Sentence examples for Construct an identity from inspiring English sources

He wants to construct an identity for himself that has nothing to do with those real, uncomfortable things.

But the communities have got to face these questions squarely, instead of using them to construct an identity based on fear and self-pity.

The formation seeking authenticity from the Brutus Myth and the prophetic mutterings of 13th century seers, it is a truly false premise from which to construct an identity.

He has one undeniable talent, for being charismatic and charming, and he's labored, his whole life, to construct an identity around that, but he's still desperate to find a place — perhaps the White House?

That sort of culture pillaging, however, is exactly what so annoys Christian Lorentzen in Time Out: he says that they "devour gay style" and the marks of other minority cultures and that "these aesthetics are assimilated – cannibalized – into a repertoire of meaninglessness, from which the hipster can construct an identity in the manner of a collage, or a shuffled playlist on an iPod".

This music was used to create and construct an identity -- literally, the identity of a modern nation-state". Ethnomusicologists have long been contemplating the relationship between everyday life and identity and folk music -- music that emerges organically from the people.

To maintain identical numbers of markers for both the within-family relationship matrices and the matrix for the whole panel, we extracted 7386 HapMap v2 markers polymorphic in NAM and closest to the 7386 linkage marker in terms of the AGP v2 coordinates (File S8, File S9, and File S10) to construct an identity-in-state (IIS) G matrix for the whole NAM panel.

"The reasonable middle view is that constructing an identity is a good thing... but that the identity must make some kind of sense".

Obama's "Dreams From My Father" is a journey forward, about a man who took the disparate parts of his past and constructed an identity of his own.

In this view, the process of constructing an identity most clearly involves selecting materials to present to others, a process which is seen most directly in personal homepages.

"The reasonable middle view is that constructing an identity is a good thing (if self-authorship is a good thing) but that the identity must make some kind of sense.