He is a clever bully, brutal in his criticism of others but so thin-skinned that he resorts instantly to the libel laws to cow his own critics. |
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Clearly they have never seen their thin-skinned hero actually respond to criticism. |
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Folks, I submit that somebody this immature and thin-skinned has no business dealing with even 18-year-olds. |
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She is a thin-skinned politician who has been wounded by acres of speculation about everything from her dress sense to her sense of humour. |
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Why are these defensive-sounding scientists and thin-skinned writers getting so overexcited? |
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Some of us, at certain times of our life, are very sensitive to this and very thin-skinned. |
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Nice, young, caring, thin-skinned doctors might be psychologically traumatised. |
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Yet he was famously thin-skinned and irascible, as I have good reason to remember, if any criticism became directed at himself. |
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They're hemmed in close on both sides by thin-skinned walls with the whole ocean outside pressing to enter. |
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As a result, the Marines would have to depend on thin-skinned amphibian tractors, or amtracs, barely tested at Guadalcanal. |
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The thin-skinned Indian affairs minister wants us to go back to the future to an approach that is both dictatorial and top down. |
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Both were strong personalities, highly opinionated and extremely thin-skinned. |
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The honourable member is obviously fairly thin-skinned, and I suppose one would be entitled to say if the cap fits, wear it. |
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We can no longer be pussyfooting around thinking how thin-skinned people are when dealing with the matter of national security. |
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It goes without saying that it's best not to be too thin-skinned when running for office. |
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Flat clips, for example, are used for fast and careful closure of thin-skinned natural casings. |
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They bear grudges, are thin-skinned, loud, quarrelsome, like to assert themselves, and lose their temper easily. |
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And just a few days ago I was castigating someone else for being a thin-skinned Narcissist. |
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Many rabid political partisans are so thin-skinned that any unfavorable truth about their heroes muddles their thinking. |
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I'm alarmed that people over the age of 16 can act so unpleasantly towards their fellow humans, but I suppose that makes me naive and thin-skinned. |
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From a notoriously thin-skinned TV celebrity to an ageing novelist of the club generation, the pastiches are as transparent as they are hilarious. |
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He was paranoid, obsessive, perfectionist, thin-skinned and self-righteous, and his diary is the long story of a man going mad and taking forty years over it. |
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It became apparent that the thin-skinned Barroca in some low south facing locations had suffered from dehydration. |
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That can happen to rich guys, particularly touchy, thin-skinned rich guys who prefer to surround themselves with yes-men. |
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But I see from him an amendment on the order paper which causes, I am bound to say, and I am not a notoriously thin-skinned old hack, a slight frisson in the Commissioner for External Relations. |
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Only the most thin-skinned and histrionic of Malaysia Airlines' customers could conceivably claim to be offended by this pablum. |
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Aggressive self-abasement, grandstanding, veiled abuse, genuine thoughtfulness, thin-skinned pandering — it's all there. |
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For these self-righteous and thin-skinned folks, there are apparently limits to the liberal virtue of tolerance. |
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We are wasting time in this House of Commons chewing up debate time because the Conservatives are so thin-skinned and have reacted to one case where a judge did his job and the minister did not. |
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Currently the ships we have in the Canadian navy are relatively thin-skinned because they're designed to be fast, they're designed to be light, and they're designed to operate in different types of environments. |
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The point is, politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up. |
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To build fires and shelters and to hunt with more than the hands and teeth were essential to the survival of a thin-skinned, relatively weak creature. |
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But when he goes behind the curtain and sheds the costume, a flinty, thin-skinned, immature man who has never taken responsibility for his mistakes emerges. |
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The thin-skinned tangerine is among the sweetest and juiciest of citrus fruits, making a splendid marmalade that escapes the confines of breakfast. |
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The berry of Merlot is relatively thin-skinned and somewhat prone to rot. |
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The structural pattern of the Tabular Jura, located between the Southern Black Forest and the Folded Jura, reveals a superposition of extensional Basement faulting and thin-skinned detachment in the sedimentary cover. |
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This is the thin-skinned Gucci model Franco who hurls tweeted insults with the churlish gusto of Kanye West. |
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It prompted talk Quinn was thin-skinned and gave the ads more attention. |
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You must handle thin-skinned fruits carefully to avoid bruising them. |
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Some will caution you at great length about the dangers of Vodou. They will tell you that the lwa are jealous, thin-skinned, and hot-tempered. |
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Others dislike his thin-skinned haughtiness and infuriating evasiveness. |
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She's rather thin-skinned when it comes to comments about her work. |
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