But his behavior is an unfortunate statement on the extremes to which humans will self-fortify to compensate for an inadequacy or fill a void.
"The discipline of these guidelines is intended to fortify self-discipline, to minimize natural human temptation," Mr. Keller told me.
Having rechristened the O'Neills as the Tyrones and substituted Edmund, the name of a brother who had died in infancy, for his own, O'Neill set the action on one ghastly summer's day in 1912, a time when his diagnosis of tuberculosis threatened to collapse his mother back into a heroin addiction and fortify the self-pitying alcoholism of his father, elder brother, and himself.
Over the years, Wilson argued that American communities responded to the stresses of industrialization by fortifying self-control.
As Ms. Reed explained, this self-selection is fortified within voting districts by the dominant party's tendency to cluster like-minded voters together.
We therefore fortify our own self-image as a defense mechanism, as if to say, "We see what you're trying to do here... and we're not falling for it".
The first kind of silence requires an emptying out of the self in order to be receptive to God; the other fortifies the self in order to be inventively godlike.
Hume needs some trick to fortify the idea of the self, because he will rely on our possession of a lively idea of the self, one that will serve as a source of vivacity, for his account of the sympathetic communication of passions.
Behind these massacres, invariably, was the old canard of Jews killing Christian children for their blood, but with a new twist: Jews now craved gentile blood not just to make matzos, supposedly, but to fortify their own emaciated selves.
Far from scuttling your job search time, you'll be fortifying your sense of self worth and making a difference at the same time.
The League of Nations, however, decided in 1921 to award Finland sovereignty over the islands, though with certain conditions pertaining to internal self-government and limiting the right to fortify or otherwise utilize the islands for military purposes.
