Sentence examples for painfully sensitive from inspiring English sources

Painfully sensitive to the rottenness of his society, Isaiah foresaw its consequent collapse.

It is reality TV that captures painfully sensitive moments that will shape lives for many years.

Lyndon Johnson was painfully sensitive about his modest education at Southwest Texas State Teachers College.

Meanwhile, Tess, Marguerite's painfully sensitive 11-year old daughter, veers ever closer to some kind of breakdown.

An hour or two later, his ears became painfully sensitive to background noise, so he put in earplugs.

Palmer is almost painfully sensitive to a place's psychological aura, its ability to summon traces of collective memory.

Like Diana, Sisi was painfully shy and sensitive, and yet she had a soft touch and a compassionate side that set her apart from the royals, who were often perceived as more formal and aloof.

More important, it's painfully significant, an intelligent and sensitive intertwining of the nature of grief, cultural identity, fraught relationships and shared tragedy.

Henry Ian Brennann) is the gawky, sensitive one with a painfully unslaked sex drive.

The singer-songwriter was, of course, the quintessential baby boomer phenomenon: self-involved, sensitive, socially self-conscious, painfully sincere.

Sensitive to such doubts and painfully aware of the large political contributions of trial lawyers, predominantly to the resurgent Democrats those pushing for change are, for now, eschewing a radical approach.