Sentence examples for ourselves capable from inspiring English sources

Our imaginations are drawn to these stories; they have the allure of soft porn, at least for those of us who congratulate ourselves on not jumping for the bait, those of us who believe ourselves capable of the statement, "It isn't worth it".

We believe ourselves capable of making our own choices and keeping ourselves safe.

When he updates a classic work, he helps us to imagine ourselves capable of the spiritual growth that Handel proffers his Caesar and Mozart his Count.

Either we prove ourselves capable of reinventing the sense and direction of politics or public discontent will again take to the streets, railing against who knows whom and in favor of what.

We need to see ourselves as agents of change, to see ourselves as capable of engaging and empowering fellow travelers overseas, as opposed to shrinking our presence and abandoning the powerful agents of change in the Arab world precisely when they need our friendship the most.

The corollary is believing that we ourselves are capable of nothing but good, and so failing to see where we also go wrong.

"And because it is so very human," he adds, "it is rich in the grandeur and pettiness, triumphs and tragedies of which we as a species have proved ourselves so capable".

If our moral beliefs are dictated by our culture or way of life, he argued, then it is senseless to think of ourselves as capable of discerning objective moral truths; what room is left for such facts to make an impact on our consciousness?

Newton's system strongly encourages the Enlightenment conception of nature as an orderly domain governed by strict mathematical-dynamical laws and the conception of ourselves as capable of knowing those laws and thus plumbing the secrets of nature through the exercise of our unaided faculties.

As far as I was concerned — a traffic engineer with Methodist leanings — I didn't think that the Almighty should be bothered with problems which we, ourselves, were capable of solving". As Yamada tells it, a Tokyo city official saw a TV documentary and marveled at the simplicity of the solution to handle pedestrian traffic in bustling Tokyo.

Even those of us who consider ourselves confident and capable doubt ourselves at times.