The smaller, more defenseless salamanders remained in the newly restored area, but over time, the larger ones returned to join them.
Its beauty left its readers all the more defenseless against its horror.
"There is perhaps no victim more defenseless than a newborn child," the Manhattan district attorney, Cy Vance, declared when he announced Rodriguez's indictment.
Is it that writers are more defenseless?
"We're more vulnerable to it, more defenseless.
He had hit it and killed a hundred or more defenseless people.
The league's new rules are intended to protect defenseless players, and who is more defenseless than someone with an inadequately masticated hunk of pork tenderloin lodged in his trachea?
"Sun Don't Shine," a dreamily compelling lovers-on-the-lam movie, unspools like a Françoise Sagan novel: purposefully, enigmatically and with a raw emotional purity that makes its volatile central couple appear even more defenseless than they really are.
And on the very last page of "Stroll" he, in a sense, tells us what he's been up to in the volume: "I dreamt that a man was looking back over the anamorphic landscape of dreams, and his gaze, though hard as steel, splintered into multiple gazes, each more innocent, each more defenseless".
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.
