Sentence examples for feel oneself from inspiring English sources

No contradiction was involved... To feel oneself held and cherished and accompanied, and yet to be alone.

One of the excitements of walking through Harvard Yard is to feel oneself at the quivering epicenter of intellectual, or academic, life.

To watch it is to feel oneself become lost in the thicket of inverted commas, so dense are the layers of irony and self-reference.

To be poor in the midst of affluence is to feel oneself both an outsider and, oddly, privileged: as a scholarship girl, I was a spy in the house of mirth.

She notes in one essay that "to be white in the streets of Accra is to feel oneself curiously anonymous and almost invisible", liberated from both her moral burden and the judgmental gaze of her compatriots back home.

It is compelling to turn its pages and feel oneself beginning to bristle with indignation — and curiosity — at sex gossip that is now almost a quarter of a millennium old.

She replies that both Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway "annoy me in the same way — one feels oneself tricked into feeling sympathy for entirely undeserving and rather tiresome people".

Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.

Feeling oneself "at the end of something," this slyly ambitious novel suggests, may well be the existential condition of being Italian-American.

"There is no better way of becoming aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself that which a master has experienced.

Listening to a recording, one feels oneself to be receiving an object with an almost tangible existence: a length of recorded time.