He wore multifarious hats: pamphleteer, professor and poet, but insisted on defining himself with a single word: agitator.
In order to deflect the frequent charge that he is a racist, he defines himself with the very term that Camus rejects: identitarian.
His campaign announced that he raised $24 million in the last quarter of 2011, and that it had $19 million in available cash to help define himself positively with voters and to push back against attacks.
It points to the reality that as much as he had in his life, and as much as he believed in God, he didn't know how to create a personal connection with his spiritual guidance to define himself and fill himself with love.
Throughout the film, the Joker states his desire to upset social order through crime, and comes to define himself by his conflict with Batman.
He must define himself in full public view with a fast-track transition and with efforts to soothe the wounds of an election that tested both the nation's patience and its laws.
Democrats in the State Legislature, who are pushing a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, were hoping to force Mr. Christie to take a position, believing that if he vetoed such a measure, as he has threatened in the past, he would define himself as out of step with a public that increasingly favors it.
Above all, they're both trying to appeal to the same spectral base of disgruntled white men, capitalising on any anxiety over metropolitan types with their fancy new gender arrangements – see Smith defining himself as "normal" with "a wife and three children" while still running against Angela Eagle, who is gay.
To begin with, Charles Koch has never defined himself as a Republican Party stalwart.
