Sentence examples for astonishing self from inspiring English sources

And the Newark Museum continues to be its own astonishing self: a world-embracing collection on a manageably human scale.

To round out his personal history of the Irish theater, in the late 1970s he toured in a one-man show called "My Astonishing Self," based on the notebooks and letters of George Bernard Shaw, in which he played Shaw as both a young and old man.

Some of Mallon's correspondents demonstrate an astonishing self-awareness.

For one thing, I sensed very strongly Blair's astonishing self-belief as the ground was being laid.

Laura Doyle is one of those astonishing, self-created demagogues whose central creed is the universal applicability of their own experience.

"Negrotarians," as the writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston called Harlem's white patrons, were a diverse crew, full of good intentions, startling blind spots and astonishing self-confidence.

Pitt made a successful maiden speech and, in March 1782, when it was clear that a new ministry would soon be formed, announced with astonishing self-confidence that he had no intention of accepting a subordinate position.

To be historically accurate the actor would have to be aged around his late 40s and be able to powerfully convey Cromwell's astonishing self-confidence and rather terrifying menace.

But in the course of an astonishing, self-justifying account that ran to 117 pages, he argued that this case had no relevance to Purkey and criticised his client's appeals lawyers.

For seven seasons, Betty periodically displayed astonishing self-absorption, and Henry and Sally weren't totally wrong about Betty's penchant for drama and her tendency toward vanity.

When extreme hiker Aron Ralston was forced to cut off his own arm to escape the Utah canyon in which he had been pinned, Hollywood made a movie about him--ever see "127 Hours?" But Ralston isn't the only one whose astonishing self-amputation story wound up on the screen.