There would have been a prevailing sense, and Milton has to have been sensitive to this, that it was simply too late to write an epic of any kind on any subject.

这很明显，弥尔顿肯定意识到了这一点，这个时候写史诗，不管写什么主题，都已经太晚了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He was like his father: his father also got angry whenever he went out hunting, waging war on the birds and the beasts as if they were ferocious enemies, expending every last bit of malice in his heart while he was in the forest, and then returning home a kind, sensitive family man.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

They are fighting a new kind of trade dispute about sensitive policy issues, such as food safety and environmental protection, that were once exclusively domestic.

ECONOMIST: At daggers drawn

You're extremely funny, very sensitive, very kind and very generous.

BBC: Obituary: Michael Winner