How To Use Touchy In A Sentence

From the outset, she is not sure she will survive this touchy encounter with a legendary fisherman who taught her everything she knows and is one tough, crusty character.
Although generally quite a touchy-feely person, I never back away from physical interaction, unless, particularly, that physical interaction should be focused on the eyeball.
His party has always been touchy on the subject of education. Times, Sunday Times
Like other rail bosses, Mr Pollard is touchy about accusations that not enough has been done to improve rail safety in the year since Paddington.
Sounds awful touchy-feely, but sometimes the most revolutionary ideas are touchy-feely.

For whatever sophistication guess hitting may require, it's also a touchy subject.
This is a touchy subject/issue/point, so we'd better avoid it.
More NYSE Takeover Faces Touchy Issues Justice Department officials will scrutinize the proposed deal for antitrust implications, though the formal launch of an investigation won't happen until the two companies file their premerger notification. Regulators Line Up to Vet Potential Deal
This is a touchy theological issue in many groups. Christianity Today
If I have just met you and really like you, you might be a bit uncomfortable since I am a bit touchy-feely and would want to hug you right out of the gate.
It's a touchy issue, I realize how complex and personal these decisions are to some people.
Hoot toot, Mistress Findlay," interposed Malcolm, as his grandfather strode from the door; "ye maunna forget 'at he's auld an' blin '; an' a 'heelan' fowk's some kittle (touchy) about their legs. Malcolm
Residential crowding on campus is a touchy topic for upperclassmen.
Annie's touchy pride, mingled with what Vassie frankly called her "impossibleness," made the situation hopeless, for the former quality would not let her efface herself, and the latter prevented her daughter being called upon. Secret Bread
Pupils will also be able to discuss touchy issues during citizenship lessons and assemblies. The Sun
Like any good doctrine, there is a sprinkling of mysticism and a touchy-feely woo-woo factor that readers can ignore or embrace.
And with Americans so touchy about their civil liberties, the Feds have to be legally covered to the hilt before they go snooping.
You mortals and your touchy-feely lovey-dovey emotions.
We were high-tech seasick in a bad way, cranky and touchy, and nobody could tell us what we would find in the bowels of the floating city. VITALS
She's very touchy about the fact that her husband has been married before.
They admit that aping the president was at first a touchy subject.
He addressed the touchy issue of European-American relations.
Other scientists are exploring personal qualities that span phylogenies and allegories: Recent research suggests that highly sensitive, arty-type humans have a lot in common with squealing pigs and twitchy mice, and that to call a hypersensitive person thin-skinned or touchy might hold a grain of physical truth. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
In fact, estate agents are extremely touchy about how much they influence ever-spiralling house prices.
If you go too slowly, the person thinks you don't want to hug them, and you have a touchy, cranky person on your hands for the rest of the evening.
Ministers are touchy about criticisms that the exams are getting easier. Times, Sunday Times
For years he's been saying that boys are sick of being bossed about by liberated mothers, and of being brainwashed into becoming touchy-feely drips who grow up to wear earrings, go shopping and get their chest hair waxed.
It is a mental discipline: it trains us to think clearly - a skill largely lost in today's emotive, touchy-feely age.
This was unsurprising, since the topic is touchy and the play controversial.
Type A, he is sweet gentle, rather simple in his life and character, a typical guy with an ordinary life that type would be in complete sense of admiration and overdose of appreciation of "you" if you ever done something all you have to do is take a look in his eyes and see if you got that horny look of "you rock my world baby" just to make sure you put an other nail inside his chest they are way easy, clingy, fall in love in the speed of light, all about touchy feely kinda stuff, don't expect personal growth or actualization of such a character, the breakups are the worst, specially if he really has nothing in his life so he'll ey6yg ow ygablich Safat: The KuwaitBlogs' Aggregator
Whether seated at piano or perched on stool with guitar, the sensitive songstress has presented pleas for a similarly sensitive male - touchy-feely, open, kind and loving.
Well, the term "self-aware" is very touchy and controversial, but that's the direction we are heading. Teaching Robots To Be Human
For years he's been saying that boys are sick of being bossed about by liberated mothers, and of being brainwashed into becoming touchy-feely drips who grow up to wear earrings, go shopping and get their chest hair waxed.
Car owners have also become so touchy and fussy about the parking space that any encroachment leads to heated arguments and bouts of fisticuffs.
Formal, exact and obstinate, he was also cold, suspicious, touchy and tactless.
Instead, the new campaign is all about touchy-feely dads competing in school sports days and non-conformist, caring soldiers.
That can happen to rich guys, particularly touchy, thin-skinned rich guys who prefer to surround themselves with yes-men.
You know how touchy he can get about the methods Mike uses to get results. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
Miller acknowledges that fans of the first record might still feel estranged from the band and understand why fans of the genre can be so touchy.
These issues need to be handled sensitively; some people might be touchy about being probed in this way. Times, Sunday Times
What did the politically correct call it now in this age of touchy-feely newspeak ? CORMORANT
It's a very touchy subject for me. The Sun
In particular, I do want to answer an earlier comment's question about "What if Boudicca had defeated the Romans?", though of course my answer will go the touchy-feely, anthropology route, not rely on military history. Great Scots
They can be a bit touchy about things like that. The Sun
You have to be careful what you say to Kevin - he's rather touchy.
Naturally, the show has its share of touchy-feely and maudlin moments, and the sort of self-examination that some of us would have a hard time acknowledging to ourselves, let alone sharing with thousands of strangers.
Nobody actually choked on their tea, but the looks of consternation reminded me that prison has been a touchy subject for a long time. Times, Sunday Times
You can't worry if people are touchy about certain things. Times, Sunday Times
The favorite dog of ancient Egyptians, this breed is incapable of barking, instead uttering a sound called a yodel, which makes them perfect for those living in an apartment with thin walls or touchy neighbors. HowStuffWorks Daily Feed
The average gondola has cost its owner about 50,000, and he is liable to be a bit touchy about the paintwork. Times, Sunday Times
Be careful what you say because he's touchy.
After all, writers normally get rather touchy about matters of contribution. Times, Sunday Times
Try to express such anger today, and what happens: touchy-feely politicians get up on a platform intended for dissidents, and bloody well agree with you.
This is a touchy subject/issue/point, so we'd better avoid it.
Blackfoot was exactly as predicted: very touchy in the mouth, and working well under pressure of neck-rein and knee. Magic's Price
This explains why the French are so touchy about their language.
Certainly, the Americans have always been notoriously touchy when it comes to the inevitable gamesmanship that is always a part of match play at every level.
So hats off to the band for going ahead with the film - particularly as they come across not as the fearsome rock warriors of popular image but a bunch of self-regarding, touchy-feely sissies.
Once viewed as a touchy-feely topic relegated to the human resources department, leadership development is now seen as a business tool that gives companies a competitive advantage.
They often lash out suddenly and for no apparent reason, and may seem to be touchy or irritable most of the time.
And, although this touchy-feely motion picture transforms Redford's character into a human being, he starts out as an unapologetic misanthrope.
They've actually hit upon a touchy topic here, so the less you let them know it bothers you, the better off you'll be.
Formal, exact and obstinate, he was also cold, suspicious, touchy and tactless.
Firebrand technology author Michael Arrington writes, "Make no mistake, the touchy-feely talk about user experience is little more than a coat of paint on top of a monumental hatred of Microsoft. In a cutthroat world, some Web giants thrive by cooperating
A proud and touchy family like the Clearys was not easy to swallow.
Be careful what you say because he's touchy.
She gave him a quick pat on the shoulder, another surprise; he wasn't a very touchy-feely person.
You have to be careful what you say to Kevin - he's rather touchy.
In Mitchell's crafty hands, the bawdy drawings become kaleidoscopic fun-fur mosaics: deliciously touchy-feely, rather than puerile or self-consciously lewd.
Television has done the touchy-feely stuff on these sons, daughters and wives in the fray, but the print media has provided the range and depth, documenting state by state the number of political families successfully grooming heirs.
Okay, I'm touchy at the moment, that goes without saying.
We are not a lovey-dovey, touchy-feely family, and I wouldn't want us to be.
He gets a bit touchy. The Sun
In any event, the White House tonight is maintaining a diplomatic silence on this apparently very touchy subject.
The star says he isn't a touchy-feely person but besotted girls queue up to cuddle him.
As the czarina informed Diderot: "You work only on paper which accepts anything, is smooth and flexible and offers no obstacles either to your imagination or your pen, while I, poor empress, work on human skin, which is far more sensitive and touchy. The Rise Of an Empress
Now that the national has gone from relaxed and comfortable to alert but not alarmed, everyone's a little touchy about who might be up to no good.
Suicide is a touchy subject for the media, indeed the coroner has a full page of guidelines on how to write about it without inadvertently promoting it.
78I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow. Quotations
8833I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow. Quotations
If a woman is touchy about one thing it is usually her age.
Well, of course, this is compassion night, touchy-feely night at the Republican National Convention.
Probably to avoid arousing the ire of his notoriously touchy band mates, he becomes more discreet and less gossipy as time goes by.
She gets very touchy if you mention the divorce.
Why was the woman so all-fired touchy about selling a pitcher? SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Among the world's major languages, none surpasses ours in its capacity to connote and convey nuances, fine-grained distinctions and subtleties -- the sorts of linguistic trickeration that help us avoid conflict while resolving disagreements about touchy subjects. Tony Phillips: English Lacks Vocabulary for Safe Discussion of Stepchildren
Everyone knows the IOC is as big a cesspool of corruption, bribery and cronyism as almost every other high-minded international organization, and the Vancouver bid presentation is as touchy-feely as one would expect: Daimnation!: Vancouver 2010
You have to be careful what you say to Kevin - he's rather touchy.
So for a video game, it is a touchy subject. The Sun
Well too bad, touchy people. The Sun
The natural body, the body as nature, and the nature of the body are three touchy topics in the realm of culture studies.
They were very touchy-feely, both laughing and really happy. Public Make Out Session
You have to be careful what you say to Kevin - he's rather touchy.
As one who works primarily with youth from the public schools, I see that they live in a pluralistic world, out of touch with both the touchy-feely liberalism and the outward trappings of Tridentine piety.
Before the Parkinsons he was never a touchy kind of guy.
Its a touchy subject because you can't group every tween as not responsable and you cant say that every tween is responsable. Should Tweens Hunt Alone?
The closest we ever seem to come is the Mulder and Scully clones populating TV, the mystical touchy-feely men paired with hard-bitten rational women. Emasculation not required at SF Novelists
QUOTATION: I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow. Quotations
Touchy-feely fabrics such as fur, sheepskin, suede, crushed velvet and silk will dominate, in deep colours reflecting their opulent nature - aubergines, olives, purples and chocolates.
He was reckless to the uttermost stretch of recklessness, all serene and quiet though his pococurantism and his daily manner were; and while subdued to the undeviating monotone and languor of his peculiar set in all his temper and habits, the natural dare-devil in him took out its inborn instincts in a wildly careless and gamester-like imprudence with that most touchy tempered and inconsistent of all coquettes -- Fortune. Under Two Flags
I'm busting myself going on every audition that I'm remotely right for, and you dump a perfectly good job because some old guy gets a little touchy-feely.
Parental involvement is a tricky and sometimes touchy subject. Intertribal: things about public education I've learned from this job
Car owners have also become so touchy and fussy about the parking space that any encroachment leads to heated arguments and bouts of fisticuffs.
Therefore it is a touchy subject for them. Times, Sunday Times
Even having grown up in a very loving, touchy-feely family, too much contact made me feel antsy, so eventually I gave one last, pitiful sniffle, told myself to get a grip, and pulled away.
The homeless can make for a touchy subject for artists.
Vague sciencey words like 'ionic' are mixed with proper science terms like 'gauss' and touchy feely New Age terms like 'yin and yang' as in the advert above. Magic Magnets
The question of how many fluent Maidu speakers remain is a touchy one, not least because many Maidu resent the notion that a white ethnolinguist may be the keeper of the linguistic flame.
In this kind of situation, touchy subjects are skirted and cones of silence descend.
But in truth, offering us more choice in how we connect with one another does nothing to redress imbalances of power, especially when social relationships are established in such a touchy-feely way.
She is just not terribly touchy-feely, and never has been.
He seems able in his batting and in his captaincy to put much of the past behind him, and to avoid touchy or petulant reactions. Times, Sunday Times
We get touchy about letting too many of these discoveries out of the bag too soon, because we want to be the first to publish them and the leading authorities on the subject.
If someone is very touchy-feely and enjoys displays of affection, they'll look for those specific cues because that's how they express love.
David Cameron's early burst of touchy-feely decontamination distracted us from Conservative Europhobia; the likes of Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine remind us that once it didn't have nearly as much purchase on the Tory soul, and it was Labour's ranks that feared the clutches of Brussels. Europhobia's no swivel-eyed Tory monopoly | John Harris
'As the owner of a bookshop, when you see someone writing in one of your books you get a bit toey [touchy],' Ellis said. Archive 2007-08-12
Diplomats from other countries were as touchy.
So this is a touchy issue and may not be true for all cases of guys.
It's Britain's latest touchy-feely anti-drugs campaign.
Some said frankly that instead of a day spent on something as touchy-feely as personal development, they should have had more time on educationally-driven sessions, on something such as the Higher Still syllabus.
Where boys and girls score comparably on cognitive skills, boys get worse grades in the touchy-feely stuff.
In a new TV ad from The Martin Agency, one of the touchy cavemen is offended that a tennis match pitting him against former star Billie Jean King turns out to be sponsored by his nemesis, Geico. Ad Track: Papa John's pie in the sky
The more than 100,000 employees he downsized can testify that he is not a touchy-feely kind of guy.
Getting touchy-feely is also good - something as small as a touch on the arm as you chat will work wonders. The Sun
Losing It With Jillian" takes what was good about "The Biggest Loser" -- the weigh-ins, the workouts, the touchy-feely fussbudget who is Jillian's co-star, Bob Harper -- and replaces it with all that oopy-goopy lard of the sorrow of being fat. NBC's 'Losing It With Jillian,' shedding tears before pounds
I really wasn't that stoked about getting into a touchy political discourse with a bunch of drunks I didn't know.
It's a real touchy-feely place in terms of affection and warmth.
Suggesting that design controls might have a racial aspect to them is a touchy topic, however it is naive to pretend that they might not.
It is touchy, feel good, fluffy legislation that does only one thing.
He's very -- what we call kinesthetic, very touchy - feely, very tactile, which is really one of the reasons that people love him. CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2003
We are not a lovey-dovey, touchy-feely family, and I wouldn't want us to be.
The frozen-hearted never enjoy touchy-feely displays of emotion, like hugs.
But, of course, Democrats have the opposite problem: Moderates - particularly white males - think Democrats are too touchy-feely and soft.
Then there are the really touchy-feely questions, seemingly plucked from a personality test.
There's been nothing since, suggesting that Fianna Fail's more touchy-feely members were no longer sure how they should express themselves in public.
Wow, you're getting pretty touchy-feely, Neal.
She only had a sarcastic and cynical servant, and a touchy hippogriff.
The thing is, me being involved with interviews and such, helps dilutes the Left's touchy-feely maternal embrace angle.
This is a touchy topic, and not just because people tend to assume that understanding is a precursor to forgiveness.
The XL2's handling is quick with conventional joysticks for roll and pitch, but not so brisk as to be touchy.
However, I think that perhaps Scots men should learn to be a bit more touchy-feely and diplomatic, say for example when they are shopping with their wives.
And having tasted success, he is touchy about the movies he accepts.
And after all that scrubbing the surface is silky soft and touchy-feely right now.
So we thought as well, but let's thank Shirley for breaking down the walls of stereotypical misconceptions about this touchy subject.
Solid waste has become a touchy issue these days, with tempers flaring up at the slightest mention of the topic anywhere.
Perhaps this can all be traced to the hand-holding, touchy-feely pop psychology that has penetrated our schools, our office buildings and our doctor's offices.
The biggest expenditure in those days was the horse feed for the fire department, a touchy subject in a town that had already burned down a couple of times by then.
This bill is nothing but touchy, fluffy, feel-good nonsense, and it is doing nothing more than promoting and legislating lying.
And that's before we get to the touchy subject of what you're going to say. Times, Sunday Times
By acquiescing to both England and Germany through the Iberian Indecision, France completely avoids this touchy issue.
Martin is understandably touchy about the negative vibe around Freshmart; a few months ago, Danny posted a sign outside Zimmerman's Discount, disassociating his store from Martin's.
But the meeting went ahead with an empty chair at the table for the touchy visitor. The Sun
His famously touchy temper will also be a target for opposition players. The Sun
They are touchy on the subject of religion and you have to pick your words carefully when talking about it.
They seem a touchy and aggressive lot and none of them seem to realize that aggression just leads to counter-aggression.
His famously touchy temper will also be a target for opposition players. The Sun
The touchy Mr K turned on his heel in disgust and departed the scene.
Lau was non-committal when asked whether he was being boycotted by the group, but agreed that reconciliation with the central government was a touchy issue.
It would seem that the MPAA are rather touchy about sex and sexuality, but aren’t too fussed about relatively strong acts of violence whereas the BBFC consider that acts of violence and sex, even unfaked and explicit sex, are acceptable for movies certificated for adults, but not really appropriate for kids. Comparing the BBFC and the MPAA, and How Antichrist Illustrates The Differences | /Film
The director of Bell Lawrie White has been in the business for 35 years and has seen his fair share of market crashes but he remains touchy about the use of the term.
The Mavericks, with 250 slaps, hugs, taps or bumps, are almost twice as touchy-feely as the Heat, who had only 134 instances of televised contact. Dallas's Secret Weapon: High Fives
Suffice to say, the authorities may have been a bit touchy.
He's fresh, an internationalist and touchy-feely with the electorate.
She has a flirty character and in one of our meetings she began to get very touchy-feely. The Sun
She gets very touchy if you mention the divorce.
He has become one of the oil industry's most influential spokesmen on the touchy political issue of global warming.
So, while everyone below me is allowed to be distraught and upset and embarrassed, and while everyone above me is allowed to get all touchy-feely with their own emotions about what I must be going through, I'm not allowed to do anything.
The self-help workshop was very touchy-feely, and made me fell uncomfortable.
Car owners have also become so touchy and fussy about the parking space that any encroachment leads to heated arguments and bouts of fisticuffs.
Then last month, in a touchy-feely gesture not typical of Britain, David Cameron announced that the British government would start collecting figures on well-being.
None of that subjective, touchy-feely stuff about the morality of acause. The Volokh Conspiracy » Birnbaum on Human Rights Watch and Israel
Even cool Capricorns can get touchy and easily upset during the Time of the Crab.
Everyone's a bit touchy about the whole thing so I decided to do a few jokes on the subject. The Sun
Race, class, culture and geographic divides are bridged by both laughter and fearless treading on touchy subjects.
But he was an imperious, arrogant and touchy bishop. The Times Literary Supplement
By fknvty, March 27, 2010 @ 8:41 pm get thee awl to greville st, the station hotel alas tuesday night is parma night give ‘em my regards. you might have to venture further afield for some decent pub rock and a few leg openers tho’, like even the iron duke in alexandria has gone fkn all touchy feely with lesbian lounge w/- a touch of techno house. pz.v. Cheeseburger Gothic » Melbourne gig.
Formal, exact and obstinate, he was also cold, suspicious, touchy and tactless.
a touchy subject
I'm just clingy and he's just extremely touchy-feely.
It somehow seemed gentler, more touchy-feely, and, well, sweeter - that is, until I realized that it would entail a bit more hardcore complexity than I'd bargained for.
Coaching has a bit of a touchy-feely reputation in some business circles. Times, Sunday Times
I guess I'm a lot more of a touchy-feely guy than I thought I was.
Sounds awful touchy-feely, but sometimes the most revolutionary ideas are touchy-feely.
Dean is an NPR liberal" doesn't fit because he doesn't come off as a touchy-feely, new-ager, which is the common perception of liberals except to Ann Coulter who sees us as evil agents of Satan. Hullabaloo
Last Sunday's Seeing Red told the truish story of Ms Atkins, the 1970s TV star-turned-hopelessly romantic, idealistic owner of a touchy-feely free-range children's home.
Yea; if you can do touchy-feely smoke and mirrors to mask the actual CONTENT of the proposed bills, maybe they can sneak this healthcare nightmare through. Michelle Obama: A secret weapon in health care reform?
Already, we Labour members are being subject to a "touchy-feely" policy questionnaire about re-engagement, realignment and forging contracts with communities. Letters: New Labour elite still don't get it
It is still a touchy subject. Times, Sunday Times
Almost certainly bad news for its competition - drug cartels are notoriously touchy about people cutting into their business.
Now, I am not so naive as to think that this is anything more than innocent touching, and, if he is anything like me, then being tactile and touchy-feely with people is nothing out of the ordinary.
People do not want them referred to as little, touchy-feely persons, because crooks, crims, and offenders is what they are.
Then you extremists can look at me through your far-right-wing-colored glasses and call this crusty old seadog a "touchy-feely liberal" for not being in lock-step with the Republicans. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
Like his son, his downfall was that he didn't have a ‘support system,’ a phrase that sounds alarmingly touchy-feely for a guy who cringes at the idea of emotional baggage
The hotel industry is not all about touchy-feely stuff, though. Times, Sunday Times
If I cry they just seem to be more affectionate, more touchy-feely, more, in some cases sexy.
Oh, but Andrew, acting touchy is my shtick!
Hooke was a difficult man, fiercely competitive, touchy, quarrelsome, and a vicious critic.
During the beginning of almost any semester or quarter on any particular campus, roommates can be an especially touchy subject.
They are touchy on the subject of religion and you have to pick your words carefully when talking about it.
She is very touchy about her past.

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