12 Metaphors for sensitivenesses

A comprehensive sensitiveness to such an appeal, whether of art or of nature, was Grillparzer's ideal of individual nature and culture.

Their sensitiveness is a thing we have been trained, for self-defence, to repress.

I do not recollect seeing it remarked that the ordinary phenomena of dreaming seem to show that partial sensitiveness is a normal condition during sleep.

This sensitiveness to the changes of the outward world is a large element in her mind, and indicates the reality of her poetic gifts.

I think, generally, that fear of open discussion implies feebleness of inward conviction, and great sensitiveness to the expression of individual opinion is a mark of weakness.

Of all these aspects of the revival, however, the new sensitiveness and accessibility to the influences of external nature was the most pervasive and the most important.

Had Grahame been a careless, selfish man, he might possibly have been happier; his very sensitiveness was his bane.

For the physical nature is inherited from parents, and sensitiveness to psychic impressions is a property of the physical body; in our family, as in so many Irish ones, belief in "ghosts" of all descriptions was general, and my mother has told me of the banshee that she had heard wailing when the death-hour of one of the family was near.

I do not mention these stories because they are in any fashion remarkable or out of the way, but only to show that the sensitiveness to impressions other than physical ones, that was a marked feature in my own childhood, was present also in the family to which I belonged.

This diseased sensitiveness, inherited from his mother, was the curse of his physical and mental organization.

And yet they seem to be regarded with no special favour by the Creator; they have to contend with insuperable obstacles; the very sensitiveness of their spirit is a torturing disability.

Sensitiveness is a miserable, a cheap thing in itself, but invaluable if it be used for the nurture of delicacy.

12 Metaphors for  sensitivenesses