Sentence examples for asks of himself from inspiring English sources

Yet he feels disappointed, and asks of himself, and by extension all traders, "What was wrong with me?

Over and over, Pessoa asks of himself and of the living mirrors which he has created, 'Who am I?', 'What makes me write?', 'To whom shall I turn?' The metaphysical sharpness, the wealth of self-scrutiny are, in modern literature, matched only by Valery or Musil or, in a register often uncannily similar, by Wittgenstein.

At one point in the original story Dominic asks — of himself and his double — "Will I ever succeed in demonstrating logically the reality of the exterior world?" His double assures him that the problem isn't the reality of the exterior world, "but the objective reality of the 'double' or the guardian angel".

Ferrell donned a bald wig and beard, sat with a pile of Lipton's preferred blue notecards and went through a parody of the questions he might have asked: "What's your favourite curse word?" he asked of himself.

"It creates some strain, as you can imagine, and some questions that Charming has to ask of himself, and questions that he has to ask of her, but it's true love," he pointed out.

It's a question Miller asked of himself and screenwriters Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian as they decided how best to bring to life drama that had elements of sport, business and personal reckoning running throughout.

Valentine asks his players to improve each day and asks that of himself, too.

Her Creature comes back to haunt her, literally, as a spooky voice that describes her, aptly, as "Frankenstein's Frankenstein" and, borrowing the Miltonic accents that her learned self-taught creature himself borrowed, asks of her, "Frankenstein, why did you make me?" It's a play full of interesting flashes in which Mary seems to regret a free-loving misspent youth rather as a Sixties hippy might.

No matter what she asks of me".

Secretariat was a very intelligent horse, and he understood the training program and realized that he was being asked to do more and more, and he chose to ask more of himself.

Thus Mr. Solondz addresses the very discomfort we feel watching films like his own, since one question posed by an angry student in Vi's creative writing class -- "why do people have to be so mean-spirited?" -- is often asked of Mr. Solondz himself.