the baritone of Marcus Farnsworth, realising both dignity and compassion in the role of Jesus and in the bass arias.
High office had bred fine sensibilities, and Carausius appeared to be reneging on his upbringing by aligning with Roman rather than provincial culture, and styled himself as the imperial Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Valerius Carausius.
The author of "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" prefers books with action: "I don't like overrefinement, or to dwell in the heads of vaporous ladies with fine sensibilities".
