Mike Keefe / The Denver Post / Cagle Cartoons
The Machiavellian Temptation
By DAVID BROOKS
Today's advice culture would like to define us and direct our natural tendencies. But if you really want to change your life, you must commit to some larger global belief.
vul·ner·a·ble (vŭl'nər-ə-bəl)
adj.
- Susceptible to physical or emotional injury.
- Susceptible to attack: "We are vulnerable both by water and land, without either fleet or army" (Alexander Hamilton).
- Open to censure or criticism; assailable.
- Liable to succumb, as to persuasion or temptation.
- Games. In a position to receive greater penalties or bonuses in a hand of bridge. In a rubber, used of the pair of players who score 100 points toward game.
[Late Latin vulnerābilis, wounding, from Latin vulnerāre, to wound, from vulnus, vulner-, wound.]
vulnerability vul'ner·a·bil'i·ty or vul'ner·a·ble·ness n.vulnerably vul'ner·a·bly adv.
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