Sentence examples for affirming oneself from inspiring English sources

As an African medical student supporting her studies in Rome by housecleaning for an expatriate British pianist (David Thewlis), Ms. Newton conveyed, in a single slow twist of her fingers across her lips, as much fascination with an alien culture, as much awareness of the temptations of both losing and affirming oneself through desire, as the passionate declarations of Mr. Thewlis's character.

The goal is to be able to affirm oneself without an over-emphasis on how we imagine we are seen by others.

Capacity to support oneself financially.

Many authors have challenged Ricoeur's view by proposing a distinction between recognition (of oneself as well as of others) and "identification": Whereas we identify an X as an X without necessarily affirming it as (and because of) X, recognition requires a positive evaluation of X.

It's career affirming.

It was very affirming.

Affirming my love, Dr. Carmen Harra.

Find an affirming Pentecostal church.

Each individual's existence as an autonomous being must constantly be re-affirmed through the story one tells oneself, and the greatest danger is the possibility of losing one's personal narrative and becoming completely empty inside.

One suggests that people who are similar to oneself are more positively reinforcing because they affirm one's own viewpoint (Byrne, 1971); the other suggests that we use our own viewpoint as an anchor to determine what might be good behaviour, then use this value judgement to determine whether or not another person is likely to be a trustworthy friend (Kaplan & Anderson, 1973).

But Zwingli affirmed it.