Sentence examples for he held himself back from inspiring English sources

He used to live on the 13th floor, and he wanted to throw himself off, but he held himself back and said, 'No, I'm going to show her, this person, I'm going to work that much harder to show her who I am.' " Ms. Martinez is translating matter of factly, although Mr. Rivera is speaking with emotion.

A psychiatrist once told him, even after he was a success, that he was holding himself back because he was frightened that he would harm his father: "I was told that my problems were partly not wanting to symbolically kill my already dead father or to surpass him".

"There are lots of things that he would love to do but he's holding himself back.

He never considered himself a great teacher: indeed, there was always a sense that he was holding himself back.

I think it's because he was holding himself back, not allowing himself to let go enough to find his stroke.

Recently, he tells Oprah, he was on an airplane sitting next to a wealthy Dallas businessman who hadn't even realized he was holding himself back and living out of the past.

Now he'll be holding himself back lest he looks like a sexist pig.

When Obama responded that he had surfed while growing up in Hawaii, Rohrabacher said he had to hold himself back from joking about the president's birthplace.

Hopefully he's just holding himself back for the Masters".

He doesn't hold himself back.

"What it feels like to me is that, even though he was barely in his 20s, an entire lifetime of musical ideas came pouring out in this one piece," said David Leaf, who teaches pop songwriting at UCLA. "It was as if he had been holding himself back, waiting for his chance, and then the Richard Harris record gave him the opportunity to put it all together.