(a.) Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
Example Sentences:
(1) Davey has made it clear there will be no attempt to compete with Classic FM, which, with its touchy feeliness and “smiling down the airwaves”, has almost treble Radio 3’s audience.
(2) Perhaps the new Marr has yet to make his touchy-feely debut.
(3) Voters looking for further nuance might have been left a little underwhelmed, not least by the expectation that world-famous analytic philosophers tend not to rely on anything as touchy feely as intuition.
(4) She also combines a refusal to do touchy-feely with a sharp eye for a populist policy – support for bobbies on the beat, for example – that has proved a winning combination in Westminster and among the rightwing press.
(5) In recent weeks he has appeared uncharacteristically downbeat and touchy.
(6) Broadcasters and production companies are touchy when asked about their policies on inclusion.
(7) The "feminisation of European culture" has been underway since the 1830s, and by now, men have been reduced to an "emasculate[d] … touchy-feely subspecies".
(8) In terms of affective complaints, patients were more depressive, anxious, touchy and irritable; their personalities showed a higher degree of emotional lability, excitement and irritability.
(9) In that time, I never achieved the serene illusion of infallibility that distinguishes Jimmy: “I haven’t been wrong about a play since 1924, and on that night I happened to be afflicted with a head cold.” He is selfish, rude, touchy, spoilt, extravagant and, in the way of such characters, much loved by his friends.
(10) And it is hard to look at the pictures, ubiquitous this morning, without a disgracefully touchy-feely, yes, I fear, even protectively feminine response.
(11) It was Mr Kohl's "touchy-feely" politics that enabled him to forge a relationship with François Mitterrand that was the bedrock of the German-French axis within the European Union and which enabled the swift reunification of Germany .
(12) On the other hand, the company appears touchy about being pressed on such subjects.
(13) As it develops, digital is becoming more touchy-feely and more sensory,” Jones notes.
(14) Since taking over at the Vatican, Francis has urged the Catholic church not to be obsessed with "small-minded rules" and to emphasise compassion over condemnation in dealing with touchy topics like abortion, gay rights and contraception.
(15) It would not be surprising if the UN is touchy about its approach to population questions.
(16) "It's a touchy subject, but as a southerner you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary.
(17) Even primary school children seem well aware that who did what in the Levant before the war is a touchy subject.
(18) It is a touchy subject for Rohingya, many of whom lack any documentation but insist that their ancestors were born and bred in the state.
(19) Among the names who have fired away are CJ Wilson, Max Scherzer, Brad Ziegler, Skip Schumaker and his Dodgers teammate Matt Kemp, who said: Talking about things like this is very, very touchy.
(20) You see this trend of self-publication: things being democratised all over the place like photography and video, but this is something that hasn’t really been democratised yet.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I can see how this might be a sensitive topic for some DJs who’ve worked hard to develop their skills over the years, only to see apps come along promising to let anyone have a bash, complete with that sync feature – a whole other touchy topic in itself – to make the actual mixing less of a challenge.
Unstable
Definition:
(a.) Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.
(2) Measurements of mechanical stability of Hb Santa Ana showed that the oxy-form of this hemoglobin was 10 times more unstable than that of Hb S and 100 times more unstable than that of Hb A.
(3) Although operative mortality was significantly greater for women during most of this review period, mortality was similar during 1983 (2.6% for men versus 2.4% for women), in spite of a significantly higher incidence of unstable angina in the female group (54% for women versus 35% for men).
(4) Similar, but less marked changes were seen in the patients unstable angina.
(5) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
(6) After the impact … I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent,” he said in his submission to the panel, which met on Wednesday, a day after Uruguay had beaten Italy 1-0 in a decisive group-stage match.
(7) The complex was found to be unstable toward low values of pH and ionic strength, concentrations of urea exceeding 1 M, modifications of the cysteine residues, and fragmention in which the C terminal portions of either H3 or H4 are removed.
(8) Then, the males with super-unstable oc-mutations were crossed with females with attached X chromosomes, supporting P-M hybrid dysgenesis.
(9) Since transcription does not take place during mitosis, the amount of protooncogene products is rapidly decreased (they are extremely unstable).
(10) We describe herein, a new unstable mutant of the vestigial locus, isolated from a French natural population.
(11) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
(12) The hypothesis that opiate agonism requires an N substituent in the axial position does not appear to be consistent with the increased potency of beta isomers in which axial N substituents are thermodynamically more unstable.
(13) These drugs are beneficial also in prevention of recurrent myocardial infarction, especially among patients with unstable angina.
(14) HPLC is of particular value in providing a means of separating unstable compounds prior to assay by relatively nonspecific quantitation methods.
(15) In a cohort of 417 patients admitted consecutively to the Coronary Care Unit for acute myocardial ischemia (unstable angina pectoris in 121, acute myocardial infarction in 296 patients) 21 cases of non arrhythmogenic sudden death occurred within 24 hours after admission.
(16) The homdr mutation is unstable and probably deleterious to the cell.
(17) It is likely that the light chains assemble normally with the HMM fragment in HMM cells, while in cells lacking myosin heavy chain (mhcA) the light chains are unstable.
(18) These findings emphasize the difficulty of identifying patients at low risk for myocardial infarction or unstable angina in the emergency room without consideration of many factors from the history, the physical examination, and the ECG.
(19) During unstable detrusor contractions, which even in these healthy women are observed during bladder filling and also during inhibited voidings through the urethra, the contraction is weaker.
(20) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.