Sentence examples similar to rid oneself of the devil from inspiring English sources

It is a traditional technique to rid oneself of the whiteness of the canvas.

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, books III and IV take up the question of whether it is possible and desirable to rid oneself of the emotions.

No wealth is purely the result of a quest to rid oneself of the fears and doubts that are holding you back.

No wealth is purely the result of a quest to rid oneself of the fears and doubts that are holding you back, the ultimate expression of a completed self.

For Hodgkin, acquisition, ownership and finally ridding oneself of the artwork seem just as much part of the drama of collecting as admiration of the thing itself; interviewed in the catalogue, he describes "the awful autonomy of the collection.

So begins the quest for finding the answer and ridding oneself of the irksome 'trouble' that such questions induce.

LBL believes that if one cannot rid oneself of a demon, the next best thing is to share the demon with others.

Looking back we can see how absurd such a diagnosis is — as if the desire to rid oneself of an unjust social system is the problem, rather than the system itself.

The idea that one must rid oneself of presuppositions, prejudices, and predilections in order to do justice to the subject matter he characterizes as 'monastic rules' i.e. an excessive asceticism and abstinence.

The thrust of the argument just described is merely that to rid oneself of this kind of prescriptivism, an idiolectal view is required, presumably one from which any normativity has been filtered out.

The practice of making resolutions to rid oneself of bad habits and to adopt better ones also dates to ancient times.