Performing a Bond song means lowering oneself to the lovably tacky standards of the series.
To fuck above and beyond any sense of disgust was not just a way of lowering oneself, it was to raise yourself above all prejudice.
On the plus side, the business of busting into bank vaults through enormous circular steel doors, substituting security videotapes and lowering oneself on steel wires past infra-red security beams is as watchable as ever.
Lucinda, when I finally forced her to start watching, correctly told me to stop bitching about the dragons: they were part of the deal, the price of voluntarily lowering oneself into the pit of the brain.
She didn't mind, and even welcomed, filth, rudeness, haste, uncomeliness, and bumbling in her partners: "To fuck above and beyond any sense of disgust was not just a way of lowering oneself, it was, in a diametrically opposite move, to raise yourself above all prejudice".
At Comme des Garçons, Rei Kawakubo spun the uncut selvage of her garments into thickly plaited ropes and bulbous cables suitable for lowering oneself from the window of a prison or an ivory tower, then festooned them like leis over outsized khaki flak jackets trimmed with roses.
In a clunky lamentation on the unfortunate necessity of lowering oneself from the ivory tower to explain one's self or one's work, or even worse, simply engage with the common folk, SA seriously exposes a couple of problems.
Altruistic behavior is defined as helping others at a cost to oneself and a lowered fitness.
How much of self-esteem comes from defining someone as lower than oneself on the ladder of human values?
In addition, chronic use may affect general risk taking by lowering motivation to protect oneself.
In an interview, Dr. McElwee said that as a social strategy, projecting oneself as an impostor can lower expectations for a performance and take pressure off a person — as long as the self-deprecation doesn't go too far.
