defensiveness

How To Use defensiveness In A Sentence

• At the same time, his nervous defensiveness when he insists that Martha wear protective glasses under her sunlamp reveals a man terrified of his own feelings.
• They'll scream class warfare, but in light of the charges it starts to sound like sniveling defensiveness.
• You can and will overcome what appears to be trauma-related hypervigilance and tactile defensiveness. Times, Sunday Times
• Don't let your defensiveness about it shut down a pivotally important discussion though. Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning Sundance Interview THE RUNAWAYS – Collider.com
• Anybody who votes for any reason other than pure defensiveness is a fool. Matthew Yglesias » Profiles in “Courage”
• She thinks that the brothers' staccato speech stems from emotional defensiveness. Times, Sunday Times
• This is the real problem: not a handful of big-mouthed animal-lovers in anoraks, but a defensiveness about research at the heart of government and the scientific establishment itself.
• Occasionally, and in spite of his equanimity, his defensiveness is acute.
• And so I think there's a certain defensiveness, a certain closing ranks around Barack Obama. Op-Ed: 15 Bleak Years Since The Million Man March
• What began as bewilderment at the surprise attack turned rapidly to seething defensiveness. Christianity Today