Sentence examples for notion of himself from inspiring English sources

The Labor leader likes the notion of himself as a deal-maker and a unifier.

Mr. Romand seems to have swallowed the notion of himself as a tragic figure, a kind of existential hero.

Some of those happily resolved conflicts resurface in different guises in his novels, he admits, but he rejects the notion of himself as a 'gay writer'.

Brand is in Philadelphia to lose the notion of himself as the likable All-Star destined to never play for a championship.

Laboring in the shadow of his brother and chief collaborator, George, Ira loved puns and word games but disparaged the notion of himself as a poet.

And the movie conveys an uneasy sense that Gromov's personal demolition of Ragin's notion of himself as a font of wisdom and enlightenment contributed to the depression that increasingly engulfs him.

Instead, like "Theater Problems," "The Traveler's Standpoint" gives insight into Dürrenmatt's notions of himself as an artist and playwright.

From Teddy Pendergrass, a 1970's love man, Mr. Levert has taken the notion of calling himself a teddy bear and tossing toy bears to his fans.

If Grillo had chosen to, he could have forced the Democratic Party to put through a number of the reforms he had been pressing for, but the notion of compromising himself by negotiating with a traditional political party was unacceptable to him.

With a boyish smile, he reminded us of how wily a salesman he can be and, by extrapolation, that no one should think for a training camp second that Tebow has surrendered the notion of marketing himself as a starting quarterback.

In contrast to the uproar about the possiblity that Blago might appoint himself to President Obama's senate seat, there was not a lot of yelling and screaming going on recently, when West Virigina Governor Joe Manchin floated the notion of appointing himself to fill the seat of the longest serving member of Congress, the late US Senator Robert Byrd.