And yet, after she had learned to make allowances for the oversensitiveness, Bea found Lila more lovable and winning week by week. From Wordnik.com. [Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls] Reference
Some of the most common of these sick reactions with which the nurse must deal are enhanced suggestibility, repression, oversensitiveness, stubbornness, fear, depression, and irritability. From Wordnik.com. [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference
Nothing seems to have checked the constant flow of composition; yet many causes were at work to hinder it, such as ill-health, poverty, an ill-balanced temperament, and an oversensitiveness with regard to the petty troubles arising out of his injudicious mode of life. From Wordnik.com. [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference
One of the effects of safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions seem somewhat disgusting. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
She knew, too, that she had herself to blame in part; her oversensitiveness, her quick temper, her want of deep insight had all had their share in making that evening such a blank failure. From Wordnik.com. [We Two, a novel] Reference
The Democratic administration has initially created the confusion by its lack of effective leadership, by its contradictory grave warnings and optimistic assurances, by its complacency to the threat of communism here at home, by its oversensitiveness to rightful criticism, by its petty bitterness against its critics. From Wordnik.com. [Democratic Central - Front Page] Reference
The code is conventional, drawn directly from old French military life, and is not true to the line that separates real honor from dishonor, deliberate insult that wounds normal self-respect from injury fancied by oversensitiveness or feigned by arrogance; so that in its present form it is not the best safeguard of the sacred shrine of personality against invasion of ifs rights. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
She struggled to keep from oversensitiveness, from becoming unpopular by the sure method of believing that she was unpopular; but she hadn't much reserve of patience, and at the end of the second game, when Ella Stowbody sniffily asked her, "Are you going to send to Minneapolis for your dress for the next soiree -- heard you were," Carol said "Don't know yet" with unnecessary sharpness. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
"It would be absurd certainly, for me to affect any oversensitiveness about accepting the temporary hospitality of one to whom I owe it that I am not still awaiting the end of the world in a living tomb. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Backward: Chapter 16] Reference
She struggled to keep from oversensitiveness, from becoming unpopular by the sure method of believing that she was unpopular; but she hadn’t much reserve of patience, and at the end of the second game, when Ella Stowbody sniffily asked her, “Are you going to send to Minneapolis for your dress for the next soiree — heard you were,” Carol said “Don’t know yet” with unnecessary sharpness. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
"It would be absurd, certainly, for me to affect any oversensitiveness about accepting the temporary hospitality of one to whom I owe it that I am not still awaiting the end of the world in a living tomb. From Wordnik.com. [Looking Backward 2000-1887] Reference
Perhaps it was through oversensitiveness that. From Wordnik.com. [It Happened in Egypt] Reference
As civilization and culture advance, other diseases analogous to the one under consideration may be developed from oversensitiveness to sound, colour, or form, and the man of the twenty-first or twenty-second century may be a being of pure intellect whose organization of mere nervous pulp would be shattered by a strong emotion, like a pumpkin filled with dynamite. "(vide" Pollen Therapy in Pollinosis, "reprinted from the Medical Record, March 18, 1916; and many thanks to Mr. H.L. Mencken, fellow sufferer, for sending me a copy of this noble pamphlet. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.