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

Lock your homes with most complicated fastenings—greatest lock-makers in the world—burglar alarms on windows; but when you travel, expose yourselves as one wouldn't dream of exposing oneself elsewhere.

From The Blind Man's Eyes by Balmer, Edwin

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