Sentence examples for afford ourselves from inspiring English sources

How much space do we afford ourselves for private thought?

Sometimes we can afford ourselves too much freedom.

But if we afford ourselves the chance to divorce a brilliant performance from all of its trimmings, we are left with the lingering power of that blank stare.

He added that the team could "afford ourselves one night of celebration…but with the drivers' still open and Brazil a week away we can't afford to get too obliterated tonight".

But while we might be aware of the tricks we pull to afford ourselves that extra bit of space, we're not necessarily aware of those being played on us by transport operators – the "nudge".

Why not afford ourselves the advantage of integrating beauty into the innovation paradigm to begin with?

I think we afforded ourselves this record by Plans doing as well as it did".

I'm paraphrasing because he actually said a lot more about our values and the importance of affording ourselves time and priority in the greater scheme of our responsibilities and commitments.

George Bernard Shaw, for one, declared, "We cannot afford to give ourselves moral airs when our most enterprising neighbor" — the Soviet Union — "humanely and judiciously liquidates a handful of exploiters and speculators to make the world safe for honest man".

We can't afford to give ourselves too much to do.

It is probably not a good idea for the rest of us to look down our noses at people who cannot resist such temptations until we can afford them ourselves.