Let us hope, then, that we will for a long time to come continue to feel his absence, to call to him; that is, to call to all that he has left of himself among us, to the part of him that remains, to his present absence.
These similarities reveal little in themselves — what author doesn't leave traces of himself in his characters?
In order to successfully lift the totem from its pedestal, he knows an exchange has to take place, that he'll need to leave something of himself behind.
The battle raged on into a tiebreak, but Stepanek was willing to leave more of himself out there, including skin and blood after diving for a volley.
It reminded him of his experience as a child in a large family who was left to himself most of the time because his mother was too busy taking care of younger children and cooking meals.
His official portrait still refers to Bashar al-Assad as "The Hope" of the Syrian nation, but signs are increasing that the man who presides over Syria's embattled government has little of it left for himself.
Bernstein left nothing of himself out of "Mass," and like the man who wrote it, the piece demands to be noticed.
He began work on Love Streams by illegally downloading a bunch of choral works by Josquin des Prez, a 15th- and 16th-century Franco-Flemish composer who left little of himself to history beyond graffitiing his name in the Sistine Chapel.
He's learned the hard way, literally leaving pieces of himself at ballparks from coast to coast.
It turned out that Carter's father had left enough of himself behind in these letters that she could truly know him and could experience the love she couldn't remember.
