435 examples of sensitivenesses in sentences

The consequences of loss of caste are so feared,and are in reality of so trying a nature,that upon this point the sensitiveness of the Sepoy is always extreme, and his suspicions are easily aroused.

on Favell's sensitiveness, 181.

Sensitiveness, Lamb on, 181.

It much exceeded the reserve imposed on one of her station and years to allow of such homage from the other sex, though the occasion was generally deemed one that admitted of more than usual gallantry; and she evidently shrank, with the sensitiveness of one whose feelings were unpractised, from a homage so public.

" He changed his attitude, suddenly realising the volcanic sensitiveness of her attitude towards him and life in general.

One of the most striking passages in some memoranda which he has left of his early days, is where, in speaking of his own sensitiveness on the subject of his deformed foot, he described the feeling of horror and humiliation that came over him when his mother, in one of her fits of passion, called him a "lame brat.

She knew his pride, his sensitiveness, his mortal dread of ridicule.

His second quality is a wonderful sensitiveness to beauty, which shows itself not only in his subject-matter but also in the manner of his poetry.

Quote from Wordsworth's poems to show his belief that nature is conscious; to show the influence of nature on man; to show his interest in children; his sensitiveness to sounds; to illustrate the chastening influence of sorrow.

Quote from Landor's poems to illustrate his tenderness, his sensitiveness to beauty, his power of awakening emotion, his delicacy of characterization.

Could his wondrous sensitiveness of intuition have made him feel that my eyes were looking in on him? 'July 10.In the dead of night I knew that a stealthy foot had gone past my door.

Here was a real man undaunted by nervous qualms or by over-sensitiveness.

From the first moment at the station, when the hard eyes had looked her over and the harsh voice had asked about "the girl's trunk," Sheila's sensitiveness had begun to suffer.

The quietness of his departure seemed to spare Sheila's sensitiveness.

exclaimed Amelia, sparing nobody's sensitiveness.

These remarks brought out loud protests and calls for order from the American delegates present, who manifested the usual American sensitiveness to criticism, especially on the subject of slavery; but the house sustained Douglass, and demanded that he go on.

Notwithstanding this extreme sensitiveness, or rather by reason of it, it will not oscillate, but when the load is uniform will stand quite, or nearly, motionless.

Her shrinking sensitiveness might embarrass one visitor, while another would be charmed with her easy, significant, and vivacious conversation.

" To say that these disgusting misrepresentations did not affect the consciousness and self-respect of Keats would be to underrate the sensitiveness of his nature.

Especially in the higher walks of society, where this unutterably miserable false shame of Protestantism acts in proportion to the general acuteness of the cultivated sensibilities, let no unwillingness to suggest the sick person's real need suffer him to languish between his want and his morbid sensitiveness.

The nose seems to have acquired its sensitiveness within a hundred years,the lungs their objection to foul air, and the palate its disgust at ditch-water like the Thames, within a more recent period.

so real was the trouble that could affect the feelings, the sensitiveness, of the noble being before me!

For whose moral sense, delicate sensitivenesses, generous longings, will not sometimes give way to the stringent need of food and clothing, the gall of indebtedness, and the sinking consciousness of an empty purse and threatening possibilities? Monsieur Leclerc's face brightened.

He had been apprehensive, with the sensitiveness of youth, lest his old great-aunt should make a fool of him before Clara's family.

Nevertheless, love is an engrossing sentiment, as I could feel in my own case, and it might be that its jealous sensitiveness took the alarm at even that which was so innocent and sincere.

435 examples of  sensitivenesses  in sentences