Sentence examples for has trained himself from inspiring English sources

"George has trained himself not to luxuriate in drama," Bernhard said.

In the way Mr. Obama has trained himself for competition, he can sometimes seem as much athlete as politician.

Rather than feel discouraged, Nadal has trained himself to view this seemingly inconsequential point in the match as a tremendous opportunity to wrest control away from his opponent.

After calming down, I remembered that I am also a New-Media Man, the kind who has trained himself to drill down and look past the headlines.

While he has trained himself to do difficult things — drive along an unfamiliar road, for example — he accepts that other feats are likely to remain beyond him.

He has trained himself to see things not as they are but as they feel to him, to translate emotions into colors and to resist his scientific urges.

"The last person Clark had trained himself was one of the American Olympians in taekwondo," Stevens says.

Mr Naki was already a hero, as a man of scant education who had trained himself to carry out extremely difficult transplants on animals.

These included Grand Theft Auto, Gears of War and Call of Duty, of which the latter became mired in controversy after the Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik claimed he had trained himself by playing the game for years.

Besides driving a dogsled across the Arctic, living among a pygmy tribe in central Africa and sailing the coast of Russia, Gégé (or Tintin!) had trained himself to become a plumber so he could qualify for a place to overwinter at Concordia.

In a question-and-answer piece in the Times Book Review for January 16 , 1966 George Plimpton quoted Truman Capote claiming that he had trained himself to recall dialogue with such accuracy that he could interview people without a notebook or a tape recorder and then, hours later, write down verbatim what was said, his accuracy exceeding ninety per cent.