Sentence examples for he burns himself from inspiring English sources

"They are — if you'll excuse the platitude — like a child who doesn't believe that fire hurts, until he burns himself.

He is going blind, cannot cry and is indifferent to pain (he cannot feel it if he burns himself, which he often does).

Mourinho, around whom a sense has developed that he burns himself and his players out after three years or so, will now discover for himself if rebuilding Manchester United after Ferguson is Mission Possible or not.

Overcome by repentance, he burns himself on the funeral pyre of the woman.

And he burned himself into the national consciousness as a tribune of the left.

He burnt himself out in the two-fold incandescence of his dazzling career and visionary intuitions".

As well as putting on the weight, he burned himself on his arms with cigarette butts to get into character.

When Mr. Turner moved the sheet to wash his hands, he burned himself, then shook his hands vigorously to relieve the pain.

In the cause of his people, he burned himself out to a fine ash — dying in 1915 at 59, from exhaustion, high blood pressure and indifference to his health.

"I think he burned himself".

"The answer lies in why he burned himself to death and why that matters".