Such pupils, as well as the deaf, are peculiarly sensitive to their defects.

Yes, but what sort of convert is this who is so insensible to substantials, so morbidly sensitive about mere accidentals?

To the perception of his keenly sensitive Southern nature they at once became ribald Yankee vandals, hoping for unseemly amusement from the detection of some awkwardness in the Indian-club-play of a defeated but not conquered Southern Gentleman; and, in the haughty sectional pride of his contemptuous soul, he indignantly determined to show not the least consciousness of their disrespectful observation.

In like manner, the Independent Labour Party and Union of Democratic Control are forces exceedingly sensitive to German influence, and in a decisive moment can be set in motion by the German "comrades.

It was Dorn's ordeal that his mentality robbed this hour of novelty and of adventure, that while his natural, physical fear incited panic and nausea and a horrible, convulsive internal retching, his highly organized, exquisitely sensitive mind, more like a woman's in its capacity for emotion, must suffer through imagining the infinite agonies that he might really escape.

The lad was doubly precious to us, being the only one left us of many; and he was fragile in body, we believed, and deeply sensitive in mind.

Nietzsche was so nervously sensitive that everyday life was an anguish to him, and broke his strength.

For this purpose the student cannot too strongly impress upon himself that subjective mind, on whatever scale, is intensely sensitive to suggestion, and as creative power works accurately to the externalization of that suggestion which is most deeply impressed upon it.

Acutely sensitive to pain and fear, she had both known the better to what terror might prompt the injured, and was the more appalled by the prospect.

I doubt whether the sincerest artist, finely sensitive, and with the choicest army of words at his ready and accurate command, could assemble the case.

To the modern reader the lines appear broken and uneven; but if one reads them over a few times, he soon catches the perfect swing of the measure, and finds that he is in the hands of a master whose ear is delicately sensitive to the smallest accent.

" But behind Henry's darkest and sternest moods lay a nature quick in passionate emotion, singularly sensitive to affection, tender, full of generous impulse, clinging to those he loved with yearning fidelity and long patience.

How strangely sensitive he was!

"I cannot help it, though, that I am foolishly sensitive where you are concerned.

For many reasons she was unduly sensitive to the slightest appearance of anything even faintly resembling a liberty.

Men have been remarkably sensitive about having women speak in public for their rights; but they watch with zest a woman screaming nonsense on the stage.

For Don Teodoro was, strange to say, painfully sensitive to ridicule, though in all other respects a singularly brave man, morally and physically.

At our parties Irene was no longer Irene, but "Mrs. Judge Robinson," and justly sensitive about her faulty complexion and lack of clothes.

Indeed, it is one of the most singular features of the time that not only old, or feeble, or specially sensitive people died, but strong men, heads of housesnot regarded as by any means specially soft-heartedraised, too, by circumstances out of reach of actual hunger, diedjust as O'Connell had diedof sheer distress of mind, and the effort to cope with what was beyond the power of any human being to cope with.

We seldom realize that ours is actually what it pretends to bea representative governmentand our legislatures are extraordinarily sensitive to what the people, the politically effective people, really want.

It is a wonderfully sensitive nerve in this country: it controls most of the others.

" The property of sensitiveness to light is independent of the power to generate current by exposure to lightthe best current-generating cells being only very moderately sensitive to light, and some of the most sensitive cells generate scarcely any current at all.

but what dull ache is this in that obscurely sensitive region, somewhere below the heart, where the nervous centre called the semilunar ganglion lies unconscious of itself until a great grief or a mastering anxiety reaches it through all the non-conductors which isolate it from ordinary impressions?

The father drew Jack's hand into his own, and the fluid force of his desire for mastery was flowing out from his finger-ends into the son's fibres, which were receptively sensitive to the caress.

The Grey One had been badly hurt in that sadly sensitive period which follows the putting away of girlish thingswhen womanhood is new and wonderful.