woundable

That means I’ve been spending quality time in my mind’s eye with splendid creatures as different as the infinitely woundable Hamlet of Simon Russell Beale; the gleefully angry Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury, making cannibal pies together in the musical “Sweeney Todd”; or Janet McTeer as Ibsen’s Nora, an overgrown plaything realizing her entire life has been a shabby masquerade in “A Doll’s House.”

The lovers sneak off into the woods for a tryst, Lia revelling in the vulnerability she’s been raised to conquer; she finds herself “on my hands and knees and I know that bruises will come up almost immediately, that I am thin-skinned and woundable, and somewhere within me I like this, the proof, the map of this new joy.”

“I will never be so woundable again” is a common mental order we give ourselves going forward from betrayal.

Anyone who is woundable by an occasional dip in prices isn’t rich enough to count.

I've often heard Bart say that men's feelings are very woundable at forty, while at twenty-five a hurt closes up like water after a pebble has been dropped in it.