Sentence examples for reducing myself from inspiring English sources

Just as I was editing and censoring my thoughts to conform with what was appropriate for the courtroom, I was also reducing myself to fit into a role I was not born to play.

I can reduce myself to tears just by thinking about my family.

If I manage to reduce myself to emptiness..

I was disheartened and disappointed that I reduced myself to placing my job's needs above his immediate physical ones".

Now I've reduced myself to some Nicholas Sparks mushy drivel, The Guardian, but I haven't started it yet so we'll see.

Also not coffee, and Coke [Coca Cola] I reduced myself, but I like Coke.

"Reduced to myself alone, I feed myself, it is true, on my own substance, but it is not exhausted," writes Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the Reveries of a Solitary Walker.

I think there was a kind of clarity to being reduced to myself in this extreme way.

I cannot think of a single instance where, in front of the top dog at any financial institution, I wasn't hearing myself reducing simple website functionality to paper flow charts while self-checking the word "colors" instead of "palette".

Some hard decisions were made over that period, including reducing team members (including myself) to part-time working and making some redundancies.

Positive coping styles were divided into two dimensions: 1. 'positive self-verbalisation' (three items, e.g. "I am reducing my distress by encouraging myself") and 2. 'active influence' (three items, e.g. "I attempt to tackle and solve the problem").