Sensibilities

Examples

• These were young girls, like herself; some perhaps pretty, some not without a trace of her finer sensibilities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• No new calamity shall lacerate your sensibilities--sensibilities precious to me as my own. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I have to thank these pages for awakening the finest sensibilities in my nature--nothing more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She seemed encased in a strong armour of indifference, as though the vigorous exertion of her will had finally benumbed her finer sensibilities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• What fine hidden sensibilities are touched in such a case, no echoes tell; but it is so, and it was so here. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Such an exercise would, I fear, involve a considerable strain on what reformers call their moral sensibilities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Her sensibilities were so weak and tremulous that perhaps they ought not to be talked about in a book. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I didn't know what it was to be a mother; unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me, and so on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• This trivial crape expresses sensibilities which I summon Mr. Hartright to respect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Her sensibilities, I suspect, are strongand her temper excellent in its power of forbearance, patience, self-control; but it wants openness. Jane Austen. Emma.

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