3 Metaphors for susceptibilities

Their very susceptibility is our bane.

An honorable susceptibility to everything that may in the remotest degree affect the honor of the country is a national sentiment in France; but you will allow, sir, that it is carried too far when it becomes impatient of just complaint, when it will allow none of its acts to be arraigned and considers as an offense a simple and correct examination of injuries received and as an insult a deliberation on the means of redress.

The slave's susceptibility of pain is the sole fulcrum on which slavery works the lever that moves him.

3 Metaphors for  susceptibilities