Sentence examples for felt defining from inspiring English sources

And, you know, driving to work every day you would read in the papers, whether it was about what was happening on Wall Street, the protests there, or the riots in London, or what was going on in the Middle East--it felt defining a contemporary sort of something to align to was very important, and very helpful.

The guy asked if I felt defined by my masculinity, and I said, with great feeling, that it's a privilege to wake up every day in this body.

We were reading a lot of L.A. writers for background and context, but what was most important to me was that the students try to define L.A. for themselves, and that meant to tell their own stories — what moved them, what angered them, what they felt defined the city for them, how the city had begun to define them.

Yet I failed to feel defined by any of these evils; I felt no bad faith.

Caine said he didn't feel defined by Alfie, which was "a long time ago in every way.

The funny, moving collection that resulted shows that despite the homogenizing effects of mass culture, Americans still feel defined by the state they call home.

E's 20s were hard but her 30s were better and she emailed me this week to say she doesn't remotely feel "defined" by her eating any more.

She said: "More than half of Kingston students are women and I hope that this decision will help them not to succumb to the media pressure to feel defined by their bodies, but to celebrate their academic achievements and countless other talents".

His records from those years feel defined by this complicated mix of desperation and nobility.

I didn't pick my name to begin with and don't really feel defined by it.

It was a message to anyone who feels defined by the disease and isolated by the LGBT community.