Sentence examples for affirms itself from inspiring English sources

The Godfather is a temptation of Christ for Nietzschean times – when the Don is dead, will-to-power affirms itself as a "yes!" to criminal life.

Furthermore, where Hegel takes the work of the negative to be dialectic's driving power, Deleuze declares that difference is thinkable only as repetition repeating itself (as in Nietzsche's eternal return), where difference affirms itself in eternally differing from itself.

From primitive appetites which involve a precursor self that affirms itself through its desires we arrive at a variety of types of actions and of objects of volition and different relations between the self and the objects.

It only "affirms" itself in that it puts its will into the world as its appetites and desires respond to sensible objects and in this its unarticulated objective is to possess the thing it desires.

In the context of the 21st century global politics -- as the Chinese renaissance affirms itself as the world's major factor of change -- the apprehension it generates around China and beyond, in the West, has to be defeated before it induces the follies of confrontation.

Trilling found that modern art defined and affirmed itself in negation.

In the centuries since French celebrities began washing up on its shores, Russia has used them to affirm itself as a center of European culture, as well as to poke its finger in the eye of Western nations.

It opened its eyes and said, "Yes, I'm a mermaid," affirming itself with clarity.

However, at this stage we have at best a very primitive precursor of the self and it can only be said to affirm itself.

Century of Progress provided an opportunity for the Adler Planetarium to seek an appropriate balance between spectacle and cultural credibility, while affirming itself as a full-fledged astronomy museum.

No culture should be imposed in order to marginalize another to the point that the latter needs to go great lengths to affirm itself to former.