Sentence examples for explain to themselves from inspiring English sources
What we are left with is a picture of people — not necessarily good people — muddlingly trying to explain to themselves the pain and unknowability of their lives.
Maybe no one can fully explain the explosion of the Harry Potter and "Ice and Fire" franchises, but fans can quite easily explain to themselves why they are fans: it's because of the books.
The first anniversary of the incident is Tuesday, and many Philadelphians are still unable to explain to themselves and their children an event that has had an imponderable effect on the city's collective psyche.
Canticle IV: "The Journey of the Magi" (1971) is a setting of T. S. Eliot's well-known poem of the same title, scored for three male singers portraying the three kings, driven to undertake their arduous journey for reasons they cannot explain to themselves.
The four speakers, who included a Naval Academy friend of Major Zembiec and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the American commander in Iraq, spoke in unvarnished language, sometimes awkwardly, as if trying to explain to themselves why a man comes to this wind-raked patch of desert to fight an enemy he cannot see and what can be learned from his death.
Their motivation for looking back is to try to explain to themselves (and to their readers) the enigmatic man they came to know: a seemingly infallible figure who closed his career with a major misstep.
New Yorkers often have trouble explaining, to themselves and others, why they submit to the extortionate demands of their hometown.
Self-explanation is an active learning technique of proven effectiveness in other domains which consists of having students explaining to themselves information on to-be-learned materials.
It was an opportunity, she explains, to express themselves without the need for verbal skills.
The results of the different diagnostic procedures performed on children were briefly explained to the children themselves.
He wished, as he said, to understand fully those about whom he wrote, to live alongside them, and to allow them to explain themselves to present-day readers.
