Sentence examples for abandons himself from inspiring English sources

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

An important motif introduced by Sanāʾī is the idealization of the qalandar, a type of outlaw who defies all rules of good behaviour and abandons himself to drunkenness and debauchery.

Everyday, we take the actor through different items of clothing, and in the process the actor abandons certain images of the character that he might have had, lets go, and abandons himself to the character.

But Benjamin, who popularized this term for the detached city-stroller, also knew that the freedom of leisure could be deceptive: the flâneur is also the person "who abandons himself to the phantasmagorias of the marketplace".

One of his characters, a right-wing sociology professor, adopts a working-class alias in order to do fieldwork, only to discover that the alias, who brawls and drinks, is so much looser, warmer, and sexually richer that he abandons himself to the identity forever.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint won the Prix Médicis for Fuir, the story of a man, caught between lovers and countries, who abandons himself to jet lag and endless travel as he is called back from China to Elba by a series of coincidences that he never quite understands.

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

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

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.

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