Sentence examples for he claims himself from inspiring English sources

As a film-maker, he claims himself as belonging to the realistic way of story-telling devised by Satyajit Ray and Vittorio De Sica.

He claimed himself to be the defender of the real Church – a pure Church that didn't submit to poncey new ideas about allowing congregations to celebrate mass using their own languages, rather than Latin.

He claims for himself the Creator's right to interfere in the mystery of human life.

He claims that Soros himself said his mother was "wildly antisemitic".

Later he claims to recognize himself in the more outlandish mendacities of Newt Gingrich: "It's like looking into a mirror I do not possess the capacity to smash".

The combination of adulation and insecurity would drive anyone over the edge, he claimed, including himself.

The first administrator of the Aldeburgh festival, Steven Reiss, was sacked abruptly after 16 years – in part because, he claimed, he himself had sacked a caretaker whose teenage son Britten used to moon after.

The art world was quick to brand Umanets a vandal, and to deny him the artistic status he claimed for himself.

Now it had become a crime scene for a coward, who waited for a woman to turn her back before ripping off a part of her identity he claimed for himself.

He claims to do so himself.

They were "better than Suharto", he claims, and he taught himself English from books they provided.