Sentence examples for inscribed himself from inspiring English sources

The promoter Don King also had a boulder, which, according to Ali's corner man, Wali (Blood) Muhammad, King had inscribed himself before hauling it up to the camp.

The panther that prowls down his left arm masks a smaller "Rampage" tattoo he inscribed himself when he was 15. "I covered the first one up because the letters were crooked, and I almost misspelled my name," he said.

He inscribed himself in history, and in famous-quotation anthologies, forever, when he said, "In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism.

The art school-educated Gray literally inscribed himself upon the city, too, as a muralist for pubs, libraries and even a West End restaurant, for whose wall-painting he was paid in meals.

If so, he has failed resoundingly with The Picture of Dorian Gray, which, in the words of the critic Jerusha McCormack, "Wilde took as a script for his own life, quoting its very lines in the dock, and by so doing, inscribed himself forever in the fiction which he had already written".

He even has a Picasso book that Steinberg inscribed to himself in French, mimicking Picasso's handwriting and drawing style.

The psychological effects of this sort of self-policing were written about by Michel Foucault: "He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection".

Shostakovich himself inscribed it "in memory of the victims of fascism and war".

Jens Voigt cycled around the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen, Switzerland on a Trek Speed Concept time-trial bike that was modified for the track, with its clock-face disc wheels as nice a touch as the hardman jokes – "Jens Voigt doesn't normally ride in velodromes, because he doesn't like to lap himself" – inscribed on his frame.

I gave him a copy of a book that I had published in the meantime, about the partition of the land, and drew his attention to the fact that his copy was inscribed to the partitioner himself.

Putin envisions himself being inscribed in history as a great leader in line with earlier Russian modernizers, especially Peter the Great (and, in different ways, Stalin), but also international figures like Franklin Roosevelt (a self-comparison worth pondering).