“The other thing that I remember was that he was very touchy, very sensitive. He could fly into the most fearful tempers and, when he did, all his body seemed to jump about as though it moved on wires.”
“One must choose one's words carefully when speaking to a touchy boss.”
“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.”
“People like Jeff York are touchous, and they are especially touchous about their women-folks, and you do not make jokes with or about their women-folks.”
“He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn't do to push him any.”
“Pragmatic charmer with the purse Election foretaste Watch that tactician ReprintsMr Meciar could not have picked a touchier subject.”
“The Germans seem touchier than others about spying. America is itself reconsidering the balance between security and freedom.”
“It was not a good idea and it didn't work. This statement caused a furore in Berlin, where politicians are even touchier than their Hungarian counterparts about references to the second world war.”