Bullies are revved up, overpowering aggressors and their victims are defenseless, self-loathing kids.
Gwyneth Paltrow gives Margot the faraway haze of a spent force; with her eyes so rich in mascara that she must have been taking tips from a panda, and with the sad, swish perfection of her Fendi mink, she seems smaller and more defenseless than her earlier self, whom we glimpse in a flurry of flashbacks.
It gave me a way to connect with her where the tone was neutral and our real selves could show, relaxed and defenseless.
While Jabbar was paving his road toward the Hall of Fame with his sweeping, signature skyhook that left opponents defenseless, Manigault was setting a course for self-destruction on the same mean streets where he would become a folk hero.
If we learned anything from Sept. 11, surely it is that there is a reason to worry when politicians hijack religion -- just as we've learned from the church's scandal of the dangers that abound when religious leaders value political self-preservation over protecting the defenseless in their flock.
If these masks were to be violently torn away, what would be exposed is not my true self but the spectacle of a wounded and defenseless man.
Portraits of the United States as a lonely, self-absorbed bully taking out its rage on defenseless Afghanistan are on the rise.
When Stafford, the self-help guru who cannot help himself, thumps a defenseless woman and slings her out of the house, we crawl stealthily in her wake, toward the open door.
Cassavetes films Rowlands, his wife, with self-deprecating adoration; the demanding man likens himself to the defenseless boy, and both are saved by this gloriously burdened woman who would kill for them.
Nor did she see herself as defenseless but rather as the beneficiary of a good upbringing, as a self-reliant working woman and as someone who stood her ground.
