Sentence examples for banishing himself from inspiring English sources

This book is aimed at lovers of Doyle's fiction, who are more likely to be irritated than touched by his modesty in banishing himself to a footnote (literally; his birth is referred to in small print at the bottom of the page).

He banished himself: "I became a fugitive".

Craig could hack precisely none of this and banished himself from the street.

He banished himself from the Vineyard, was clearly suffering, and he just couldn't do it".

Having banished himself during the winter for failing to relight the Boston Celtics' flame, Pitino was back to doing what he does best, lathering college kids into a frenzied state of full-court pressure.

The broadcasts were comic and lighthearted — meant to assure his readers that he was well and in good spirits — but in England they did not go over well and left such a lingering cloud over his reputation that he banished himself to America for the rest of his life.

Now he tells us that he is thrilled to be back in the arena from which he banished himself so thoughtlessly and of course the nation – or least that part of it still prepared to make the emotional investment – is anxious to believe.

Haney will no doubt cringe at the comparison but in pandering to the insatiable public appetite – not to mention, one imagines, his publisher's demands – for celebrity gossip he has banished himself to the same category as the cocktail waitress and porn stars who emerged in the aftermath of Woods's scandal desperately seeking to capitalise on their tangential involvement with the fallen star.

He nodded to the director, busy talking to someone, then strode on to the mock stage, dropped his cord coat on the floor and started speaking: Timon's speech of endless invective outside the gates of Rome, after he has banished himself.

And for nonfiction, there's Barry Werth's biography "The Scarlet Professor" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), the story of Newton Arvin, a literary critic, Smith College professor and National Book Award winner in 1951 who banished himself to a mental institution after being arrested for possession of pornography and being accused of leading a "smut gang".

oedipus should tear out his eyes and banish himself from Thebes, immediately.