The phrase "make sense of himself" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to understand or figure out one's own thoughts, feelings, and actions. You can use it when discussing personal reflection, self-discovery, or understanding one's own motivations and behaviors. Example: After years of struggling with his identity, he finally took a trip to Europe to make sense of himself and his place in the world.
"Nobrow" is Seabrook's effort to make sense of himself as a young professional in a T-shirt; it is the autobiography of a cultural consumer.
Freshly regenerated, his Doctor ambles round Victorian London wild-eyed in a nightshirt, insulting people while struggling to make sense of himself and his surroundings, like a sort of wise-cracking King Lear.
I told him, 'It took your daddy going to prison to make sense of himself.' " In the fall of 2014, word got around the cell blocks that a crew was coming to Pendleton to make a feature film.
And so there are very few moments — and I think it's the same with Barack — there are very few moments when he stops and thinks, I could be the first African-American elected President". 2 Long before he ever had to think through the implications, racial and otherwise, of running for President, Barack Obama needed to make sense of himself — to himself.
* * * In the 1930s, as the writer Samuel Beckett tried to make sense of himself, he attended a lecture by Carl Jung in London in which Jung outlined the case of a patient, now adult in age, who had not actually been born, whose spirit, or essence, or essential self had not come into the world when the body did.
In the 1930s, as the writer Samuel Beckett tried to make sense of himself, he attended a lecture by Carl Jung in London in which Jung outlined the case of a patient, now adult in age, who had not actually been born, whose spirit, or essence, or essential self had not come into the world when the body did.
But two albums' worth of reissues in the last three months, with more to follow, reveal not only a much broader musician, but also one who finally made sense of himself.
He listened, and felt an extraordinary disconnection: that the language in which the Holocaust might be described by outsiders was one he could not understand himself, while the language with which he could make sense of it himself, his mythology as he elsewhere calls it, was entirely different.
Long before he ever had to think through the implications, racial and otherwise, of running for President, Barack Obama needed to make sense of himself to himself.
He was still processing, Murray said, still trying to make sense of it himself.
Tentatively, sporadically, he tries to commit his memories of his uncle to paper, partly in order to hand them down to his son, Billy, but also in an attempt to make sense of them himself.
