Sentence examples for self borrow from inspiring English sources

As Herzog knew, all of us, when it comes to constructing our sense of self, borrow bits and pieces, ideas and phrases, rituals and products from the world around us — over-the-counter ethnicities that shape, in some small but meaningful way, our identities.

(Note to self: Never borrow another person's cellphone without a sanitary wipe handy).

Or maybe our cyborg selves will borrow the best from software and souls to forge another path and, crucially, other professions.

Don't punish your future self by borrowing against your retirement.

These tracks are densely self-referential, borrowing lyrics and themes from Costello's past.

Scott Parker, with his First World War officer's haircut and a devoted attitude to self-sacrifice borrowed from the same era, is another candidate.

Moir's creation – Vic Reeves – was a perverse version of a "light-ent" compere but with the attitudes and self-belief borrowed from a rock star.

"I just hope everybody has a…", he said before pausing and then veering sharply away from banality and back into self-parody, borrowing the lyrics of an old Coca Cola advertisement.

I'm not entirely sure what he was trying to pull off in "London to Brighton" or even if Mr. Williams knew what he was trying to pull off, despite a visual style that seems self-consciously borrowed from the Dardennes, a title that nods in the direction of Greene and that little red hoodie.

Not thrilled with Amazon's latest strategy to pay self-published borrowed books is a pool based on pages read?

When two people become a couple, the brain extends its idea of self to include the other; instead of the slender pronoun "I," a plural self emerges who can borrow some of the other's assets and strengths.