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vulnerable adjective accessible, approachable, assailable, attainable, beatable, capable of receiving injuries, defenseless, exposed, fallible, guardless, indefensible, liable to attack, obtainable, open, penetrable, pregnable, qui vulnerari potest, reachable, risky, unguarded, unprepared, unprotected, unsafe, unshielded, untenable, vincible, weak, woundable See also: accessible, destructible, helpless, inadequate, indefensible, insecure, liable, open, penetrable, precarious, subject, susceptible, untenable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He describes his "schizophrenic, adulterous existence, writing in English and speaking in Spanish, singing American songs at sunrise and being lullabied into sleep by the Chilean mountains in the evening, crazy about Conrad and crazy about Cervantes, suspended vulnerably between two nations and two languages" (132). During the first weeks of the war, the rapid advance on Baghdad stretched these supply lines vulnerably far. No piece quite conforms to the requirements of gallery display but instead shows itself vulnerably, an object stranded in a space. |
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