susceptibility

in a sentence

His defects were perceived to be a certain "nervous temperament" and susceptibility to poor health, impetuousness, and acute sensitivity to criticism.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

Boukreev's susceptibility to the cold was doubtless greatly exacerbated by the fact that he wasn't using supplemental oxygen; in the absence of gas he simply couldn't stop to wait for slow clients on the summit ridge without courting frostbite and hypothermia.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

All the measurements showed us your potentialities, your susceptibility in stress situations, your vulnerabilities, to the point where it became possible for me to know how well you might or might not do in a game, in a given situation.†  (source) Robert Cormier, After the First Death, 1991

Midnight and noon and dawn and dusk are the hours of danger, susceptibility to the "grahayas"— planetary spirits of malignant character.†  (source) Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, 1982

They always think their susceptibilities are more important than non-religious.†  (source) Peter Shaffer, Equus, 1973

After Basteshaw clobbered me I took an oath of unsusceptibility.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949

A sample of his tb survived him, in a culture at the Massachusetts State Lab, where it was being tested for drug susceptibility.†  (source) Tracy Kidder, Mountains Beyond Mountains, 2003

He is happily at one with all around him, with their superstitions, their groundless panics, the susceptibilities of people whose nerves are always on the stretch; with their fixed idea of talking the least possible about plague and nevertheless talking of it all the time; with their abject terror at the slightest headache, now they know headache to be an early symptom of the disease; and, lastly, with their frayed, irritable sensibility that takes offense at trifling oversights and brings tears to their eyes over the loss of a trouserbutton.†  (source) Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947

Nonetheless, the power of suggestion is mighty, her savage bile touched in me some atavistic susceptibility, and as the bus rocked its way out onto the asphalt parking lot at Jones Beach, I found myself brooding blackly on my recent robbery.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

Conway thought it readily forgivable in one so constituted and circumstanced, but he feared it might affront the more delicate susceptibilities of a Chinese.†  (source) James Hilton, Lost Horizon, 1933

The tension of human nerves during noise, danger, and fatigue, makes them prone to any violent emotion and it is only a question of guiding this susceptibility into the right channels.†  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1942

His countrymen in the mass wounded his susceptibilities.†  (source) W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915

She was tyrannical and a snob about her Odessa luster and her servants and governesses, but though she had been a success herself she knew what it was to fall through susceptibility.†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949