Sentence examples for feel illegitimate from inspiring English sources

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Some people feel huge illegitimacy around their degrees or other credentials or, perhaps more accurately, they feel illegitimate to start with and use credentials as a confirmation of that feeling -- feelings of illegitimacy and fraudulence are rampant among perfectionists -- but a degree by itself is meaningless.

Robinson said after he had suffered more solicitation than he could bear "That woman is so damned motherly she makes me feel illegitimate".

When asked in a social setting "what do you do?" we generally think of work: "I am a nurse" or "I am a lawyer" and oftentimes feel illegitimate when saying, "I am a mother," or worse, feel guilty for not saying it.

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Leaders shy away from talking about using feelings to dictate decisions because "it feels illegitimate in our data-driven world," says Bob Anderson.

In The Night Listener, his doppelgänger narrator Gabriel confesses that he feels "illegitimate as a writer, as if I'd broken into the Temple of Literature through some unlocked basement window".

These animals can feel like illegitimate parts of the landscape to people who, for generations, have lived without any of them around — for whom their absence seems, in a word, natural.

"I never felt as illegitimate as the day I had to buy a cash counter," she said, adding that she spends three hours or so a day just managing the cash from her business's multiple locations.

CPTED concerns managing behavior of individuals by making legitimate users feel welcome and illegitimate users feel unwelcome so they will go elsewhere.

Your point is to make us feel inferior and illegitimate.

Or "How do you feel about John McCain's illegitimate black children?" But it was a push poll nonetheless, even if it also had elements of information gathering and message testing.

Those who feel that such arrangements are illegitimate or that there should be what is now often called a "democratic override" should indeed be able to exit from them – that is the whole point.

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