Sentence examples for empire of self from inspiring English sources

The members of his Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company whirled all around him in restless eddies of largely nonnarrative movement, creating a perfect visual metaphor for Mr. Jones's creative empire of self.

Jay Parini, in his authorized biography, "Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal" (Doubleday), wants to give us the real Gore, but he keeps on falling for the pose.

When it comes to telling the story of the life, Parini proves content to deliver the strapping, self-assured, untouchable Vidal, the builder and overseer of a well-protected, many-colonied "empire of self" — a phrase repeated throughout the book, in a dizzying range of connections.

The two married in 1972, and Leona became the public face of their empire, the self-styled "queen" of the Helmsley chain of hotels.

In this idealistic vision, which unfortunately had little to do with the cruel realities of Japanese expansionism, Japan was to be an altogether new kind of empire, a self-negating and compassionate one that would help other nations to cooperatively form their own identities, rather than an aggressive and "imperialistic" one that would remold others into inferior replicas of itself.

After his death in 1912, his legend became untouchable: Scott was the archetypal Brit, a throwback to a golden age of empire when self-sacrifice was its own reward.

From a hexagonal, high-tech base on his own private island (the self-proclaimed Empire of North Dumpling), he hatches grandiose plans to save humanity.

He commands a global empire of media outlets from his self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania; his followers are said to have infiltrated the judiciary and the police in large numbers.

Now, regardless of whether Trump's self-branded empire of real estate and other interests impress you, he certainly doesn't control the American media.

Ludwig was among the world's richest men in the 1960s, with a self-made empire of around 200 companies involved in shipping, energy, mining, forestry, agriculture and luxury hotels.

He would later recount in his semi-autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun how his boyhood self even developed a perverse love of the war and came to embrace the life of the camp, as a kind of desperate stratagem for keeping his spirit alive.