Sentence examples for matters of itself from inspiring English sources

If you have ever cleared a house after a death you will recognise this feeling, that each handmade thing matters of itself, even when mortality casts it loose sequentially from maker and owners; the sense that responsibility for the present of an object is also a duty to its past, and an obligation to its onward transmission.

Matter of itself is immobile.

In the US, this is the task of Congress; but in matters of national security, Congress is itself heavily muzzled by secrecy.

A CPA man who has often met him says the ayatollah is adamant that religion should be separate from politics, even over matters of religion itself.

For many of us, these medications are a matter of life itself.

He is scarcely oblivious to the declining status of jazz fiction — or, for that matter, of jazz itself.

Then there is the matter of love itself, love, a word so trammelled by overuse as to be almost senseless.

And there is the matter of Switzerland itself, that paradoxical country in the middle of Europe, fiercely independent and neutral politically but the meeting point of at least three major European languages and cultures.

"It doesn't appear to be a matter of talent itself," he wrote.

He added: "I do think awareness matters in and of itself when you look at the fact that this issue is bigger than policy.

Scientists do not fully agree whether or not gene flow between transgenic crops and wild relatives matters, in and of itself (ICSU, GM Science Review Panel).