Sentence examples for familiar self from inspiring English sources

Lotte is fighting to remain her own familiar self.

Violence quickens Hartley's observational powers: in its presence, he becomes his most familiar self, mainlining on risk.

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE Wearing his familiar khakis and black sneakers, Joe Paterno was his familiar self on the sideline again.

That is not true of the convent: in my slightly spotty blue serge uniform, unrelieved by any good-conduct ribbon, I am my familiar self, younger.

Soon enough, Leguizamo was back to his familiar self — raspy, profane, a little macho — as he munched on a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup left over from Halloween.

Still, on Saturday afternoon Ailey's "Night Creature" looked like its sly familiar self, even with Alicia J. Graf giving the work a slightly unfamiliar twist.

Everything is familiar, self-contained, under control: what I need is in easy reach.

And after running off a bunch of wins this year, so comes a little familiar self-satisfaction.

Michel Platini's calculated cowardice in not standing for the presidency despite his power base at Uefa reeks of sadly familiar self-interest.

The top national suppliers of pine and other wood used in its familiar self-assembly furniture were Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, Germany and Russia last year.

I can't explain how or why, but it filled me with a profound, seething anger… followed, inevitably, by waves of a familiar self-disgust.