Sentence examples for abandoned ourselves from inspiring English sources

"While we enjoyed the pleasures of our uneasy love," begins Heloise, "and abandoned ourselves to fornication, we were spared God's severity".

As we distribute ourselves, we may abandon ourselves.

We should not ban them; but we must not abandon ourselves to them.

The postwar generation evoked by William Barrett's memoir "could abandon ourselves to the delight of irrelevant studies".

We abandon ourselves to a trancelike state of sloth, stirring only occasionally from poolside slumber to be fed, watered or massaged into an even deeper state of relaxation.

It is "on a wing and a prayer" that we abandon ourselves to the bus, he says, since we are the first intrepid coach to venture on what will be a regular overland service.

By bringing pencil sharpening out in the open, David Rees has lifted a taboo: he has given us all permission to express our love of pencils, to abandon ourselves to penicilophilia — a love that till now has always been slightly embarrassed to speak its name.

We are abandoning ourselves to the journey.

We tend to abandon ourselves all day long, through activity, distractions, pressures and demands, mindlessly driven.

The first is to let hope seep away, abandoning ourselves to despair.

But of course, that is exactly what we must attend in order to heal ourselves, not abandon ourselves.