Sentence examples for cope with rejection from inspiring English sources

Summaries of new research on how we express our emotions and how to cope with rejection.

The stubborn suitor, unable to cope with rejection, had pestered and threatened her many times before that day, but she had no idea what he was about to do.

The showbiz veteran, who has been caught up in a war of words with Cowell, said he was a fan of the show but was worried about children being put on stage when they could not cope with rejection.

Brettler ultimately found her niche as a member of the Crimson Key Society and a tutor for the public-speaking course "Expos 40". Her work as a peer speaking tutor led to another defining moment: giving the Ivy Oration at Class Day last spring, a speech she infused with both humor and wisdom about learning to cope with rejection.

(Lucy Gannon's Beyond Reason told the story of a man who used his superiority of age and rank to entrap, bed and abandon a younger women, whose failure to cope with rejection leads her into an act of murderous desperation against her lover's wife. This is of course the plot of Fatal Attraction).

Realize when you may be carrying cultural baggage of feeling a need to please or of being compliant; you are not responsible for his maturity or his ability to cope with rejection.

I have always coped with rejection really badly – I take it personally.

What's your advice for coping with rejection and breakups?

"When I do seminars on creativity," he wrote in a 2008 issue of Scientific American Mind, "I teach stress-management techniques to help people cope with the rejection that goes hand in hand with creativity.

It often helps to have your friends help you cope with the rejection.

Unless trainees develop a thick skin to cope with repeated rejections, these pressures often lead scientists to feel a lack of control, low self-esteem--even a sense of despair.