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Many of these stories have been reported as examples of “cancel culture” run amok or students displaying catastrophic oversensitivity.

From Slate

This was in keeping with his oversensitivity on the this issue since day one.

From Slate

Professor Loury, who frequently laments the oversensitivity of college students, said he would not send such an email now, because her comments were an opportunity for vigorous debate.

Whereas previous albums have seen Healy, who writes the band’s lyrics, battling with big-ticket issues from cultural oversensitivity to climate change, Healy, now 33 and single, has settled on what is perhaps the most challenging and fraught topic of all: love.

The common answers: running from something, raised wrong, bad genes, no willpower, oversensitivity, delicate genius, the ugliness of the world.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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