Sentence examples for resist themselves from inspiring English sources

For the first time all week, the BBC commentary are initially restrained but by the end they can't resist themselves.

We cannot resist these people, and they cannot resist themselves: Nikolai goes to war "because he could not resist the wish to go galloping across a level field," and when the French start running toward him he is amazed that anyone would want to kill him: "To kill me?

In "The Resistance to Poetry" (2004), he suggested that "poems have resisted themselves more strenuously than they have been resisted by the culture receiving them".

The band's members, all similarly diffident, resist defining themselves as rock stars — or defining themselves at all.

As ever, New Yorkers could not resist applauding themselves.

Another problem could arise in the casting of short-run shows if actors resist tying themselves to a series that runs only 8 to 13 episodes a year.

The mass of people must do some clear thinking, the Premier pointed out, and they must resist letting themselves drift into a state of mind that the various crises which follow one another necessarily mean that another general European war is inevitable.

Politicos can no more resist involving themselves in successful industries than bears can resist honey.

You'd be amazed at how many people resist calling themselves Christian -- or maybe you wouldn't.

Many men who take on the role of primary caregiver resist calling themselves "stay-at-home dads," preferring to answer the "So, what do you do?" question by naming old jobs, future jobs or jobs they do on the side.

He was free to go, they told him, at which point "if he resisted they themselves threw him overboard, and drowned him".