Sentence examples for vulnerable self from inspiring English sources

In videos and sculptural installations she documents solo performances in which she pits her vulnerable self against the vast and ultimately mysterious forces of the natural universe.

One senses that AJ Ayer utterly understood that when he submitted his elderly, vulnerable self to Steve Pyke's scrutiny, setting this epic project in motion.

Paul Durcan's The Art of Life (Harvill) displays an embedded poet catching the strains, hysterical and sad, of contemporary Ireland, but ready too to stare inwards at the fearful and vulnerable self.

Her long sentences are "constructed with a precision that borders on the compulsive and thus hints that language is a construction erected to protect a vulnerable self against many unnamed assailants".

From this perspective, Ellis and Bochner (2000) considered auto-ethnography as 'exposing a vulnerable self that is moved by and may move through, refract and resist cultural interpretations' (p. 739).

It is incredibly frightening to open up your most raw and vulnerable self.

Abbi, the character, is more vulnerable, self-doubting, and vestigially square.

This is deliciously incongruous stuff, and by now we've invested in its vulnerable, self-discovering protagonist.

But their descriptions of desire and ambivalence portray the vulnerable self-questioning introvert inside the swaggering tomboy.

Erica is by turns prickly, indecisive, uptight, vulnerable, self-assured and skittish: traits Ms. Keaton blends into a performance that is at once entirely coherent and dizzyingly unpredictable.

In her self-assertive, defiant, daring, and vulnerable self-revelations, Dunham takes her place in the cinematic circus with its sacred taboos, its ridicule, and its nobility.