Sentence examples for he compromised himself from inspiring English sources

Ross describes Richard Strauss's equivocations with the Nazi regime and Hitler (who shamelessly flattered the composer only so far as he compromised himself artistically as well as morally) in a highly equivocal way: he wants to save Strauss, the man, from the fascist taint, just as he wants to save Wagner's sublime coloratura from the livid streak of antisemitism that tainted its creator.

Perhaps he fatally compromised himself when he became a Bolshevik in 1917, subordinating himself to Lenin's leadership and accepting the methods of dictatorship that he had previously condemned.

He has compromised himself to win the support of the most conservative base of the Republican Party.

This, too, is revealing, first because Hunt does not see that with the help of his special adviser he has compromised himself so far that his insufficiently minuted word is worth very little, and second, and more fundamentally, because he can't see that he simply failed to do the right thing.

"He has compromised himself for president as of now".

But he concedes perhaps he did compromise himself at the BBC.

"Instead, he turned his head and compromised himself".

In it, she argues that Mr. McGinniss morally compromised himself by pretending he thought Dr. MacDonald was innocent long after he believed him to be guilty.

Could it be that the more Spitzer compromised himself in private, the less he was willing to do so in public?

Compare the rawness of the four episodes of a television show that Pryor co-wrote and starred in for NBC in 1977 with any contemporary HBO show by Tracey Ullman (who needs blackface to play a black woman): the first Pryor special opens with a closeup of his face as he announces that he has not had to compromise himself to appear on a network-sponsored show.

"He's a strange man, and he compromised his values to save himself," she said.