"affirm himself" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It means to assert oneself or to confirm one's own beliefs, values, or sense of self. Example: Jack struggled with self-doubt, but he knew he needed to affirm himself in order to succeed.
It is about the courage of Justice Thomas to affirm himself and his fellow citizens despite history and to do the right thing despite the idolatry that has diverted our contemporary jurisprudence into "the splitting of the political middle".
The violent solution to poverty, Ion Vianu proposes, may have reflected his appreciation for Félicien Champsaur's L'Arriviste, in which the protagonist uses murder to affirm himself socially.
Despite being given a chance to affirm himself in pre-season with Ricketts away on international duty, it was Ricketts who started the 2005 06 season as first-choice goalkeeper.
She urges Tom to affirm himself in spite of his loneliness, and teaches him that being true to himself rather than beholden to the opinions of others is an essential survival skill.
Thus, a patient suffering from a disordered sense of self continues to be a subject of awareness and to affirm himself or herself with the first personal pronoun "I".
Bently Spang, an Indian of mixed blood who lives in Billings, Mont., believes he can best serve his people by affirming himself as a contemporary artist.
If she has a current beau who affirms himself, as he must, by aggressive initiation of sexual interaction, she won't tell me about that.
Gatsby literally dreamed and affirmed himself into success.
Rather, it's about affirming himself - about being recognized as communicating per se which, in a way, is taken to be more important than the substance of what he is saying.
As Brecht affirmed, "Man makes himself". I will show that, like the German playwright, Usigli utilizes impersonification to isolate a particular form of crisis of history.
Strictly speaking, he does not himself affirm anything in his dialogues; rather, it is the interlocutors in his dialogues who are made by Plato to do all of the affirming, doubting, questioning, arguing, and so on.
