Sentence examples similar to imposing oneself from inspiring English sources
The desire to impose oneself upon the world is a rarely expressed motive for art, yet it can be felt in Goya, as he relentlessly bared the nightmare below the world's surface, and was felt by the artist himself.
The format isn't entirely new – an episode of Modern Family did exactly the same thing a couple of months ago – but it is a canny set of formal constrictions to impose upon oneself as a film-maker, and writer Nelson Greaves and director Levan Gabriadze outdo themselves with it for a goodly portion of the movie.
Is the exile self imposed by dedicating oneself to making effigies?
Hungary's conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the EU is harming itself by imposing sanctions on Russia, describing the measures as "shooting oneself in the foot".
(As a corollary, imposing artificial constraints on the practice of isotopic labeling, such as limiting oneself to chemically and financially feasible experiments, is, obviously, correct).
The quality of motivation depends on whether the regulation of actions are imposed by others or oneself (controlled motivation) or by the true feeling of free choice and personal significance of the outcomes attained by the actions (autonomous motivation).
Such fellow-feeling should keep one from imposing serious harm on a fellow group member to procure a slight benefit for oneself, a phenomenon Nagel (p. 100) thought inexplicable by natural selection.
Reading these lines to oneself does little, but reading them after seeing the movie brings them back with the inflections and the distinctive voices of the superb actors who deliver them — including Tina Fey, who's also the screenwriter — and give them an imposing, three-dimensional authority, like mobile language-sculptures.
