Sentence examples for conception of themselves from inspiring English sources

During the Falklands crisis, Argentina seemed prone to unrealism and grandiosity in their conception of themselves.

Some protesters have wished aloud for reporting more in line with their own conception of themselves.

Phish followers, the archetypal crowd for a show like this, are talkative and organized, with an exalted conception of themselves.

Östlund shows how this attitude makes the trauma worse: it is a poison that begins to destroy their whole conception of themselves.

You do see some bands who are at the same mid-level as us and who have this conception of themselves as being super-important, which is ridiculous".

The effect of this backward construction was to wrest her parents not only from death, but from their own straitened conception of themselves.

These patients, caught up in their conceptions of themselves as "empowered advocates," can come into conflict with doctors and caseworkers.

In Defense of a Real Education," which argues that education should transform students by challenging and expanding their conceptions of themselves.

The Plumb siblings are experiencing a crisis of identity more than circumstance: they've built their conceptions of themselves on a future involving a windfall, and without that windfall they don't know who they are.

In addition to gifting tiny fringe groups a signal boost and vindicating their over-inflated conceptions of themselves, this tactic also elevates a new Great Enemy in the national consciousness scattered groups of armed separatists in the 90s, deplorables today.

In ongoing research with my colleagues Michael Zimmer and Nicholas Proferes, we've shown how Facebook's commercial interests have also shifted Zuckerberg's conception of users themselves.