thin-skinnedness

I assume the thin-skinnedness of some MSM types is the result of their general lack of professional principles.

Matthew Yglesias » Delicate Flowers 2007

If anything, he's supremely confident/comfortable/self-assured, thin-skinnedness aside.

What does Barack Obama really think about affirmative action? Ann Althouse 2008

That bit warning students about the content was amusing if, sadly, necessary, what with thin-skinnedness on the rise.

Archive 2006-01-08 2006

Peter Sacks, author of Generation X Goes to College, noted the extraordinary thin-skinnedness of the undergraduates he taught, and my experience has been no different.

Generation Me Ph.D. Jean M. Twenge 2006

Peter Sacks, author of Generation X Goes to College, noted the extraordinary thin-skinnedness of the undergraduates he taught, and my experience has been no different.

Generation Me Ph.D. Jean M. Twenge 2006

That bit warning students about the content was amusing if, sadly, necessary, what with thin-skinnedness on the rise.

Archive 2006-01-08 2006

I'm thinking it may just be normal human behaviour plus a bit of thin-skinnedness.

readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2004

His children and her high-strung thin-skinnedness and lack of domestic propensities have not made her as successful a home-builder as she was a stenographer.

Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

So while I don’t doubt there are a few situation As, there are a number of situation Bs: Amber may underestimate the thin-skinnedness of Ivy League grads to comments about their choice of education.

“Oh, Near Boston…” 2006

It was another matter with the children, who had in them a goodly share of Mahony’s own thin-skinnedness.

Ultima Thule 2003