Sentence examples for he recalls himself from inspiring English sources
He recalls himself in 1918 - the son of a New York Central conductor wearing a Navy ensign's uniform.
And are you a mad person too, he recalls himself thinking.
He recalls himself as a virgin undergraduate seduced by Sebastian from tweedy academia (Irons, otherwise impeccable, rather overdoes the bottom-lip-nibbling coy ingenue bit in Sebastian's presence) into the Marchmain family's ambit and into Brideshead's bombastic precincts.
He recalled himself as a young law student and World War II veteran, walking across the University of Virginia campus, being stopped and asked by the president of the university if everything was going well.
From the age of six, Edward began his formal education under Richard Cox and John Cheke, concentrating, as he recalled himself, on "learning of tongues, of the scripture, of philosophy, and all liberal sciences"; He received tuition from Elizabeth's tutor, Roger Ascham, and Jean Belmain, learning French, Spanish and Italian.
Am I doing enough?" he recalls asking himself.
What he recalls of himself at this time "is that I was a liar.
"Do I really want to make a picture in which everybody knows the end?" he recalls asking himself.
He recalls telling himself, "I'm going to write a fantasy and it's going to be huge.
"Now I have flipped out," he recalls telling himself after he looked at his first painting of a row of pies.
As he dragged her to safety, he recalls asking himself, "Where do we fit in this picture?" That fitting in has never been easy, as even his name testifies.
