Sentence examples for our very selves from inspiring English sources

"As athletes we give our very selves to the pursuit of sporting excellence," they write.

He added that, with effort, "it is not only ideas and information that are shared but, ultimately, our very selves".

That is a burden felt almost (but not obviously quite) as keenly as if it had been our very selves.

Jerry Kaplan discusses in The Wall Street Journal the emergence of even more sophisticated brain scans that are combining with artificial intelligence to produce tools that can track thoughts, test truthfulness and someday, perhaps, download our very selves.

Here is a concerned scientist who realizes that the explosion of information that science has inititated is transforming our view of our very selves and who we think we are.

"We as a people love peace, but it must be a peace that protects our honour, that restores our rights and liberates our land, and will uproot all the settlements that strangle our existence and our very selves on this land of Palestine," he said.

Wax's remarks tap into the fear that being mentally unwell is an absolute: a tattoo on our very self.

Pamela K. Gilbert's engagement with the Victorians' reading of the skin, from their sense of it as an envelope that holds our very self to the tattoos that reveal our inner essence, is sophisticated and extraordinary.

How much of our very self, our individuality, our privacy, our subjective and autonomous freedom to live as utterly unique human beings, is up for grabs on the say so of whoever is making the rules for the group, not withstanding that the rulemakers have been validated by all of us?

For our very self is the one window we have into this life.

Eventually our very self-image reflects those choices too, and we identify most strongly with our work persona.