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.
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.
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.
As for the current presidential contenders, not enough biographers are available yet to construct a reliable personality profile, Rubenzer says.
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.
Along the way, however, he constructed an entire personality, an elaborate culture, and even a reasonably coherent language.
