Sentence examples for confronted himself from inspiring English sources

Confined to the Gaylord Farm Sanitarium in Wallingford, Conn., for six months (1912 13), he confronted himself soberly and nakedly for the first time and seized the chance for what he later called his "rebirth".

In some such novels, the character emerges at the end having confronted himself and learned in the process, but Abdul's evolving series of names and mistaken identities ultimately render him all but nameless.

"You know, punk-rock guy confronting himself.

The artist confronts himself in the mirror, adopts a pose and depicts it.

But there's more to it than xenophobia, and Van Lieshout confronts himself, and everyone else, with the simplicity of their prejudices.

Now, in Spiegel (Mirror), the Belgian choreographer takes a retrospective look at his work, confronting himself with the violence, wreckage and sheer volume of physical energy he has unleashed on stage.

It's only when the king confronts himself and admits "I am ashamed" that the frozen statue of his queen, Hermione, comes to life and he, too, is regenerated.

Day'll try to goad Lenz into a beef that'll be public enough so he doesn't get hurt but does get bounced out, and then he can leave treatment and go back to Chianti and ludes and make out like the relapse is Ennet House's and never have to confront himself or his Disease.

And it is indeed difficult to warm to, let alone empathise with, a character who endlessly considers his own state of mind, but "parr[ies] and ducks, like an outclassed boxer" when he is forced to confront himself emotionally.And yet there are scenes of intense warmth and wit, and these stand out on the slightly bleak horizon of the novel like shafts of sunlight.

From this he concludes that the modern search for "true reality" behind mere appearances, which has brought about the world we live in and resulted in the Atomic Revolution, has led into a situation in the sciences themselves in which man has lost the very objectivity of the natural world, so that man in his hunt for "objective reality" suddenly discovers that he always "confronts himself alone".

Despite years of meditation and spiritual training, he was confronting himself like never before.