Dressed in finely wrought taffetas and millinery by the costume designer Rachel Ford, Ms. Shanks finds in this heroine depths of vulnerability and moral courage beneath the polished manners and wit.
Applying the "evolving standards of decency" that has long been the court's test under the Eighth Amendment, Justice Stevens wrote for the majority that there was now a national consensus that executing retarded people was inappropriate given their reduced moral culpability and greater vulnerability to wrongful conviction.
The mixture of moral authority, courage and vulnerability that she brings to her depiction of Hill leaves little doubt as to who the producers ultimately thought was telling the truth in this epic he-said/she-said confrontation.
Energy access is as much a moral imperative as is cutting vulnerability to climate-related hazards.
The non-criminalisation of trafficking victims should be recognised not only as a legal requirement but as a moral right which recognises the vulnerability of the victims and the abuse they endure".
Kittay, Eva Feder, "Vulnerability and the moral nature of dependency relations", in Feminist Theory: A Philosophical Anthology, Cudd, Ann E. and Andreasen, Robin O. (eds)., Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
It's heartening to see this vulnerability -- this moral, psychological, visceral allergy -- to violence, even (or especially) in those who are meant to be most immune, those who actually risked something.
But I also see certain vulnerabilities in American moral resources and reasoning per se, notably the risk under conditions of fear that we will follow Dick Cheney in reducing all morality to the question of what will provide 100percentt security for the American people.
The three of them bicker convincingly — Baggott has a sharp ear for the swagger and the vulnerability of adolescence — but their moral compass is unwavering.
The events of the last weeks, said Dr. Arthur Kleinman, a professor of anthropology and psychiatry at Harvard, have posed "a fundamental emotional, intellectual and moral challenge" to a country unused to vulnerability.
