Sentence examples for be beside oneself from inspiring English sources

It's the bolt: to be beside oneself.

In his 1960s masterpiece A Fortunate Man, in which he followed the daily work of a GP, novelist and essayist John Berger asked how it is possible for a clinician to face up to the anguish at the heart of human life: "I speak of the anguish of dying, of loss, of fear, of loneliness, of being desperately beside oneself, of the sense of futility".

That one did the same thing oneself for 20 years or so is beside the point.

"We are beside ourselves".

Bryony was beside him".

Environmentalists are beside themselves.

Fans are beside themselves.

I was beside Jornet.

I was beside myself.

Gerry was beside him.

"I'm beside myself.