Sentence examples for reconciling oneself from inspiring English sources
The poem, which is about (among other things) reconciling oneself to a mixed existence, ends by relaxing into an image of confinement: "They say / the legs go here.
And so "Collateral Damage" ends up making a smashing and timely case for reconciling oneself to the deaths of so-called "innocent" civilians.
How one experiences it and reconciles oneself to it depends on the individual.
It is impossible to reconcile oneself with the notion that people who call themselves patriots so tenaciously resist any change that affects their feeding trough or their ability to get away with anything.
In contrast, from the very first moment Breivik was utterly alone, and his smallness and wretchedness, which were, in a way, grotesquely inflated by his actions, make it all the more difficult to reconcile oneself to the crime, which the media have termed "the worst attack on Norwegian soil since the Second World War".
The political elements of the story (which finds the judicial system in the pocket of a dissolute, corrupt businessman) connect with another, more pervasive, more universal, and, ultimately, more radical vision of generational battles that arise from existential despair: the struggle to reconcile oneself to a broken world that draws on the past to harness the virtuous to perpetuate the evil.
Stanlick defines reconciling with harm as: "to recognize oneself as harmed, and in the most serious cases, to recognize harm as part of who one is; but it is also to aspire to a vision of oneself as a person who is much more than simply harmed".
The problem remains of reconciling the imperatives of prudence and (social) justice in practice, of reconciling the good for oneself with the good for others in our self-directed, principled, thinking and doing.
And can we reconcile the urge to share oneself with the need to stay separate that is required to accomplish it?
Participants' awareness of these sanitation issues and the associated health threats to their communities are difficult to reconcile with the prevalent attitude that personal hygiene is enough to protect oneself from disease.
