Sentence examples for self found from inspiring English sources

Is our "true self" found or made?

After signing with William Morris, Mr. Self found himself producing "The Frank Sinatra Show," an unmitigated disaster with no particular format and minimal interest shown by the star.

Eventually my impatient younger self found the wall-after-wall repetition of duly important photographs interminable, and I fled to the grand variety of the paintings galleries for a little relief.

When he ran in 2000, his philosophy of national greatness — the importance, as he always puts it, of "serving a cause greater than one's self" — found its expression in ideas like national service and campaign reform, proposals that independents and even many liberals could embrace.

Ten years were to pass before his next collection, The Man With Night Sweats (1992): here, with terrible irony, the poet who had sought to lose "the self" found himself "less defined" and "unsupported" as his self-defining friends died of Aids.

Outside philosophy the modern self found its most powerful expression in a new valuation of commerce.

Note to self: Find ad with pic of cheetah, for I.O.U.

Self finds itself between two of its biggest competitors in women's fitness magazines.

This nascent self finds its own interests in the world, and who can predict what its concerns will be, what it will eventually write?

Hughes goes on to say that "when a real self finds language, and manages to speak, it is surely a dazzling event".

In the frigid Arctic and the red Australian desert, Self finds the same thing: brightly desperate people with lots of ready cash, seeking an encounter with the big, the alien, the strange, and, also, the bliss of the escape.