But there is a smooth-skinned truth here: your ambitions can jet-propel your achievements, but also limit them.
While these people appear to be self-assured when they are in the limelight, they can in truth be thin-skinned, easily offended, and lacking in humility and grace off-camera.
"No one really wants to hear the truth from a dark-skinned woman, but people need to try to understand what black culture is, then figure out how to help the culture instead of hurt the culture," said Naijaeaux.
Other scientists are exploring personal qualities that span phylogenies and allegories: Recent research suggests that highly sensitive, arty-type humans have a lot in common with squealing pigs and twitchy mice, and that to call a hypersensitive person thin-skinned or touchy might hold a grain of physical truth.
The truth is, I am offended, you are thin-skinned, he is plain unlucky.
The "real" women often sport dreadlocks or tight curls, and one can generally look to the more "rootsy" sister in a Perry film to speak the virulent "truth" about, say, domestic abuse, while her lighter-skinned sidekick looks on, stunned by the revelations.
The principal, Allen T. Woods, a large, light-skinned African-American with a gentle voice, laid out the context: "The truth of the matter is, there is a vast population of kids in our school with no parental involvement.
Asked whether he was hurt by the rumblings and suggestions that his frankness was 'courageous' (in the Sir Humphrey sense of 'politically mad'), he says: 'If you're that thin-skinned then go and get another job, is my answer.' The truth is that Darling was disturbed by the row but now feels vindicated.
Assisting Gustave in his quest for truth, justice and his personal freedom is Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the coffee-skinned war refugee that Gustave is mentoring in the Jedi-like ways of the Lobby Boy.
(How odd to think that the contemptuous picture of this class has remained unchanged over so many decades — a clue perhaps that it, too, like the dark-skinned hordes, is more of a fictional creation of narrative necessity than an observation of a truth; Raspail himself, I gather, identified as a royalist first).
He is thin-skinned, melodramatic, petulant, impulsive, loud-mouthed, obnoxious, boastful, crude and shameless and, like many adolescents, he has at best a casual relationship with the truth.
