self-identification

Definitions

Examples

• We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

• Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

• For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

• I went into the audition as Fericito, the Venezuelan percussionist, and then I did a self-defense expert.

• Those who come to the Dinner Party are self-selecting; they do want to talk about it.

• Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

• Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

• At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

• But to wave this discourse of Heathens, how many self-contradicting principles are there held among Christians?

• Jean grinned and dribbled self-consciously, and showed his two little teeth to the proudest father in the world.