The intake of blood turns Bat Boy into a whirlwind of eclectic knowledge and a model, incidentally, of the reconstituted, perfected American self, asserting its vindictive intellectual triumph: I'm gonna Vince van Gogh them And Henry Thoreau them, And Plato, And Cato, And Edgar Allan Poe them... Gonna Jackie O them, Marilyn Monroe them Botticelli, Machiavelli, Larry, Curly and Moe them!
These findings, albeit only among American and Japanese, suggest that 3-year-olds tend to self-assert in an aggressive fashion.
Through an analysis of what is said and how it is presented, as text, design and hyperlinks, I show how individuals are positioned by corporate discourses yet manage to carve a sense of self to assert professional credibility.
But of course there was no chance for her to rethink any of this, and so there was no chance for another of her talents — saving people from their worst selves — to assert itself.
But, seriously, it is a matter of trying to preserve one's own sense of self, and to assert one's individuality without being too rambunctious about it".
There was something about the joviality and regularity of those homes that he missed in his own life — or it just felt right in some meaningful way that his 3-year-old self needed to assert.
The viewer is filled with tenderness for this child who can scarcely see how lovely she is in all her ruthless self-criticism, asserting "her right to be the author of herself", to quote the 70s rhetoric.
Mr. Olmert's statements have been not only supportive of the left; they have been highly self-critical, asserting that his earlier views, the ones on which he was brought up, were just wrong.
Bibó's "crime" was authorship of a memorandum on the possible solution of the "Hungarian question", of how to find a compromise between János Kádár's regime, shored up by Soviet bayonets, and the national self-determination asserted by the 1956 revolution.
To lead a morally significant life, one's actions must express a self-consciously asserted will.
Theories that dwell on self-interested behaviour assert that individuals are less interested in the wellbeing of others and are driven primarily by self-gain.
