Sentence examples for inventing himself from inspiring English sources

My parents watch me from their perch outside Washington, D.C., and marvel at history's sense of irony: a son who ended up inventing himself in the country they left, who has written of the self-inventing swagger of a rising generation of Indians, in a country where "self" was once a vulgar word.

And you realize what you're watching isn't so much an artist inventing himself as inevitably discovering the true self within.

He was inventing himself, as people often do when they go abroad.

"It was as though Andy was inventing himself as he went along," Mr. Thompson said, "and by the time he left, he was one of the big appeals.

"It's a story about a person inventing himself and then helping invent a culture," Mr. Toller said in a telephone interview.

His slogan as a Socialist in the shadow of the Mitterrand years was "the freedom to invent!" — an imperative he took to include inventing himself as a different kind of leader.

"Here was this guy who had invented himself, and he was suddenly encountering something that invention was unprepared to communicate, but he was doing it," he said.

"The guy has accomplished a lot and is still doing things and re-inventing himself.

There are many fantastic pieces which will be part of the exhibition – he kept re-inventing himself and starting new themes of painting throughout.

"He was really an artist, someone who kept trying to improve on his own work, always re-inventing himself in the process".

Mr. Wagner won election to a third term in 1961 by re-inventing himself and running against the political bosses who had supported him earlier.