exposing oneself

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“There is an often-subtle difference between being aware of current events and unnecessarily exposing oneself to aversive details about them,” Lowe said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2020

The dream, explains Bianchi, was about dream sharing itself -- "a fear of exposing oneself in the dream world, of being psychologically vulnerable."

From Time Magazine Archive

I went to the front room and advanced cautiously to the side; there were no curtains and it was hard to get to the far windows without exposing oneself to view.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

“Possibly not, Pencroff; but, I repeat, that it is exposing oneself without necessity.”

From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.

By exposing oneself to heat in the tirtha called Vindhya, a person devoted to truth and endued with compassion for all creatures should then betake himself to austere penances, actuated by humility.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan