Sentence examples for self torn from inspiring English sources
But as given exhilarating (and willfully irritating) life, from pre-adolescence to young adulthood, by Ms. O'Flynn, this girl is a radiantly divided self, torn between the need for flight and the gravitational pull of Stockport.
Tom Mothersdale's Tom has an easy assurance as he shuttles between the increasingly regretful nostalgia of the narrator and edgy tautness of his younger self, torn between love and duty and the desperate need to tear off the shackles of labour drudgery and father-deserted family.
At its best -- particularly in those scenes where Einar seems to stand at the border of his two selves, torn between hope for the female and disgust for the male -- The Danish Girl" conjures a memorable look inside the mysterious black box of human sexuality.
Your self is torn apart when someone comes and says, 'You're not a European anymore.' It's crazy".
It is possible to emerge from a Twitter storm without having had your self-respect torn to pieces.
Hassel Smith's 1944 "Self-Portrait," torn out of a spiral drawing pad, emanates restless energy.
My overinflated ego and underestimated sense of self-worth tore me down.
Yes, he was a dedicated journalist, a self-defined feminist and a man who believed that corporate self-dealing tore at the social contract — he was also, as Gabrielsson points out, "constantly drinking coffee, smoking and working like a fiend, but the resemblance basically stops there".
Though my story was a terrible one I had broken the cycle and mended a torn self.
"Am I the fairy godmother?" Bonds, it turns out, is not quite as impervious to criticism as he pretends; nor is he immune to self-pity, tearing up at one point while declaring that baseball can take him down, he doesn't care, he could just walk away, except that there are so many people who need him, who depend on him — his family, his teammates, the fans.
