Sentence examples for not of self from inspiring English sources

In writing about the Oriental do I not succumb to what Gore Vidal in Screening History described as "the American writer's disease, the celebration if not of self, of the facts of one's own sacred story?" The Oriental was the crucible in which I first began ginning up mine.

When exploring the topics in which participants experienced 'change', we came across five different themes: frequent occurrence and acceptance in the host country, accepting of others but not of self, less social control in the host country, increased sense of individualism, and feeling more strongly and protective of the values of the home country.

We ask you to help give us the leaders who will be motivated only by the highest things, the things of good, not things of self, not anything personal, not anything selfish but a true love of the city".

This is, it seems to me, a tale of heroism, not of self-destruction".

And this to no small degree explains an immediate darkness to the band's sound, born not of self-indulgence but of experience.

Notwithstanding Welles's myriad flaws — his bombast, his temper, his disdain for the realities of money, and, most damaging, his habit of going into hiding when crisis loomed — Callow has come to see the latter part of the career as "a tale of heroism, not of self-destruction".

It is about the ultimate destiny and goal of humans, not of self-reproducing robots.

Already in his early writings in the Jena Realphilosophie of 1805/06 Hegel expands the Fichtean motif by referring to the Hobbesian figure of a fundamental struggle albeit not of self-interest but of recognition.

Militias are thus the ancestors of the modern National Guard, not of self-proclaimed "patriots" who show utter contempt for any form of authority beyond themselves.

For at least the last half century, we have lived in a culture not of self-awareness, but of self absorption — a culture in which concern for the greater good has been replaced by a "what's in it for me?" attitude.

The results will provide evidence for the addition or not of self-management training within vocational rehabilitation for chronic compensated musculoskeletal disorders.