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It's a vernacular that people who "are nothing if not multiple vectors of desire"—sometimes adopt when the attempt to wrestle those multifarious forces into a coherent self proves too much.

In "Three Women," a little-known radio verse play about the agonies and compensations of motherhood that Plath wrote in 1962 (less than a year before asphyxiating herself in a gas oven at the age of 30), she depicts the act of birth as an utter redefinition of the self: "What did my fingers do before they held him?" Self proves slippery here in other ways too.

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The habits and propensities of the self prove recalcitrant and never admit of wholesale reinvention.

Categorisation of the body, emotions and spirit as inherently separate dimensions of self, proved problematic, and may explain the lack of a consistent somatic patterning to depressive symptoms in this population.

"The Stunt Man," his most cheerful project, has fared better, and O'Toole, with a grateful nod toward Lean, enjoyed himself to no end as a tyrannical film director; even then, however, the echo of his more dandified selves proved difficult to dispel.

Even though selfing proved to be a substantial issue in R. balthica, the mating system population differences had a surprisingly low effect on the distribution of genetic variability, as shown by the low correlation between the degree of selfing and genetic variability measures H Eand A (r = 0.30, p = 0.006 and r = 0.22, p = 0.045, respectively).

Furthermore, Trump's reasoning that self financing proves he "can't be bought" has huge logical holes.

The self-mutilation proves useless.

He said that economic analysis of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's self-enrichment proves the concept.

Picking a path toward this argument that doesn't immediately cave in under the weight of self-contradiction proves to be a difficult task.

Solotaroff shakes his ruffian friends and the drugs soon enough, but a suffocating sense of self-loathing proves harder to let go of.

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