noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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But their work represented an incomplete commitment to the new sensibility .
religious
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Efforts were made to anticipate religious sensibilities .
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Local religious sensibilities must also be observed.
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But these ideas were equally powerfully present in reformers of more obvious religious sensibility .
■ VERB
offend
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Like all artistes, he is a sensitive man and you never offend his sensibilities .
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Politicians have perceived little gain in granting petitions for something that offends the sensibilities of a significant number of the heterosexual majority.
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They couldn't all just reject facts because they offended their sensibilities .
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Even the mayonnaise has no egg in it, so as not to offend vegan sensibilities .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Very few people have the refined sensibility needed to appreciate these paintings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the anti-army writers also showed a need to appeal to the sensibilities of their Tory allies in Parliament.
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Correspondence is, for me, a luxury which stirs my sensibilities, especially if it be with an old friend.
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From the first moment we spoke I knew you were a girl with great sensibility , and I admire you very much.
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His secular, rationalist sensibilities created an ideal of liberalism based on the individual pursuit of self-interest.
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The important question is not how popular cultural sensibilities shift but why they do.
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There is the fallible narrator, escaping his past, indulging his dandified sensibilities, inevitably sucked into danger beyond his understanding.
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Trust your own palate and your own sensibility .