Sentence examples for mirror of ourselves from inspiring English sources
Any of us who experience irrational fluctuations of feeling from time to time will see a heightened mirror of ourselves in her, and we start to question what defines mental illness.
But it helped me to think more clearly about how we unconsciously use nature as a mirror of ourselves, and how suffering is so often brought about not through evil, but through carelessness and ignorance.
You can read it as an investigation into the nature of freedom, of education, power, war, history, class, enslavement, the English landscape and the workings of the human heart… In our present age of terrible environmental destruction, it can be read most usefully as a book about humanity's lamentable inability to see nature as anything other than a mirror of ourselves".
That longing to find in another country a mirror of ourselves trumped cold analysis and led to years of denial that came to an end only when the mutilated bodies at the Baghdad morgue mounted each day: to 30, 40 and finally 75 to 100.
The way we see nature, as a mirror of ourselves, is what fascinates Ford.
Humans have always looked to nature as a mirror of ourselves.
Those that we are attracted by, those that we are repelled by, are both mirrors of ourselves.
Barker's "theatre of catastrophe", as he calls it, aiming to be "an irritant in consciousness", challenges audiences to fight through provocations to disgust and repulsion and find in his characters mirrors of ourselves and of our world.
Mentors don't need to be mirror reflections of ourselves.
The revelation here might be that Mr. Katz and Ada actually look similar; a cutout self-portrait of Mr. Katz painted on aluminum, "Alex" (1968), which stands before "The Red Smile," seems to support research suggesting that we seek out mates who are, in many ways, mirror images of ourselves.
We don't necessarily or only go to the movies to see mirror versions of ourselves: we also want (or think we do) better, kinder, nobler, prettier and thinner images, idealized types and aspirational figures we can take pleasure in or laugh at in all their plastic unreality.
