Sentence examples for remarks to himself from inspiring English sources

"It is a lot of blank space to account for in one lifespan," Mr. Phillips remarks to himself.

The narrator remarks to himself that his "friend" the raven will soon fly out of his life, just as "other friends have flown before" along with his previous hopes.

Rather than speaking up at, say, the bi-monthly gatherings of the Dum Dum Donut Intellectuals, a group organized by his father and a fame-hungry pseudo-intellectual named Foy Cheshire to discuss contemporary issues in the black community, he remarks to himself about the irony of Foy's self-supplied bag of gourmet cannoli -- "We were both too good to eat the crap Dum Dum Donuts served up".

He said Mr. Bulger should "keep his little remark to himself".

In the early 1990s, when Eddie Izzard would remark to himself, "Ooh, no one laughed at that joke, mate," there was still a sense that it was very daring – and refreshing – for a standup comedian to risk their authority like this.

The President, who had to halt several times during his remarks to compose himself, praised the Republican Presidential nominee for "never giving up" in his quest to prove that Obama was born in the U.S. "A weaker man would have said, 'I don't need this in my life,' but Donald Trump was always there for me," the President said.

He points out a flowering plum tree, and remarks half to himself that trees in the biblical garden need trimming.

The tone of doom was lightened by the diction of the everyday: seeing in Istanbul the emptiness of Hagia Sophia (which has passed from cathedral to mosque to "flame- / less void"), and feeling an interior resemblance between his own mind and the cathedral's "transcendental skull," he remarks dryly to himself: You'd let go  Learning and faith as well, you too had wrecked  Your precious sensibility.

Later, in remarks to reporters, Mr. Annan distanced himself from Mr. Powell by suggesting that the answer to Iraq's security needs might be an international force mandated by the United Nations.

(Parliament member Louise Mensch recently confused his remarks to mean that Morgan himself had hacked phones).

The world of these novels is one in which "happiness seems a bit ambitious," as Isabel Field remarks to her married lover, Colin Sidney, himself lacking the capacity for joy as well as the initiative to leave his wife and family.