Woundable

But no matter where you got them, they all have one thing in common: they are people—vulnerable and woundable—who need shepherds who love them unreservedly. ❋ Lynn Anderson (2007)

He felt himself colour at the question, and then hated that — hated to pass for anything so idiotic as woundable. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Their months together had given him an impression that his associate was in some ways, down below the haughtiness, quite woundable. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

What he saw, amazed, was that she stood there as lonely and woundable as any other human creature. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1994)

We're only eight, only human, woundable flesh and sheddable blood. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1989)

How innocent she looked, childlike, woundable even now, even after everything she had endured. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 (1983)

He felt himself colour at the question, and then hated that -- hated to pass for anything so idiotic as woundable. ❋ Henry James (1879)

If it's all very graphic you've got a bunch of simulations or special effects, and I've never been convinced that that is as effective as what an audience will do to feel compassion for the woundable body of another person. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Few performers are so thin-skinned, both woundable and wounding. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If as recently as the end of the Vietnam War people were still balking at the idea that a soldier, for example, could be physically disabled by psychological harm — the idea, in other words, that the mind is not an entity apart from the body and therefore just as woundable as any limb — we now find ourselves having to make an equally profound and, for many, even more difficult leap: that a fellow creature as ostensibly unlike us in every way as an elephant is as precisely and intricately woundable as we are. ❋ ScienceWoman (2006)

He had done and said everything to wound all that was woundable in an ordinary secretary, and though Jones fortunately dwelt in a region from which he looked down upon such a man as he might look down on the blundering of a savage animal, the strain had nevertheless told severely upon him, and he reached home wondering for the first time in his life whether there was perhaps a point beyond which he would be unable to restrain himself any longer. ❋ Algernon Blackwood (1910)