Sentence examples for assailable from inspiring English sources

In that, it is a deeply pessimistic presentation of human nature as assailable, and in Clay's case, incapable of transformation; but also, perhaps, an unflinching study of evil.

But what makes them assailable also makes them valuable.

Claire Foy, although costumed like a garage mechanic, conveys Lady M's increasing isolation from her husband and even gives an involuntary shudder when he chillingly says of Banquo and his son: "They are assailable".

Even when the particulars of his argument are easily assailable, the gist is clear: Now that a cornucopia of Internet material has been made available without fee, and in some cases without scruples, the smart business must find ways to adapt to that new reality.

Now he undertook his own meditation on monomania -- on how, in his "frantic morbidness," Ahab came to identify with the whale "not only all his bodily woes, but all his intellectual and spiritual exasperations," until "all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick".

These are both defensible-and assailable-positions.Robert Cottrell Deputy Editor, Economist.com, The Economist Newspaper,.