Sentence examples for he has trained himself from inspiring English sources

"He has trained himself to speak backwards.

He has trained himself to think like an offensive guard who has not forgotten his past.

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.

But he has trained himself to sit still for hours, holding a professional-grade remote control called a Cowboy clicker, watching plays forward and backward, at full speed and in slow motion.

In the book, O'Brien dangles the extraordinary and unbelievable claim that that there is nothing special about his memory: he has trained himself to be world champ through the use of techniques.

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.

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.

Like most screenwriters, he had trained himself to outline his stories before he began writing them.

He had trained himself to leave his body and once while out of town, returned in spirit to his home to find his roommate had someone visiting.

A metafictional jeu d'esprit that dares to partner Sherlock Holmes with Henry James, it sets out its stall early on when, having persuaded a depressed James not to throw himself into the Seine – the pair meet by chance in Paris in 1893, during Sherlock's Great Hiatus – Holmes reveals that he has trained his powers of ratiocination on himself and discovered that he is a fictional character.