Sentence examples for he's touchy from inspiring English sources

"He's touchy".

Yes, he's touchy about his stature and imagines insults where none reside, but he's also fastidious and demanding and the voice of authority.

If he's touchy feely, odds are that's all he wants from you.

He is touchy too at the suggestion that he poached talent from Petrobras.

He was touchy, prejudiced, opinionated, impatient, often bored, usually high-handed, brutally bigoted.

He was touchy about the reception, display and preservation of his work.

The one thing he was touchy about, though, was photography — he wouldn't let me snap his picture, no matter how many times I asked.

And he is touchy when he feels Brazil is being lectured by foreigners: Europeans, Lula said recently, should take a look at a map of their own continent and see how much forest is left before telling Brazil what it should do with the Amazon.In this section Welcome to our shrinking jungle Spot the rancher A police state?

Maybe he was touchy, and maybe he pushed professional "personal space" boundaries.

Small wonder she's touchy.

"It's touchy," he said.