Sentence examples for becoming proper from inspiring English sources

This is not a book I like, nor is it one of Lessing's better books, but I decided to include it because the animating spirit behind the book is a kind of contempt: contempt for the hopeless ineptitude and immaturity of the middle-classes in being (or becoming) proper, effective revolutionaries.

Perhaps we need to address the narcissism we may potentially harvest in those rooms in the name of becoming proper Divas and Divos.

With more and more heterogeneous raw data becoming available, proper data integration and quality control have become essential for reliable protein network reconstruction, and will be especially important for reconstructing the human protein interaction network.

And I was fast becoming a proper adult, into my 30s, and I thought, 'Well, fuck.

But Mr Farage says a majority have their sights on becoming a proper party in the Thatcherite mould.

He may not like it, but Jim Broadbent, middle-aged character actor with the knobbly face, is in danger of becoming a proper star.

Is partly responsible for the Weeknd seeing the error of his ways and becoming a proper superstar rather than a just a blog-friendly whinger banging on about drugged-up sex and how much money he has.

This now seems like a sensible decision, giving him the chance to further his football education by becoming a proper part of a team, rather than just a talent in transit.

In discussing Liszt's devotion to the piano, Mr. Walker quoted an open letter the 26-year-old Liszt had written to musicians who had criticized him in advance of a world tour, arguing that Liszt should instead devote himself to becoming a proper composer of symphonic works and more.

Android is finally becoming a proper mobile OS.

"Even though the Soviet Union collapsed ages ago, Georgia still has difficulty becoming a proper independent eastern European state," he said.