Sentence examples for divest oneself from inspiring English sources
"Superstition is something that one should divest oneself of," he said.
"The business of life," he wrote, was "to divest oneself of unnecessary possessions, and mainly of other people".
Abbey Lincoln's great jazz ballad "Throw It Away" is the kind of philosophical reflection that invites Method interpretations by singers willing to connect their personal associations with its advice to divest oneself of unnecessary personal baggage.
"I believe that convictions and austerity and divesting oneself of possessions should be the characteristics of public service, and not simply as a marketing ploy".
I can only say that divesting oneself of a large dead, staring-eyed, rapidly stiffening gannet at the edge of a small and inquisitive town is something I would not necessarily wish upon you.
The issue of women's body hair, and specifically the significance of divesting oneself of it or keeping it, has been in the news again of late, as it often is, sporadically.
It may be that merely by divesting oneself of one or some of the electronic devices (or any objects, really) whose purpose is already filled by other devices, perhaps one can achieve a level of simplicity that Jony Ive would appreciate -- even if one of those divestments is of an object of his own design.
It is the humble divesting of oneself that opens one up to the other (GW VIII, 204) and presupposes the loving willingness to be open to that which is other.
