That was certainly my experience: we obeyed the rules while remaining ourselves, and it was never about winning.
We remain ourselves for the most part, but freed to act on, most often, not the worst but the best within.
They are here to remind us, perhaps, that for all our cerebral overreaching, we remain ourselves, fur-bearing creatures of instinct.
The Chinese pursued a different kind of permanence by working in perishable materials that could simply be replaced as needed, the way our own bodies replace old cells with new ones while we remain "ourselves".
"The amount of questions we had to deal with, stuff we had to deal with throughout the season, did not make our life easier but the key was to remain ourselves and that made the difference in a way.
I'll interpret this question to mean that we'd remain "ourselves" in terms of personality, and the choice is between suddenly finding ourselves with the abilities, tools, and alter-ego of either Superman or Batman.
We remain intrinsically ourselves but a self grown older and wiser with experience.
Explains one, the team "decided that, in order to stay 100% focused on product, we will take our core theme of anonymity a bit further and remain cloaked ourselves".
It wouldn't be complicated; we didn't live together, hadn't had a child and were even able to see ourselves remaining friends, and yet, it was sad.
But in retelling, we ourselves remain stuck in the muck and mire.
