Sentence examples for bind oneself from inspiring English sources

A radiant, hard-earned theme of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is that a sustaining force is alive in the world for each of us, and it's possible to bind oneself to it — to find one's "song," as Wilson puts it — instead of staying chained to suffering.

Now in the hands of these theorists and in much ordinary discourse the idea of "consent" implies a normative power to bind oneself.

Hume (1987/1777, 470 1) raised the decisive objection to any normative moral or political theory based on a historical contract: the consent of one's ancestors do not bind oneself.

Butler sees this bind of "undoing oneself" in order to "do oneself" as characteristic of the general way in which autonomy is both culturally denied and bestowed (100 1).

We can also see the need that edges into fear: the need to satisfy an urge – in this case characterised as maternal – to nurture and ameliorate, but also to possess, to bind another to oneself; the fear of transgressing another's boundaries, heightened in this instance by Ginger's dread of participating in the narrative of the white saviour.

Spouses, for example, often take themselves to be obligated by what their spouses intend with respect to their behavior; indeed, it would be unseemly to hold oneself to be bound by one's spouse's will only if the spouse has actually made a demand on one.

Though one is bound to make a spectacle of oneself, this technique seems to help the beginner shed some of the self-consciousness connected with speaking a foreign language.

In a wide range of ordinary cases, however, it is evident that others, either singly or as a group, are bound to be more reliable than oneself and to report accurately.

This approach is bound to make audiences uneasy, but one should think of oneself not as being held hostage to Maxwell's style but as being expanded by its difference.

Any vocation that involves rejection and challenging oneself to do something so stupendously hard as writing a great poem is bound to engender some feelings of hopelessness and failure from time to time.

"One must show oneself deserving," he said.