Sentence examples for permit herself from inspiring English sources

Only when it starts spraying webs into her face does she permit herself a scream.

Maybe wistfulness is simply not an emotion Athill would ever permit herself to feel or acknowledge.

But she does permit herself a rest of a week, or even two, after an event like Spartathlon.

She could not permit herself any nostalgia as she warmed up below signs honoring John Riggins and Joe Cronin.

Elizabeth resisted conceptualizing, not only in her dissertation (1945) but also for a quarter of a century afterwards, when the most she would permit herself was analogy.

Did she not have to set aside cautions, sorrows, hopes, fears, loyalties, to permit herself the role of the plump and ready siren in the steam-room?

And Catherine Deneuve permits herself a faint smile.

Thankfully, Dench permits herself to be occasionally waspish.

In a rare moment of unguarded pride, she permits herself a grin.

It would all have been so much better if she'd permitted herself to misbehave more.

In recent years, she has permitted herself to buy a house in south-east London.