It was the fact she asked it within her own circle, shared the responses (and her own feelings directly), with brutal honesty and vulnerability.
Which is not to say his judgments were always dismissive or that he was anything less than attentive; rather, he was keeping his own counsel and doing his best to stay out of harm's way, since he found Smithers a brutal place where vulnerability was apt to be punished.
We are calling on our governments and international organisations to support Ukrainians in their efforts to put an end to a corrupt and brutal regime and to the geopolitical vulnerability of their country.
Reports by Karen and Shan women's groups have specifically documented women's vulnerability to systematic and brutal rape, including gang rape, by Burmese military soldiers who use rape as a tactic to terrorize, shame, and subjugate ethnic communities [ 16, 17].
This global epidemic of violence has had a particularly brutal effect on women and children; their vulnerability has exposed them not only as secondary victims but primary targets.
"What these surveys show is that human trafficking networks are becoming brutal and efficient at exploiting and making profit from the vulnerability of migrants," says Simona Moscarelli, anti-trafficking expert at the IOM.
His vulnerability made him an easy target for this brutal weapon of war.
As Fast Eddie, a poolroom shark, whose innate corruptness leads to a brutal come-uppance, Newman crystallised his screen persona — a blend of vulnerability and bravado, criminality and redemption — in a performance of new found maturity.
One lurid catastrophe after another engulfs Jurgis Rudkus and his relatives — so many disasters that one suspects Sinclair outfitted the family with exactly those vulnerabilities which could be most grievously exploited by a brutal society.
While the Russian climate provides a brutal reality to those without electricity, he said, Northern California has built in its own vulnerability -- making it as vulnerable as a far less advanced society.
