Sentence examples for proclaim oneself from inspiring English sources

"To proclaim oneself a nigger is to identify oneself as real, authentic, uncut, unassimilated, and unassimilable — the opposite, in short, of a Negro, someone whose rejection of nigger is seen as part of an effort to blend into the white mainstream," he writes.

It will certainly have enhanced Heath's claims on posterity, that, after cunningly wresting its ownership from the Cathedral, he invested in the kind of listed, historic property that, unlike Mrs Thatcher's executive home in Dulwich, immediately entitles the owner to proclaim oneself a custodian of the nation's heritage.

To join the protests is not necessarily to proclaim oneself "anti-cop" (though there may be some for whom this is true).

Proclaiming oneself to be colorblind, she added, "is not a helpful perspective in counseling and therapy".

In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in the preface to "The Scarlet Letter," bemoaned the peculiar difficulty of proclaiming oneself a writer in practical-minded America: "What is he?" Hawthorne imagines his disapproving Puritan ancestors asking of his career.

"I don't agree", "migration", "emigration", "re-election", "election term", "constitution amendment", "constitution rules", "proclaiming oneself an emperor" and "Winnie the Pooh" — the Xi's online nickname — were among a host of phrases to be banned on microblogging site Weibo, according to U.S.-based China Digital Times.

After all, there is nothing that proclaims one has divorced oneself from one's private life and inner voice of reason than Liz's own scrape-back, partial-facelift hairdo.

New Yorkers proclaim this frequently.

We proclaim it quite clearly.

Noligarchy!" proclaim the protesters' banners.

Aphorisms proclaim rather than persuade.