Today's diet-product advertisements still communicate this message of self-emphasis, totally apart from any actual weight loss that might (or might not) take place.
As she says with self-condemning emphasis, "There really was no pleasing me".
"Which was very nice," she added with self-deprecating emphasis, "because for once I felt very useful".
We leave the numbers to the statisticians; suffice it to say that while the mayor puts a self-referential emphasis on the positive, the city is safer now than it was a decade ago.
Thus, the postwar era was the age of the housing boom, the television boom, and the baby boom, of high birth and comparatively low divorce rates, of proliferating suburbs and a self-conscious emphasis upon family "togetherness".
Holmes purists may find the non-Victorian pace not to their liking, but then there will be a whole smorgasbord of things to bother them, like Holmes's nicotine patches, the self-conscious emphasis on text messaging and the colors of cellphone cases.
The ICD-8 and -9 diagnostic prototypes, valid until 1992, described schizophrenia as a "fundamental disturbance of the personality, which involves its most basic functions, those that give the normal person his feeling of individuality, uniqueness, and self-direction" (emphasis added).
Some researchers have reported, however, that the level of self-care and emphasis on empowerment and self-responsibility we observed is unique to CAM [ 25].
We have explained this through mediating factors often referred to as "cultural resources" or "cultural capital" [ 14- 16]: patients with a higher educational attainment are thought to be more empowered, assertive and self-advocating, putting more emphasis on self-determination and control over the end of life, and being more insistent on thorough end-of-life care and decision-making.
Simultaneously I was making a political statement and creating change with in the adult film world by focusing on the advocating of authentic expression of self with an emphasis on pleasure and connection.
And we need far less emphasis on self and self-confidence, and far more on our obligation to be humble before God.
