exposing oneself
Example Sentences
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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
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
“Possibly not, Pencroff; but, I repeat, that it is exposing oneself without necessity.”
From The Mysterious Island by White, Stephen W.
