damage vulnerability

This year, his own aides warned against this damaging vulnerability.

But his hypnotic blue gaze and air of damaged vulnerability do it for me every time."

And that, not philandering, is the issue: whether a leading candidate could overcome behavior that even his supporters described as a damaging vulnerability.

Their embarrassing, damaged vulnerability is their strength.

Her combination of damaged vulnerability and brassy confidence won over the public and launched her as a moneymaking machine, not just for herself but for agents, publishers, editors, producers and publicists.

Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly commented that Kevin Durand "is emerging as a real find this season; he plays that mercenary part with a scene-stealing mix of menace and damaged vulnerability."