Sentences with phrase «raw nerves»

As anyone who has gone through a divorce knows quite well, separation and divorce, and the negotiations that ensue during the separation, are highly charged emotional events, touching raw nerves of both spouses.

Police arrested more than 140 Native American and environmental protesters challenging an oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, a project touching the raw nerves of water and global warming, reports Dennis J Bernstein.

There is nothing raw about it, except it gets on my raw nerves.

Griff seems touch a lot of raw nerves that others can not reach.

What they really were breeding were sorry bags of raw nerves predisposed to feel threatened in situations that normal dogs can handle.

As I am somewhat on «last leg» of the adventure (73) if I have anything to encourage others it is probably only self belief, and being willing to expose raw nerves.

The Guild's latest initiative paper, Publishers» Payment and Accounting Practices Need To Keep Up With The Times, is sure to hit many raw nerves in the writerly community.

Tommy is a bundle of raw nerves, tightly coiled and brooding (a quality Hardy excels at communicating, as we have seen in plenty of other films).

Desplechin («Kings and Queen») fills his movies with raw nerves, wild tonal shifts and characters so free of cliché that you're constantly revising your opinion of them.

The cast manage to wrangle as much as possible from the material, Woodley in particular bringing some raw nerves to an otherwise blank slate, but it is ultimately not enough to rise above the film's many flaws — weird science and henchman myopia but minor among them.

Emaciated and all wide - eyed raw nerves, the level of authenticity Abdi brings to the role is nothing short of flawless.

Rachel Getting Married takes a familiar subject — the raw nerves of American family life with — and draws fresh blood.

Oddly, the raw nerves that result after another in a series of crashed rockets surprisingly give many boomers only a temporary pause before they board the next rocket.

We already knew that Russian groups used social media to pound on the raw nerves of American political discourse around race and religion.

It tells me I'm really hitting raw nerves.

Trump tariffs hit raw nerve in energy pipeline sector Oil pipelines prepare new battle tactics for environmental activists US shale forecasts are too optimistic, pioneering fracker says

Billy Bush says reports that Donald Trump is questioning the authenticity of the infamous Access Hollywood tapes have «hit a raw nerve in me.»

Touching a raw nerve in contemporary evangelical experience, Sarah Bessey reflects on the inevitable reality of walking the path of faith without having it all worked out — and at times having none of it worked out.

And when you touch a raw nerve, the critter jumps.

First, whether we like it or not, every time we speak of mission, especially with unfortunate terms such as «crusades» and «reaching the unreached», we touch a raw nerve.

A funny / perplexing / frustrating story to me is a raw nerve for the one to whom it belongs.

Nevertheless, for many Christians mercy killing touches a raw nerve.

Everyone still in the park — fan, player, coach, food vendor — is worn down to raw nerve.

She hit a raw nerve when she asked about not buying a CDM and another CB.

In truth, Kavanagh had gone stale at Stoke, and the # 1 million fee was seen as pretty generous; nevertheless his parting shot struck a raw nerve with the club's support, and he suddenly had a lot of enemies in ST4.

Commenter AR wrote: MiI: Your question hit a still - raw nerve and I am thankful for the opportunity to write about it and maybe exorcise some old pains.

I think ppl are either reading his books wrong or maybe his books just stike a raw nerve because they are just too true!

In this case, I'd say that what gives the campaign its chance for viral take - off is that it touches a (really) raw nerve and that it has an unfamiliar and quite juicy target — a high - profile corporation rather than a politician.

Wolverhampton MP Pat McFadden hit a raw nerve when he described the Bank of England as behaving like an «unreliable boyfriend».

Vilifying the Prophet is worse than that to Muslims — it hits a raw nerve.

The CHA lawsuit has touched a raw nerve in investors and supporters.

And Cuomo's push to increase the role of testing hits an especially raw nerve with politically active middle - class parents.

I realized that that outcome was because the book and its title hit a widespread raw nerve.

He constantly stood too close to me, so I found myself backing awkwardly away from the bar, and he hit a bit of a raw nerve when he described not overly liking the posh people at Henley Regatta!

Quinto also gives a fine performance, slowly becoming a raw nerve as he watches Michael slip away from him and seeing pamphlets that say things such as «Turn or burn» lying around their apartment.

He's not afraid to be vulnerable or a raw nerve.

O'Toole's performance hits a raw nerve, evoking the real horror of mental illness and a man out of control of his mind, body and soul.

The film's subtext sits like a raw nerve just below the scary happenings afoot, making this as the freshest and most relevant horror film of 2014.

He also formed Raw Nerve Productions alongside «Hostel I - II» writer / director Eli Roth and franchise producer Boaz Yakin, neither of whom, notably, is listed in the IMDB credits for «Hostel: Part III».

Helmed by first - time director Ben Affleck, and starring his brother, Casey, the film scorches a raw nerve from frame one and... Continue reading

That's the heart of the film that Gibson directs with no - bull sincerity from a script by Robert Schenkkan (The Pacific) and Andrew Knight that digs past clichés to touch a raw nerve.

«Mudbound» had hit a raw nerve.

Expect that and more from the writer / director's latest stinging triumph «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» a bleak, all - out brilliant pitch - black comedy that taps the raw nerve of America's revenge - fueled zeitgeist with its unpredictable narrative about how a mom's quest to avenge her murdered daughter upends a town.

Perhaps it's because the film strikes a raw nerve, both in terms of our fear of the unknown and of impending doom.

Lending her troubled woman - child complete emotional transparency, she's a sentient raw nerve too fragile for the rough, violent world she inhabits.

Clearly Betsy DeVos» nomination — as unqualified and as unprepared as she is — has touched a raw nerve.

The block and a half between the Yellow Rose Guest Home and the nearest shot of dope was an obstacle course, and every step was excruciating; nothing but paper - thin shoe leather separating broken pavement and raw nerve.

She is a raw nerve and the world is always trying to touch her.

Vision, Voice and Vulnerability How do you hit a raw nerve in the psyche of your audience and give them an experience like never - before?

You have the ability to touch the raw nerve of trading and show us how we can get better trader.