Sentence examples for to the touchy from inspiring English sources

So the conversation shifted to the touchy topic of virginity.

By the time he was 25, the president of Harvard was hectoring him to join the faculty.Mr Fryer now applies his supple mind to the touchy, tangled issue of racial inequality.

Australia had already planned to make the shift in July 2015 and will now accelerate the changeover by a year, bowing to the touchy politics of what constitutes a "tax".

There is a widespread belief in Sweden that with parliamentary elections in mid-September, politicians would prefer keep the case as quiet as possible and avoid being drawn into any debate over issues related to the touchy subject of immigration.

Decoding, untangling, explaining... these are the principles behind Snow's work in apps too, which brings us back to the touchy subject of apps versus books, and the way multimedia might make history more accessible without dumbing down.

This brings us to the touchy subject of the aging statements on bottles of rum.

Still recovering from the wounds he sustained when the gunman opened fire that night, killing 12 and injuring dozens more, Mr. Barton has decided to devote his energies this fall to something entirely different: Trying to get the presidential candidates to address the touchy issue of guns and gun violence.

In fact, his aversion to the "touchy-feely" approach of Mrs Mowlam led him to ask Tony Blair to replace her.

The rage he once expressed on stage to repel the audience stands in sharp contrast to the touchy-feely intimacy with which he now brings them into his world.

Yet there was Mr. Obama this week, sarcastically calling Mr. McCain's chief economic adviser, former Senator Phil Gramm, "Dr. Phil" — a reference to the touchy-feely television psychologist Phil McGraw — for saying that recent economic woes were based on a negative national mind-set.

That is 'selection.' " Later, he would get to the touchier part, about how the minute changes in organisms that drive biological change arise spontaneously, without direction.