She sang with supple Mozartean phrasing and conveyed the wistful tenderness of the vulnerable character.
We wanted to take Barry on this journey from the most vulnerable character to the most badass kind of John McClane character, and Michael did it very well.
"Hitchcock built up his power over Fontaine while keeping her nervous and vulnerable enough to enhance the nervous, vulnerable character she was playing," Patrick McGilligan wrote of Hitchcock in his 2003 biography of the director.
But Golding, the former school teacher and author of Lord of the Flies, a surprise bestseller, was a much less worldly and more vulnerable character.
Judi Dench is especially good; playing a vulnerable character, for a change, she allows her habitual toughness to give way to uncertainty, fear, and moments of gathering resolve, and she delivers one of her most wide-ranging and moving performances.
"Suarez has shown his dark side and his vulnerable character," he said.
But Maude was such a vulnerable character.
Radiohead were fans of the show, and connected with the Robin character; Jonny Greenwood described him as "affectionate" and "vulnerable", while Yorke admitted that he found Robin "quite the vulnerable character, but he's also violently cynical and quite tough and would always get up again".
The argument these movies implicitly make — on behalf of their eccentric, vulnerable characters and also against bigger, coarser, more ordinary kinds of cinema — is for the supreme value of idiosyncrasy.
Watching her is like riding an express train into the inner life of her (usually) high-strung, vulnerable characters -- a decidedly unsettling but fascinating place to be.
