Sentence examples for ideal of self from inspiring English sources
This individualistic economy created an individualist ideal of self.
In comedy, the failure is often mirrored in a character's efforts to live up to an ideal of self that may be perfectly worthy but the wrong ideal for that particular character.
In 1950, in "The Liberal Imagination," Lionel Trilling predicted that Gatsby's story would lose its magnetism: Gatsby, Trilling wrote, represented the fantasy of "personal ambition and heroism, of life committed to, or thrown away for, some ideal of self," while modern society urges young people to find "distinction through cooperation, subordination, and an expressed piety of social usefulness".
But Simmons's work also suggests how the "ideal of self-invention" can be self-subverted.
The institutional dimension is the ideal of self-regulation by the bar.
Bailey's ideal of self-sustaining agriculture also continues to guide us today.
And yet, facts do matter; the ideal of self-knowledge remains powerful and attractive.
Laughter gives way to wonder as a cosmic coda makes audible Aristotle's ideal of self-sufficient contemplation.
At book's end, the Christian ideal of self-abnegation is fused with the inner-life urgencies of sexuality.
When Gasore spoke of the bike, he meant something almost mystical: the embodiment of an ideal of self-propulsion.
