Ms. Mirren's Elizabeth comforts and cheers her instinctively rebellious younger self, reminding her, if I may borrow from Peter Allen, that a queen doesn't cry out loud, and that a life outside the public glare is only a fantasy.
She passed into scandal and into medical history, with her multiple marriages and illnesses, a memory of a star in which only her emanations of an earlier self reminded us that she was the last splendid flowering of a dying studio system that no longer had the will or the audience to sustain special people like her.
Thus, while Herbart's language of a culminating, reflective science of the self may remind one of an Idealistic absolute science, he takes great pains to distance his notion of science from speculative or intuitionistic metaphysics.
Others, like Eric Enright's tale of self-hatred, remind us that the concerns of junior high are often far from funny.
The actors Viva and Louis Waldon — sort of having sex and talking and talking, with miserable self-consciousness — remind me of a lot that I had blessedly forgotten about those days.
The recent Tibetan self-immolations remind us that the practice's longest history is in China, where, beginning in the fourth century A.D., Buddhist monks took to sitting in pyres to propitiate ganying, the force that binds the corporeal and ethereal.
In those moments when you start to feel self-conscious, remind yourself that no one really gives a flip, so why not just be you?
When Rabinow (2003, p. 10) describes the Greek notion of care of the self, he reminds us that it involved an 'unlearning of bad habits as well as the forming of good ones'.
They were much happier about team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose cool and self-possession reminded me of Joe Torre.
