Sentence examples for has permitted himself from inspiring English sources

One area in which he has permitted himself to slow down lately is his fiction.

Because the action is narrated by the character Laetitia Pilkington, Mr. Banville has permitted himself some liberties with history.

An influential and shadowy Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, has permitted himself to be photographed throughout Iraq, bolstering his regional prestige as a power broker.

Coe has permitted himself one or two moments of satisfaction, such as when he visited the Olympic Park with British IOC member Sir Craig Reedie so that they could share a Field of Dreams moment.

Under their political duress President Obama has permitted himself to be swayed into too many false choices between balancing the admirable and relentless pursuit of terrorists (that has provoked the ire of ultra-liberals) against a foreign policy meant first and foremost to mollify the isolationists.

(That assertion, so imprecise, is one David would never have permitted himself.

Hamilton said he would have permitted himself to cry after the race, but he could not.

A senior police official in Karachi said Mr. Gilani had permitted himself to be taken into custody.

One suspects that Armstrong would not have permitted himself such an observation, lest it interfere with some larger theory of least astonishment.

In Moffat's telling, Forster had permitted himself to imagine that his partner was incapable of emotion, but immediately corrected himself.

The phrase "gigantic silver screen" is uncharacteristically automatic: in a novel Updike would not have permitted himself to be so ordinary.