Sentence examples for abandon himself from inspiring English sources

James, though tempted, chose not to abandon himself to his unreasoning passion.

Dafoe is in Spoleto for a rehearsal with one of those strong directors to whom he loves to abandon himself.

The tension between Gartside's appetite for deconstruction and his longing to abandon himself to the wordless joys of pop have nourished and tormented him ever since.

The azure water reminded the 17-year-old Gambian of his journey from Libya last year, a middle-of-the-night departure on an overcrowded dinghy in which he had to abandon himself to his faith in God.

Perhaps a child can immediately abandon himself to the current, but most older people will begin by picking out the words and phrases that seem to matter most, which is what I did after my family moved to Cairo, in October of 2011.

And this Judgment they cannot part with, it being out of a Man's power so to submit himself to another, as to give him a liberty to destroy him; God and Nature never allowing a Man so to abandon himself, as to neglect his own preservation: And since he cannot take away his own Life, neither can he give another power to take it.

He sought to protect himself against the trauma of further abandonment by pre-emptively abandoning himself.

When he sits, he collapses into himself, and, at times, abandons himself to sleep, head back, mouth open.

Each time he tried to abandon Miaomiao, he felt as though he were, in fact, abandoning himself, and the future that had been fated for him.

The Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Zizek argues, in his book "On Belief," that when God abandoned Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane he abandoned himself.

The more cracked the artist's ideas, the more they reveal the desperate seriousness of a man who abandoned himself to utopian raptures.