Lewis saw this type as "an individual emancipated from history, happily bereft of ancestry, untouched and undefiled by the usual inheritances of family and race; an individual standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his own unique and inherent resources".
It was the myth - "often illusory, but of immense cultural resonance" - of the great second chance, the opportunity to remake the world, that provided American culture with its presiding figure, the American Adam, "standing alone, self-reliant and self-propelling, ready to confront whatever awaited him with the aid of his unique and inherent resources".
Get your self esteem ready: During middle school, you may experience many blows to your self esteem.
At the start of the drive, Wakefield spoke with the calmness of the self-certain, ready with a counterargument for every concern.
Foodie meal kits: Gourmet meal kits with pre-measured, pre-prepared ingredients and even simpler self-assemble "ready meals" are together a growing trend.
Ask his academy players at Leeds about Lancaster and they will tell you of an individual with a rare capacity for self-criticism, ready to search his soul for ways of being a better leader, motivator and communicator.
QUESTION FROM GUEST: It's odd how though we may want to return to the self-selection, ready for action world of college, in college no one really dates… NICK PAUMGARTEN: Well, that's just it.
Mead writes that America's future belongs to the "Jacksonians": lower-middle-class white Americans who are patriotic, religious, insular, self-reliant, ready to take the fight ruthlessly to the enemy abroad, and hostile to élites at home, their passions best articulated by George W. Bush in his "dead or alive" mode.
Too many members — as evidenced by angry responses from readers of the recent news reports — would say that AARP has become greedy and self-serving, ready to sacrifice older Americans' political interests to its own economic bottom line, which is no longer dependent just on members' dues, but has broadened to include a range of profit-making activities.
