1.   The dark gray elms stood against the sky like exposed nerves.

2.   Annie has been played tougher, but Henner spends most of the evening making the character an exposed nerve.

3.   A portrait of the artist as an exposed nerve.

4.   But in Manhattan, Kansas, the exposed nerve of intimacy allows the town to feel the trauma of each big event.

5.   For seven months, the Tawana Brawley case rubbed raw every exposed racial nerve in this country.

6.   From the outset, this Regina is a welter of exposed nerves.

7.   Haran writes her own books, and she writes social comedy with exposed nerve ends.

8.   He had a wonderful instinct for touching the exposed nerves of an exposed nation and soothing away its fears.

9.   Israel is a nation with exposed nerves, straining its ears from one news bulletin to the next.

10.   It remains an exposed nerve.