Sentence examples for self insisting from inspiring English sources

In an interview from 2010, Lydia sounded much closer to, shall we say, her old self, insisting that "Pain always subsides, but wisdom, love, intensity, and genius feed the soul.

The Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), once Northern Ireland's largest but today a shadow of its former self, insisted on voting against devolution of policing and justice powers.

Is Sheila, a writer struggling under the long shadow of her mother, lacking that essential selfish self, the artistic self who insists on her own needs before any other's?

Yet it makes those pleasures self-conscious, insisting that form is arbitrary.

Dr. Tiller responded with customary self-confidence, insisting that he would take the stand.

He even does in good line in self-effacement, insisting that teamwork has been the key to his personal success and that it will continue to be the key in a merged Boots.

Since then he has altered his importance within the syndicate as well as his favoured ethnic self-definition, insisting now on being considered Chinese".

As a teenager, she became more self-conscious, insisting I should never bring my white cane to school.

In defense of our president, Martha MacCallum stated on Fox's "America's Newsroom" that the value of Black life is self-evident, insisting, "Black lives matter, which of course they do".

Skulking about was lanky former Washington Post Reliable Sourcer and NYDN LowDown gossiper - now a freelancer for Vanity Fair & New York magazine, Lloyd Grove, whose favorite refrain was self-deprecatingly insisting that he "no longer has any juice" and wondering if he could even get into the after-parties.

From this point on, we have only two options: go down fighting, or capitulate and betray our loved ones, our friends and our selves by insisting that, as a brainwashed Winston Smith does at the end of Orwell's 1984, yes, 2+2 does equal 5. Do you have information you want to share with HuffPost?