Sentence examples for discovered himself in from inspiring English sources

Perhaps it's because Burckhardt was a jazz spirit: he discovered himself in the art of spontaneity.

The captain of evil discovered himself in a handgrip harder than anything he had ever encountered in any man on the face of the earth.

He had a name: Miguel Flores, he had an age, 23, and he had one of those dark stories of someone who discovered himself in New York by chance and hoped for promise and met doom.

An audience for his own past self, Scrooge discovers himself in what is said about him.

Unable to face him he turned through an adjacent door to discover himself in a broom cupboard.

One day he wakes up to discover himself in bed with twin sisters; they move into his apartment without ever disclosing their names.

When I spoke to Holland, I had the impression of a man who loved science and was politely trying to endure waking up each day, after insufficient sleep, to discover himself in the role of a politician.

Like the robot boy in Steven Spielberg's "A.I.," who found his own predicament mirrored in "Pinocchio," Stitch discovers himself in a children's story, in this case "The Ugly Duckling".

This is the road Hiram Bingham himself took when he first discovered the site (or had indigenous people escort him to the site which he then took credit for discovering himself) in 1911.

In fact, he was just discovering himself, and in the process he suffered fits of self-loathing so cruel and dark that Morse feared he would do himself harm, or turn his rage outward, perhaps onto Morse himself, or bring them both to grief by bawling out a drunken confession to a fatherly colonel in some officers' bar.

But it doesn't exert the emotional pull of the similar epiphany of a boy discovering himself through ballet in "Billy Elliot".