By contrast, Hoffman relinquished himself to his characters; thus the designation of character actor.
Hirst's pal started to snipe, more or less saying Freud should depose himself and relinquish all power.
Indeed, it was prophesied that the Grand Turk himself would relinquish his crown to Sevi.Such inversions of the existing order of things were a Sevi speciality.
When he finally gave in and brought out discs, he could not bring himself to relinquish cylinders, so resources had to be spread across two incompatible formats.
"Content to Lie Down With Family Ghosts" is one of a series based on Mr. Kunitz's poem "The Long Boat," about someone suddenly adrift at sea who finds himself relinquishing "conscience, ambition, and all that caring," letting himself go "as if he didn't know/he loved the earth so much/he wanted to stay for ever".
His fluency, and the naturalness of the stories he told, went some way towards masking the total weirdness of having him return to the White House as "first gent" after relinquishing the presidency himself 15 years ago.
It's not just that he took his boots off and leaped from the palisade and lifted his hands and flew out over the river and then back and that he felt himself relinquished of his condition and totally free for a few seconds, with the water below him.
Out of some stubborn respect for blood ties, Skip, who has suffered emotional abandonment himself, is inclined to relinquish Faith -- not, as he sees it, to give her up but to give her back.
When his publisher, Schott's, offered him a large advance on royalties on condition that he relinquish his conducting posts and devote himself to composition, he leapt at the chance.
"He is willing to relinquish a second term and to devote himself to his general political and party duties," the statement said.
