Sentence examples for construct a personality from inspiring English sources

She presented herself in many contradictory ways, and used her art not just to reveal her personality, but to construct a personality.

She attempts to construct a personality for herself, but her attempts to get to know the truth about herself and others lead to disaster and she comes to believe that self-knowledge is an impossibility: "We never see ourselves, at all; we have no clear idea of ourselves; our mirror reflections reflect only what we wish to see, or can bear to see, or punish ourselves by seeing".

The L2 may also be used to construct a personality which is significantly different to that of the L1, using the L2 to create a unique identity that can be used as a type of defensive system (Gardner, 1985).

If you construct a personality out of material designed to be seen from the outside and not felt from within, it's going to crack.

Amin set about constructing a personality cult centered on Taraki.

Boarding children invariably construct a survival personality that endures long after school and operates strategically.

Jonathan Raban on the need to construct "a strategic personality" to find a voice for each book: for an early one about travel in the Arab states he borrowed Lewis Carroll's Alice -- astonished, prim and judgmental.

As for the current presidential contenders, not enough biographers are available yet to construct a reliable personality profile, Rubenzer says.

The combination of these questions allows us to construct a measure of personality that includes effort and hard-working attitude and at the same time an indication of the ability to pursue long term objectives and planning for the future which are likely to be important contributions to "grittiness".

Well, this movie, so ­accomplished visually, is still a good frame for Firth's performance: a man who has had to construct or reconstruct a personality to bear the weight of loss, and whom ­society will not permit to grieve.

Each actor has taken the simple building blocks Ms. Baker has provided — those switched monologues, the silly games, and the occasional intimate though often awkward colloquy — and constructed a whole personality whose complexity and humanity emerges in quick but clear glimpses.