He explained: "I can't accustom myself to the idea that I don't care".
For forty years, in large social groups, I'd accustomed myself to feeling like the problem.
More than my inexperience with programming techniques, however, it was the utter heterogeneity of reporting styles that took me a while to accustom myself to.
"I had to accustom myself to the public gaze, which I found intrusive and hard to endure," she said in a speech at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands two years ago.
I've accustomed myself to the taste of diet root beer, to no longer being any fun at parties and to rudely turning back sommeliers when they glide up to my table in ritzy restaurants, and for what?
On a gut level, I'm still inclined to do that, but now that it has been made stark for me how much of the fate of the physical book may rest on Barnes & Noble's shoulders, I do wonder if I won't poke my head into the B&N now and again, to make certain purchases and begin to accustom myself more to the B&N brand.
Having been raised a Venetian, it took me a while to accustom myself to Sicilian cuisine.
This was a question I'd accustomed myself to answering in the positive.
But as I accustomed myself to the fact, I hope that our lives made the lives of others easier to bear.
Aristide Bruant, legendary balladeer and owner of cabaret Le Mirliton, initiated him to Montmartre: "I am against my will leading a truly Bohemian life and am finding it difficult to accustom myself to this milieu" (3 ).
"You know, I'm just getting accustomed to this myself," he says.
