Sentence examples for defining oneself from inspiring English sources

Defining oneself in a negative sense is not only sometimes convenient in politics, it is also devastatingly true.

And, after a hundred years of it, it is hard to feel Armenian in a meaningful way without defining oneself in opposition to it.

The power of the play lies in that fact that although it may be set in 1906, it probes the universal milestones of defining oneself as an adult.

And the questions that underlie the gathering are about things like whether gay men are better off among themselves or living in the wider world and whether defining oneself by one's sexual orientation is healthy and fulfilling.

That's not an awful lot, but then the site is more about defining oneself with pictures, videos and posts rather than mini autobiographies.

Western individualism -- the idea of defining oneself independent of society -- doesn't exist.

This was always bizarre in view of the common history and cultural affinity, and it is not constructive to define oneself in terms of a negative.

To cling to a "leftwing" or "rightwing" tag may primarily reflect one's sense of identity and emotional need to belong to one tribe and to define oneself against the other.

In this sense, the novel is very contemporary, I suppose, but it is also classical in its delineation of the youthful impulse to define oneself; among other things, I was thrilled to read a book in which the main character doesn't own a cell phone and no one writes emails.

As the child of deaf parents, she is proficient at signing and she introduces Billy to "the deaf community", the very idea of which is contemptuously dismissed by his father, who thinks that to define oneself by a disability is tantamount to "basing your identity on coming from Gateshead".

One's personal identity in this sense is contingent and changeable: different properties could have belonged to to the way one defines oneself as a person, and what properties these are can change over time.