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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abandons herself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who gives in to their emotions or desires, often in a context of surrendering to a feeling or experience.
Example: "In the midst of the music, she abandons herself to the rhythm and lets her body move freely."
Alternatives: "surrenders herself" or "loses herself".
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When one of the guests, Gretta Melissa Gilbertt), abandons herself to an awareness of life's ephemerality, the effect is haunting.
Sheba engages in a self-destructive affair with a 15-year-old pupil and blissfully abandons herself to the secret tryst until Barbara rumbles them.
She abandons herself to an "egoless, empty, Zen-like state of mind" while recapturing the love for driving she fleetingly enjoyed in her youth.
Only with her do we begin to feel here the final turn of the "Giselle" screw, that Giselle the ghost still so loves dancing that instead of trying to save the energies of her beloved Albrecht she sometimes abandons herself to the air and cannot help luring him to final immolation.
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Of abandoning herself to whims and vices: parties and gambling.
She abandoned herself to her characters like a method actor.
Like much of Italy, Dalser abandoned herself to him body and soul.
To them the notion of a woman's abandoning herself to such passion is almost inconceivable.
Certainly the Countess herself (Felicity Lott) came closer to abandoning herself physically to this Cherubino than in any staging in memory.
Joan Sutherland never abandoned herself to a role as Callas did, because to do so she regarded as almost morally reprehensible.
Having lost her much-loved husband in a car accident, Sammar has completely abandoned herself to grief.
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