Sentence examples for myself capable from inspiring English sources

It was anger about my disadvantages and a desire to prove myself capable that drove me to take up the challenge – luckily with my parents' full support.

I found myself capable of taking a nap just about anywhere, even when standing in a subway car or riding an escalator.

PARIS — "Although I have attended the theater since I was 12," Jean-Philippe Rameau said in looking back on his long career, "I first worked for the Opéra only at 50, and even then I did not think myself capable".

She makes an atheist reader like myself capable of identifying with the sense of a fallen world that is filled with pain and sadness but also suffused with divine grace.

Still, I don't find myself capable of referring to her as "Pym," like a cup of punch and Barbara was so unfailingly humble a woman she might have excused my colonial familiarity, or even found it funny.

"He is a terrible being who comes across another character with an indescribable capacity for survival and who he will submit to the sort of trials that I never imagined myself capable of writing".

I consider myself quite capable of getting my tomatoes home safely without sitting on them, so why must they come packaged in plastic armor?

I wish I could say I was shocked into a state of inarticulate confusion, but I found myself remarkably capable of answering questions.

NOW that I've come to think of myself as capable of both giving and receiving love, I can feel that jolt sometimes with my husband as well as my daughters.

Kant objects to Beccaria's claim by distinguishing between the source of a social contract in "pure reason in me" as opposed to the source of the crime, myself as capable of criminal acts.

"I've seen it myself: we are capable of putting in performances like that week after week.