Are we now a horde of individuals driven by self-interest, striving for life's lottery win, the big break.
During menopause, many women become self-critical, striving to look like the prepubescent teen models you see in glossy magazines.
A symphonic interlude "in modo d'una Sarabanda" limns Faust's higher, striving self.
Behind her gorgeous and vivacious exterior is an amazing intelligent woman who speaks her mind about staying true to one's self and continuously striving to conquer new goals.
Reid, along with his one-time mentor Craig Raine, is an exponent of so-called Martian poetry, which self-consciously strives to use curious visual metaphors and to describe the familiar in unfamiliar and insightful ways, as though through the eyes of a Martian (Raine's 1979 collection of poetry A Martian Sends a Postcard Home is a key text).
Hunt Lieberson displays no sense of self-consciousness, no striving for artistic effect.
Her score-like songs are self-sabotagingly slow, striving for Rat-Pack romance and often succeeding.
Let's not look down on others and make them grasp for their self-worth through striving.
Mr. Ahmad said he hoped his book can reclaim the word "jihad" back from the terrorists who "hijacked it from the Muslim community, and turned something meant to be a positive, spiritual struggle, or striving for self improvement into something ugly, dark and fear-inspiring".
"What if...," "I have a feeling that... .. and "Something tells me... .. are largely a figment of the imagination of a psychological self that simply strives to safeguard a failing sense of self-worth.
What's delicious about seeing the decapitated front-runner grovel, cuddle and muddle through TV appearances, striving to be self-aware and self-deprecating, but often ending up looking self-conscious?
