Sentence examples for beating oneself from inspiring English sources
Other liturgical gestures found in many Christian churches are crossing oneself, genuflecting, beating oneself on the chest, and kneeling during prayer or when receiving the eucharistic elements.
Others would say they are realistic about their own needs, and that there is no use beating oneself up about one's preferences: some things cannot be changed.
But Grimaud strove to restrain the aggressive inclinations of many individual policemen and their senior officers, and in a letter sent to all Parisian police on 29 May he wrote: "Beating a demonstrator on the ground is like beating oneself, and brings the entire police force into disrepute.
Spend more time correcting and showing a better way to handle issues and emotions, than beating oneself up.
In Persepolis, she imagines how it will be: "It's going to be cool to go to school with a veil, to not have to beat oneself every day for the war martyrs".
Leafy, fragrant boughs of silver birch (called vihta or vasta) are used to gently beat oneself in the Finnish sauna culture.
I am also: a suggestible little soul who follows Kylie Jenner on Instagram (one of those things that feels less like a choice – what to have for dinner, what time to go to bed – and more like a mandatory part of life. How else does one keep a handle on what the teens are into, coddling oneself into the illusion of beating mortality?).
