Sentence examples for grant oneself from inspiring English sources

To say "a burden" is to grant oneself weight in other people's lives; to call them "loved ones" is to fake one's ability to love.

For a good life, we aim to have institutions that meet our sense of justice in the obligations they impose and the privileges and opportunities they grant (Oneself as Another, 180).

Even more, to impose one's religious or cultural identity on others implies that one does not concede to that other the same human dignity one grants to oneself.

…" Is it possible to watch a movie without actually seeing it, let alone granting oneself the time, or the restful space in one's head, to think about what it might mean?

China has already imported other Western therapeutic models, including systematic family therapy, C.B.T., and sandplay (the practice of using a sandbox and miniature figures to express oneself), and China has been granting credentials in counselling since 2003.

Since visual surplus holds as much potential for damage as it does for enhancement of meanings, Bakhtin grants attention to the 'I' – for other, for oneself and for a mutually animated 'we' that resides in the dialogic space.

One can decide whether to grant or withhold forgiveness only for that which was done to oneself.

For Nussbaum this means a reflexive, Socratic pedagogy emphasizing the critical examination of oneself as well as what is taken for granted in the opinions of others.

"One must show oneself deserving," he said.

Is it possible to smack down oneself?

Much of this is taken for granted now, but when Dichter was whispering these sweet nothings in the ears of CEOs, they were revelatory.For Dichter, the ability to express oneself through shopping was a matter of great importance.