Sentence examples for cheating himself from inspiring English sources

Juxtaposing a lover cheating himself out of happiness with Elena's conception of what it might be like to be from a subjugated country resonates with mysterious force.

The unsophisticated is made to feel that he is cheating himself and barring his children from a fortune by not grasping the opportunity tendered.

He would not cheat himself, and you didn't have to push him.

He wanted to be remembered as a real artist, and so cheated himself.

Bucky Nome, the desperado, who is described as being so crooked that he would cheat himself, is arrested and looked in a cell.

He doesn't cheat himself or us, that is, of ironies, regrets and second thoughts, although he delivers them tonally, not explicitly.

I know, having sat down with Chambers and spoken with him on the telephone on several occasions, that he knows he has done wrong and is contrite and, just as importantly, is now clean of the seven banned substances he once used to cheat himself, his friends and his rivals.

"He sure wasn't going to cheat himself". There also was that great motivator constantly pushing Gant.

After Indiana University honors student Julian Batts earned the title "Worst 'Wheel of Fortune' Contestant Ever" when he mispronounced the final puzzle -- and cheated himself out of a million dollars -- a "Jeopardy!" contestant has now risen from gameshow obscurity to have her bad luck broadcast across the Internet.

Also benefiting from fine acting and a great location is 1951's "The Man Who Cheated Himself," starring Jane Wyatt a long way from "Father Knows Best" and a gruff Lee J. Cobb in a tale that twists and turns all the way to San Francisco's iconic Fort Point.

My old man had cheated me — of himself, mainly — and so I cheated him right back.