Sentence examples for identifying oneself from inspiring English sources

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy.

I'm basically a grandma these days.' " Identifying oneself as a "grandma" is a growing phenomenon, particularly among twentysomethings who refuse to leave their apartments over the weekend.

(One should read, he said, "not for the infantile purpose of identifying oneself with the characters, and not for the adolescent purpose of learning to live" but rather to "feel a shiver of artistic satisfaction").

But secondly — and this is much more important — I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

But secondly — and this is much more important — I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognizing no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

What this means is that identifying oneself with this secret is a key constituent of the very identity of a Christian priest: if a priest seriously (not just rhetorically) denounces these scandals, he thereby excludes himself from the ecclesiastic community, he is no longer "one of us".

It's the desire to try to identify oneself as part of a privileged in-group.

To be a cook, he declares, is "always to identify oneself with the degraded and the debauched".

It takes quite a nerve to identify oneself with the prophet Muhammad and compare a political reform to Allah's path.

I do not minimize the aid given the State of California by virtue of the requirement to stop and identify oneself.

Groups often achieve what individuals can't, and the readiness to identify oneself with a group, to take part in a group effort, and to subordinate one's own immediate interests or desires to it is constitutive of humanity.