Tom could bear a good deal himself, but he was proud of her, and pride is a sensitive thing.
The decent and sensitive thing to do is tell the president.
Everybody has their opinion about it, even though it's a sensitive thing to talk about.
Just before a death occurs, the story goes, the sound of water dripping is heard in the house, by those sensitive to such things.
I don't want to sound corny, but it's kind of a sensitive thing.
"There's a number of sensitive things," said a senior government official who has studied the evidence for more than a decade.
Before, you might have had to say clever things and do sensitive things in order to gain a lady's attention.
A change of administration was a sensitive thing, financially.
"Angela's very sensitive about things like that," her husband hastened to add.
She was strangling suddenly, wondering why she'd told this violent, fierce man such a sensitive thing.