Example Sentences

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They turn out to be a means of both self-protection and self-exposure, of safety but also danger.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2022

But gaining the understanding of employers requires the risky self-exposure Stewart studies.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2022

Calloway, for her part, does not seem conflicted about her self-exposure in the slightest; nor, really, does the journalist Lauren Duca, whose aggressive personal branding has propelled her to the level of living meme.

From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2019

Instead of encouraging the actors to use the jittery self-exposure they feel while performing as a way of burrowing into their characters’ internal lives, he keeps them trapped within the limits of his own interpretation.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019

Elsewhere I have more stamina for these things, these acts of self-exposure; I could brazen them out.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood