Sentence examples for described himself with from inspiring English sources

George Orwell once described himself, with painful accuracy, as belonging to the "'lower-upper-middle class".

Nyman recently described himself, with commendable candour, as 'a composer known for appropriating and recycling the material of others'.

Enter Kekhman, then 39, a multi-millionaire fruit importer who described himself, with Freudian grandiloquence, as "the Emperor of the Banana".

Mr. Thackeray often described himself — with a twist of his wrist and a flick of his fingers, as if he were delivering a great one-liner — that he was not a politician but a political cartoonist.

Dr. Rhee sometimes describes himself with detached, almost clinical precision.

Musically, Mr. Johansen also likes to mix genres, describing himself with tongue in cheek as a musical "degenreate".

Mr. Parks, who also comes out of Wesleyan, describes himself, with some hesitation, as a mathematical composer.

@macenzo describes himself with a simple sentence: "in love with the lines of the city", and a look at his feed quickly confirms this.

He describes himself with understatement as "an infectious diseases guy", but his achievements led to a knighthood in his native Belgium.

Nevertheless, he describes himself with the proverb: "Dos epele falt nit vayt funm boym" ("The apple doesn't fall far from the tree").

Va Sophal, 40, is a former Khmer Rouge foot soldier and a former refugee who describes himself, with a surprisingly bold grin, as "a powerless person, the poorest farmer you can find".