raw nerve
Example Sentences
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Chatting with Park, 38, and Stella, 20, it’s clear how they are able to hit that raw nerve, in part because it feels like you are talking to two versions of the same person.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
Miraculously enough, our book hit a raw nerve in Chilean society.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2023
Cortellesi, who directed the movie, said her work swept up audiences “beyond the ordinary, precisely because, as I have been saying, it hit a raw nerve in the lives of everybody.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
For many Arabs this hits a raw nerve.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2022
Hard scales brush past my raw nerve endings.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
