The act of forming an identity requires that I identify something or someone beyond me – with one or more categories of persons, acts, ideals, values or social systems.
When Misogynies was published in 1989, I believed I had identified something that was on the way out.
"It was very democratic," says Ypma. "I think Calderwood identified something very interesting about travel – if you always travel first class you'll never meet anyone interesting – you're just cocooned.
None of these, sadly, is either Marlowe or Shakespeare, or even Harold Bloom, but their example demonstrates, I think, that the disputatious professor identified something profoundly important for our understanding - such as it is - of creativity and its mysteries.
That did make me think, because they identified something about me that is true - I do like working with other people.
NASA has identified something 13.4 billion light-years away, as the farthest thing observed in space.
Although some scientists estimate that perhaps as many as five million fungal species are alive today, we have only identified something close to 100,000 species.
In any case, Mr. McCoy has shrewdly identified something that mainstream emo has in common with alternative hip-hop: wordy, self-conscious lyrics.
In This Changes Everything, climate change activist Naomi Klein identified something that few people would openly admit, but most know deep down.
"Sometimes, seldomly, we'll read an academic article, and an academic has identified something," Sauter says.
Whilst all participants identified something they wanted to achieve in their work, such as outcomes that benefited others, their definitions of success varied.
