wounded feelings

Green, a four-time N.B.A. champion, said in an interview that any wounded feelings spoke to the reverence players have for Barkley and his colleagues, the former players Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith, and the veteran host, Ernie Johnson.

But let’s move beyond the wounded feelings, logistical nightmare and financial implication of losing these games, and address the elephant in the room.

Gay’s radical openness to possibility leads to subtle discernments of his errors of judgment, such as dismissing the humanity of his dead father to avoid the hurt of his own wounded feelings.

So do not damage your relationship with this couple with your wounded feelings.

But humiliation rings with fragile egotism and wounded feelings.