Sentence examples for our usual selves from inspiring English sources

"We didn't look our usual selves.

The sex started and ended exclusively in missionary position, like there was some kind of vanilla magnetic force holding us back from being our usual selves, like it was literally illegal to be kinky, because, you know, you're shagging to the Titanic song.

Can we actually find a way out of our usual self-absorption to find true connections with others?

Just act like you usually do and be your usual self.

The same old predictability, the grocer putting out his wares again, the children off to school, your usual self.

We were all there, we were always there, our usual shrouded selves.

And, because we don't have the adult vocabulary to be our usual cynical selves, we are as open and earnest as children.

In short, there are numerous reasons why we might not be our usual happy selves when we get older.

We weren't our usual creative self".

When people are bereaved, distraught, estranged from their usual selves, should they be treated as if they are unwell?

Our natural predilection is to pull out of the drawer our usual weapon of self-defence - the weapon of anti-semitism - but this is probably the wrong place to do so".