Sentence examples for confessed to himself from inspiring English sources

He began to see it more clearly, with growing excitement, though he confessed to himself that it was less a seeing than a desire gradually hardening into a certainty.

In the midst of a survey of Wiltshire, he confessed to himself: "I feel as though I am working under a divine impulse to complete this task: nobody else will do it, and when it is done no one hereabouts will value it: but I hope the next generation will be less brutish .Aubrey's "diary" is partly a lament for England.

In a long handwritten note, across the top of which Chayefsky wrote, "THE SHOW LACKS A POINT OF VIEW," he confessed to himself, "I guess what bothers me is that the picture seems to have no ultimate statement beyond the idea that a network would kill for ratings, and even that doesn't mesh with the love story".

Without any real expectation — or none he could confess to himself — Hanwell got on his bike.

He had to confess to himself that he felt high, and now tried to identify the source.

At the same time, he confesses to himself a secret admiration for the cat's coarse energy and simplicity.

Oh, and that look on his face as she closes the door: modest, entertained, surprised, but not too surprised — confessing to himself that, yes, in the best of all possible worlds (which is where Hitchcock, for a minute or more, has landed us), this is just the kind of thing that ought to happen.

He confessed to reading himself to sleep with tales he had not read since childhood.

But an audio recording surfaced this week in which a man whom police believe is Collins confessed to exposing himself to and sexually abusing three underage girls.

Anglo-American Jason, with his frank way of speaking and "a face people confess to", insinuates himself into the family, luring Nell out of herself, challenging Haz's confused sexuality, antagonising Dad and soothing Mum.

Until now, James seemed to like nothing more than making things difficult for his public — whom he's confessed to hating — and himself.