Every scour and scrape for a morsel of emotional vulnerability, rebuffed and returned.

His candour and emotional vulnerability are like two sides of the same coin.

They are certainly good at accepting praise gracefully and with self-possession, but they often have an emotional vulnerability to the negative feelings and assessments of others, which are deeply felt.

As their emotional vulnerability grew, the prosecution sought, unsuccessfully, to persuade each to incriminate the others in return for leniency.

It's as if our hunger and our doubt impose an emotional vulnerability on the player.