Sentences with phrase «vulnerable man fought»

Robert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own — a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political adventurism — to describe how one clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the top.

Not exact matches

A little thought about natural law makes clear that there is no other species than man so endowed with the possibilities of its own protection and thoughtful promulgation; no other species that can display such a reverence for life that it can fight against the dying of the light; no other that can so protect its weakest, most vulnerable members.

If such a man can reclaim his soft, vulnerable, feelingful side, and the woman her rational, assertive, analytic side, they will no longer need to either worship or fight these sides of themselves in each other.

Though it is a more cushy assignment than infantry, the tasks prove to be very perilous, as they must travel along with the men while on dangerous missions, while also fighting along with them, especially vulnerable to ambush.

She is vulnerable and just a little naïve — at least enough to believe that she can fight her blossoming attraction to this man who knows all the right things to say.

So he feels vulnerable when he's guilt - tripped by the mother of a promising young man killed during the apocalyptic fight between the Avengers and Ultron.

But how does an unbreakable man fight someone who can render him completely vulnerable?