Sentence examples for acknowledging vulnerability from inspiring English sources

They're often profoundly uncomfortable with acknowledging vulnerability.

There wasn't much countercultural chic in unalloyed tragedy, and acknowledging violence and discrimination was acknowledging vulnerability, both personal and subcultural, and vulnerability was at odds with the wry detachment that was second nature, but that also felt like the only way of being strong.

Such uses were almost always discussed humorously, suggesting perhaps the difficult tension between acknowledging vulnerability and need, and defending a valued, competent self-image: I can do dopey old dear or I can do strong old lady, which one do you want?

The concept of successful ageing focuses on overcoming problems, in contrast to the concept of resilience, which can acknowledge vulnerability.

Hence, the 'masculine protest' may rather be a protection from a professional culture in which it is hard to acknowledge vulnerability and uncertainty as a physician.

The first is that of managing unrealistic expectations in order to support doctors to maintain high standards of functioning and to acknowledge vulnerability and fallibility to selves and others in appropriate ways.

In recent weeks, Mr. Kelly's opponents — particularly the campaign of Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney — have questioned whether Mr. Kelly has implicitly acknowledged vulnerabilities by distancing himself from his role in Facebook's major privacy decisions, a contention the Kelly campaign denies.

Because the American political leaders and the public have not been comfortable with acknowledging our vulnerability and the need to take defensive action that would change civilian life.

Tacitly acknowledging his vulnerability to harsh portrayals in a barrage of Mr. Bush's advertisements over the past month, Mr. Kerry urged Democrats at a $25,000-a-plate breakfast at the "21" Club in Manhattan to help him paint his own portrait.

While there is value in acknowledging human vulnerability and dependence, Carlson observes, feminists should be as concerned about placing persons with intellectual disabilities in such mirror roles as about making third world feminism a mirror for Western feminism (Carlson 2009; also see Narayan 1997).

Acknowledging the vulnerability of age and the need for one another, these seniors are organizing and creating their own communities in the form of living facilities, community organizations, bar establishments and so forth.