But are there those who for various reasons of biochemical individuality, metabolic uniqueness, specific vulnerability, liver enzyme idiosyncrasy and the like simply cannot handle these substances?
Despite the differences in culture, style and origin, an unmistakeable feeling ties the images together: a jumble of individuality and insecurity, rebelliousness and vulnerability, beauty, pain and strength. .
The old, brutalist boarding schools, making wounded, stoic little gentlemen, have little place in a society converted to ideas of emotional vulnerability, the virtues of individuality and self-expression.
The reason it works is the same reason that "Dragon Tattoo" worked: Mr. Larsson's two central characters, Salander and Blomkvist, transcend their genre and insinuate themselves in the reader's mind through their oddball individuality, their professional competence and, surprisingly, their emotional vulnerability.
In a review of "The Girl Who Played with Fire" in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani wrote that the series worked because "Mr. Larsson's two central characters, Salander and Blomkvist, transcend their genre and insinuate themselves in the reader's mind through their oddball individuality, their professional competence and, surprisingly, their emotional vulnerability".
The current renewal of interest in both Bert Williams and Stepin Fetchit — the attempt to reclaim the individuality of these once oppressively representative figures — suggests a healthy or at least hopeful progress beyond extremes of racial vulnerability.
Individuality had its limits.
Finally, he cultivated individuality.
Mr. Brown nurtures individuality.
