Sentence examples for constitutes himself from inspiring English sources

Thus, for Ortega, how an individual constitutes himself or herself becomes determined very much by the way in which he or she allows for the possession of either being.

Mr. Noyes then made a public withdrawal...and for many years he has constituted himself Casement's chief defender.

His poetic creed is contained in two letters of May 13 and 15, 1871, in which he prescribes for the poet the need to explore his own desires and sensations, break free of conventional perceptions and rationalist categories, and constitute himself as a visionary.

Isaac Nathan, who "constituted himself musical laureate to the colony" and is considered "Australia's first composer", created a musical society at St James' in the 1840s.

In other words, the very same rationes ideales that God constitutes in Himself, by considering Himself variously imitable by creatures, can be considered in scientia pratica as the possible effects of His actions ("quaedam operabilia").

He brings the requisite lived-in, richly felt quality to his performance that can make a supporting character in a Wilson play seem to constitute in himself (or herself) a fully realized drama.

Another inference drawn is that the pacifist himself constitutes a kind of internal threat to the over-all security of his state.

He was unfamiliar with the songs that were sung in chapel, for example, and found himself in conversations about what constitutes godly worship.

"In its current form, the prime minister can decide by himself what constitutes a secret".

But in making the series that constitutes "Duets" he set himself especially tight restrictions.

It boggles the imagination that a justice can decide for himself what constitutes a conflict of interest and that decision is final (front page, March 19).