Holly added that she wanted to write someone she could relate to, someone who was "brave" in a different sense: a vulnerable person with inner courage.
At the same time, he explores the uncontrollability of that very grief, Maureen's utter dependence on signs from the dead, the tethering of an employee to the sudden orders of a capricious employer, the sense of vulnerable helplessness caused by the arrival of unexpected digital communications.
It was an incongruous interlude, I sensed how vulnerable we were in that small craft bobbing on the cold and restless sea.
They must have sensed my vulnerable state, because they were immediately obnoxious.
It's the sense of how vulnerable we are".
It risks people having less and less of a sense of being vulnerable.
Some FIFA observers said the soccer clubs had long been reluctant to take on FIFA, but now sense it is vulnerable because of the corruption allegations.
For all the aplomb Coward radiates, there's the sense of a vulnerable man flexibly doing whatever it takes to win your applause.
It makes no sense that a vulnerable, autistic man was ever branded a cyber-terrorist – a nonsense that the government must now end.
(For a chilling sense of how vulnerable a journalist's data would be if targeted by sophisticated surveillance, read "Dragnet Nation," by Julia Angwin, an investigative reporter, formerly at the Wall Street Journal and now at ProPublica).
