Sentence examples for was touchy and from inspiring English sources

Friedrich was touchy and taciturn.

In the portion of his book that addresses my role in the Senate hearings into his nomination, Justice Thomas offers a litany of unsubstantiated representations and outright smears that Republican senators made about me when I testified before the Judiciary Committee — that I was a "combative left-winger" who was "touchy" and prone to overreacting to "slights".

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

The material was touchy, and would attract a world of readers both of the faithful and the doubters.

I suspect he would have been touchy and angry about any criticism.

Le Figaro also weighs in, mentioning Hillary Clinton's assessment of Sarkozy as a "naked emperor" who is "touchy" and "authoritarian".

The narrator's boss is touchy and one day he catches the girl running on the course and tells her off.

A wartime thriller set in Franco's neutral Spain, it is written with the lightest of touches, the dialogue is persuasively clipped and the vocabulary is believable (people are "touchy" and "peppery", and say "Oh, hell" when things go wrong).

But all the characters in The Slap are touchy, and that seems to be part of Tsiolkas's point – in the Australia of the 21st century, multiculturalism has won.

Like I said, bloggers are touchy and I'm a blogger.

The on-device controls are touchy and the clock can be hard to read.