"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.
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.
There's a kind of spiritual covenant in all sports that binds spectators and players but which in golf takes on truly mystical proportions, if only because the terms of the game — an absurd struggle against nature and oneself — offer so many uncanny parallels with the terms of conscious life.
"But it is a tempting offer to improve oneself for a small amount of money," Steinberg concedes.
Nonetheless, seeing the image for oneself offered reassurance for some participants.
Wes Anderson's recent films, including "Fantastic Mr. Fox," are all about the quest for adventure, and how the lure of exhilarating danger also offers real risks, to oneself and to others.
This sound account will, however, set aside any distorted act-descriptions that one may offer others, or even oneself, as rationalizations and exculpations of one's choice and act, but that do not correspond to what really made the option attractive, as end or as means, and so was treated, in one's actual course of deliberation, as one's reason for acting as one did.
According to this model, 'exhaustion' is the feeling of not being able to offer any more of oneself at an emotional level; 'cynicism' represents a distant attitude towards work, those served by it, and other colleagues; and 'inefficacy' as the feeling of not performing tasks adequately or being incompetent at work [ 5, 6].
