Sentence examples for symbol of vulnerability from inspiring English sources
If society defines femininity as weak, and youth as weak too, then it stands to reason that the pre-adolescent female is the ultimate symbol of vulnerability.
It's something I thought a bit about too with my bronze sculptures that I paint to look like plastic – the paint works like a skin that disguises the bronze, and I think of it as a symbol of vulnerability.
(This, presumably, was intended by Auber as a symbol of her vulnerability, and that of all poor people).
An M.I.T.-educated engineer with an M.B.A. from Harvard, he may be a symbol of Republican vulnerability, but he also represents incumbency's inherent advantages, not the least being his $5.1 million war chest.
In choosing to cover them all Ms. Smith makes the point that our bodies are many things today — malleable cultural images, tools for achievement, playgrounds for scientific experiment — but also the purest symbol of human vulnerability.
They remind us of our limitations and our place in the great chain of being; they are symbols of our vulnerability, our susceptibility to random death and disaster, our primal awareness, in Mr. Quammen's words, "of being meat".
This concept "To bare one's breast," is a symbol of power and vulnerability in the best sense of the word, but we don't reserve that same right for women to bare their breasts.
At this point, their uniforms changed from being a symbol of smartness to a cause of vulnerability to abductions by the rebels.
The five most heavily indebted euro members owe German banks an estimated 700 billion euros (nearly $900 billion), and these German surpluses, once regarded abroad as a symbol of great strength, have emerged as a dangerous source of vulnerability.
No longer mere symbols of ambition and triumph, they now also inspire a sense of vulnerability, fear and mortality.
