Sentence examples for self perfection from inspiring English sources

Movie stars have been trooping to Paris with regularity since the end of World War II, none with a greater sense of self perfection than Marlene Dietrich, who had Christian Dior create a series of suspenders inside her suits so that whether she was standing or enjoying a plate of brown bread and sauerkraut at her favorite restaurant, no bad lines ever showed.

Self-perfection and service were his ideals, and the order continued to stress them.

Their movement is an extension of the process of self-perfection.

In this company the nose job depicted in Warhol's "Before and After" looks like an act of masochism rather than self-perfection.

Coaching in pro sports proceeds from a starkly different premise: it considers the teaching model naïve about our human capacity for self-perfection.

Pelagius never lived to see "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," but he might have been fascinated by its stars, who display a rapacious ambition and commitment to self-perfection that are at once terrifying and awe-inspiring.

Saint Nil Sorsky, original name Nikolay Maykov (born c. 1433 died 1508, ; feast day May 7) first Russian mystic to write about the contemplative life and to formulate a guide for spiritual self-perfection.

C. 1433 1508 Saint Nil Sorsky, original name Nikolay Maykov (born c. 1433 died 1508, ; feast day May 7), first Russian mystic to write about the contemplative life and to formulate a guide for spiritual self-perfection.

We've collectively moved away from thinking about perfection in ethical, moral, aesthetic or social terms, toward the more limited concept of self-perfection — the attainment of a personal competitive edge.

Isaac Luria (1534 72), a mystic, laid the grounds for Jewish belief in a dybbuk with his doctrine of transmigration of souls (gilgul), which he saw as a means whereby souls could continue their task of self-perfection.

Mr. Ding, whose name is very similar to the former Communist leader's, is an entrepreneur, inventor and charismatic purveyor of "self-perfection" who spent nearly three years in jail for his role as a student organizer during the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.