Sentence examples for kingdom of self from inspiring English sources

When Stanley roars to his wife and to his intruding, neurasthenic sister-in-law, "I am the king around here," that kingdom of self is, in a way, what all three are trying to claim.

This great joke admits Allen's loneliness in the kingdom of self, a loneliness that can be placated only by attainment — by the power to somehow redeem life and to see in the eyes of others the glow of the ideal.

A blowhard of pluck and positivity ("Be liked and you will never want" is one of his mantras), Willy has always wanted to seize victory from the world and to claim the kingdom of self, to be a somebody which is both the promise and the imperative of American individualism.

A blowhard of pluck and positivity ("Be liked and you will never want" is one of his mantras), Willy has always wanted to seize victory from the world and to claim the kingdom of self, to be a somebody — which is both the promise and the imperative of American individualism.

But in New York, that kingdom of self-absorbed passive aggression, I've been forced to relearn the art of a well-placed shoulder, elbow or heel delivered to a stranger's body -- usually mine, usually wordlessly and never eye to eye.

Rather like a meteorologist, he reports on its path as it sweeps across the kingdom of his disoriented self: "We get those dark thoughts... you don't think you're thinkin' 'em, so we can't even nail that down, how we going to get beyond it?

In the 17th century especially, as European rivals and Caribbean-based buccaneers raided Spanish commerce and shore settlements, the Kingdom of Guatemala withdrew into a self-sufficient, feudal-like existence.

The world's youngest micronation, the self-proclaimed Kingdom of Enclava, has announced it will settle on a new spot along the Croatian-Serbian border after learning that its initial chosen location was on Slovenian territory.

The central discovery was of the individual spiritual Self -- the Kingdom of Heaven was to come on earth by a breakthrough in individual consciousness.

Edwards endorses the signs not as criteria by which to discern how well one's neighbor measures up in the kingdom of God, but as criteria to be used in self-examination and self-discipline.

In 1986 it became a separate self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.