Sentences with phrase «almost physical vulnerability»

It's an instinct that drives him to pursue art with an almost physical vulnerability («You put your hands under your skin, you break your breastbone, you rip open your rib cage»), an instinct that drives him to hit high notes that he claims he can reach only in the presence of an audience, an instinct that compels him to construct a life filled with tension and paradox — a life in which he finds himself a friend of both the poor and the rich.