Sentence examples for self arguing from inspiring English sources

Mulaney is deft with voices, and does a nice version of his younger self, arguing meekly with his father about his culpability in watching a classmate get bullied at school, or submitting to an odd sex talk centered on the composer Leonard Bernstein.

Heyes addresses the exclusionary processes of identity politics by returning to Foucault's incomplete thoughts on care of the self, arguing that attentiveness to the body and its capacities to resist norms opens possibilities for new forms of becoming (McWhorter 1999; Heyes 2007).

This improvement is associated with a decreased perfusion of the precuneus, a brain area involved in self-focus and self-processing, arguing for a neural substrate to the impact of rTMS on HRQoL.

By the end of the day, he was back to his old self, angrily arguing against defense attorney, Chad Hummel's attempt to mention certain evidence during his opening remarks.

The troopers pleaded self-defense, arguing that the van they had stopped was backing up and attempting to run them down.

Zimmerman, 29, denies murder on the grounds of self-defence, arguing it was the 17-year-old Martin who was the aggressor in their fatal confrontation.

"We would like our citizens to follow this example," he says.But trade unions are critical of the government's self-discipline, arguing that it has done much for business, but little to improve the lot of poor South Africans.

The authors even celebrate the gradual acceptance of campaigning and the decline of the stigma of self-interest, arguing that it creates at least the possibility of open contests and informed electorates.

In his last book, At Home in the Universe, he outlined the power of self-organisation, arguing that there are laws that can generate order where we don't expect it.

It was strange to read a professor of psychology make the case against introspection and self-awareness, arguing instead that all we need to do is "be kind to others" and "act more like the person we want to be".

Barber said he supported "creating the best possible and most credible, most robust form of self-regulation", arguing that "for too long the PCC was dominated by insiders" although it was still necessary to have some editors involved.