Sentence examples for control over himself from inspiring English sources

"Perhaps he had no control over himself".

"In general, he exercised total control over himself".

Kaspar spurred by mysterious figures, called the Prompters, eventually acquires control over himself and mind.

Workers' economic fate became less about labor's collective control over capital, and more about the individual's control over himself.

"Roger came out looking like someone who doesn't have much control over himself, and he needs to work on that," said Noelle Barbera, 25, an opera singer.

She knows everything that Hillary Clinton is doing, and she's married to a guy who has no control over himself". Hillary Clinton is the defender of the corrupt and rigged status quo.

Charles realized he believed that if he judged himself enough, he could have control over getting himself to do things "right," just as his parents had judged him to control him.

And then there is the remarkable sentence: "He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things". He feels himself exercising control, but he is not, and his absorption is beyond, in excess of, mere happiness.

Eatingis overlaid with social and domestic meanings, and Conrad's refusal of food and wine is linked to the charismatic power he wields over his followers and his lover, and to the control he exercises over himself.

Hitler kept tight control over foreign affairs, formulating himself both the strategy and the tactics calculated to achieve his goals.

"I can see how certain things or situations might happen to him that he really ain't got no control over after he put himself in that situation," Smith said.