Sentence examples for conceived himself to from inspiring English sources

Lear's madness stems from the disintegration of his divinely controlled, harmoniously ordered kingdom, in which he hubristically conceived himself to be supreme.

Adams, still a boy, could not guess how intensely intimate this London grime was to become to him as a man, but he could still less conceive himself returning to it fifty years afterwards, noting at each turn how the great city grew smaller as it doubled in size; cheaper as it quadrupled its wealth; less imperial as its empire widened; less dignified as it tried to be civil.

To the Austrian eye, Mr. Schwarzenegger and Mr. Stronach are larger than life -- or at least larger than any Austrian would conceive himself.

The Qianlong Emperor as a "Universal Ruler" The Qianlong Emperor was the first Manchu ruler to not only feel completely at ease with both his Manchu and his Chinese identities, but also to begin to conceive of himself as a "universal ruler". Qianlong deliberately represented himself differently to each of the various constituents that formed his extensive, multiethnic empire.

Mr. Fairfax was among the last avatars of a centuries-old figure: the lone-wolf explorer, whose exploits are conceived to satisfy few but himself.

He came to conceive of himself as the bodhisattva ("buddha-to-be") Jōgyō, who was destined to suffer for proclaiming the truth in an era of darkness, an identification apparently verified by the severe persecution he suffered.

Bouyeri chose, instead, to retreat, to imagine himself overwhelmed by a great force, to conceive of himself as a player in a utopian narrative, because that was more consoling than feeling threatened, torn by his uneasy existence between two cultures.

Daugherty is right to claim that Barthelme conceived of himself as an heir of the modernist tradition — in particular, of Beckett.

With far less vacillation than most of his peers, Dean somehow assimilated those events and moved on, having conceived a way to reconcile himself to the nuts-and-bolts processes of politics and governance.

Does Ed Miliband – who likes to conceive of himself as a Thatcher of the left – dare to believe that he could be as transformative as she was?

The house is the world's first temple to "Acid Modernism," the aesthetic the California-born Aitken conceived for himself and Gemma Ponsa, his companion of the last six years.