Sentence examples for combat with himself from inspiring English sources

As he draws out his moves to unendurable lengths, the stranger appears to enter into a feverish combat with himself: From one pause to the next our friend's behavior became ever more bizarre.

Lorenzo Pisoni as the brothers, Orlando and Oliver, is in a tighter spot several times, and his efforts to get out of it are vastly entertaining, including a heated argument between the two that ends with Mr. Pisoni in hand-to-hand combat with himself until the noble brother decks the scheming one in a pair of spectacular backward somersaults.

Add to that his observation that "Wallace started the process" of his own mythologizing, and we begin to see the complexities that energized and enervated him, the notion of an author locked in conversation, or even mortal combat, with himself.

How might a fully head-dressed native American find himself in combat with a gorilla?

Conscripted into the French army, Mr. Ben Bella distinguished himself in combat with an Algerian regiment during World War II.

Once Ash finds himself locked in combat with an army of skeletons, the film's visual ploys overpower its halfway humorous conversation.

Healso found himself often locked in combat with politicians, for in a deeply divided community there was no semblance of consensus on policing.

Mr. Obama regretted allowing himself to get drawn into sharp combat with her, which polls showed was hurting his image.

Nevertheless, over the summer, he found himself in a Shakespearean drama, locked in combat with his own brother for a prize only one of them could win.

But a mouse in combat with a tiger.

Nine days' combat with marines; much in the Waugh tradition.