The intake of blood turns Bat Boy into a whirlwind of eclectic knowledge and a model, incidentally, of the reconstituted, perfected American self, asserting its vindictive intellectual triumph: I'm gonna Vince van Gogh them And Henry Thoreau them, And Plato, And Cato, And Edgar Allan Poe them... Gonna Jackie O them, Marilyn Monroe them Botticelli, Machiavelli, Larry, Curly and Moe them!
These findings, albeit only among American and Japanese, suggest that 3-year-olds tend to self-assert in an aggressive fashion.
The viewer is filled with tenderness for this child who can scarcely see how lovely she is in all her ruthless self-criticism, asserting "her right to be the author of herself", to quote the 70s rhetoric.
Mr. Olmert's statements have been not only supportive of the left; they have been highly self-critical, asserting that his earlier views, the ones on which he was brought up, were just wrong.
Administration officials deny that politics have been a factor in any decision to reduce American forces and accelerate Iraqi self-government, asserting that these steps are being taken to reduce Iraqi support for the attacks on American and other occupation forces.
Through an analysis of what is said and how it is presented, as text, design and hyperlinks, I show how individuals are positioned by corporate discourses yet manage to carve a sense of self to assert professional credibility.
But of course there was no chance for her to rethink any of this, and so there was no chance for another of her talents — saving people from their worst selves — to assert itself.
Bibó's "crime" was authorship of a memorandum on the possible solution of the "Hungarian question", of how to find a compromise between János Kádár's regime, shored up by Soviet bayonets, and the national self-determination asserted by the 1956 revolution.
I persuaded John Major that it was better to try to let self-regulation assert itself and the press took it on, and set up the Press Complaints Commission". In 1995, "by a whole range of coincidences", Wakeham, newly out of government, became PCC chairman, and for the second time in his life, found the perfect playground for the intuitive negotiator, the man who likes to make things run smoothly.
To lead a morally significant life, one's actions must express a self-consciously asserted will.
For people such as Thembisa Nkuzo, the strike was a way of saying that the ballot box no longer offered much hope of asserting self-worth.
