Sentence examples for offer oneself to from inspiring English sources

You cannot simply shift a load of television actors onto a movie screen and expect them to command its greater expanse; only one in a thousand will be able to summon that mysterious confluence of presence and reserve on which stardom relies — the will both to offer oneself to the camera and yet to keep back the hidden, unguessable sources of that self.

In my own defence, however, I will say only this: in the games with newspapers, one always ends up lying and at the root of the lie is the need to offer oneself to the public in the best form, with thoughts suitable to the role, with the makeup we imagine is suitable.

Thus "'whenever Bhagavan [i.e., Vishnu] is referred to, Lakshmi should also be considered as referred to,'" and when one offers oneself to either one is offering oneself to both since the deity to which one offers oneself "'is single [though] it rests with two'" (Kumar 124).

"It's wonderful to be able to offer oneself until the end for the cause of the kingdom of God," he said to cheers.

My parents didn't receive benefits when living in England, yet our poverty was no less degrading as a result; it is not more dignified to offer oneself as cheap, easily exploitable labour.

Consider an example: one might take oneself to have offered a reduction of the number one, in claiming that: what it is to be the number one is just to be the successor of zero.

"But it is a tempting offer to improve oneself for a small amount of money," Steinberg concedes.

To do otherwise is to expose oneself to emasculating ridicule.

With this risk one also exposes oneself to luck.

How does one explain oneself to the neighbors, after all?

We confine oneself to the case (i=1).