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.
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".
Gatsby literally dreamed and affirmed himself into success.
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".
Green contends that this good is pursued because it affirms man to himself as a rational, self-satisfiable human being (PE 279).
Asturias himself affirms that he "wrote without a social commitment".
Yet Truffaut himself affirmed that his work was "more instinctive than intellectual".
