Sentence examples for confronts himself from inspiring English sources

He confronts himself head on with no fancy dress and no pretentious poses or expressions.

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

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.

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

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".

"You know, punk-rock guy confronting himself.

As he explains in the documentary, he had not been ready to confront himself before now.

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.

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.

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 retrospect, Mr. Hamlen says that his bold decision to shake up his life at 34, move to New York City with no money to speak of, and begin a new career was an outgrowth of confronting himself.