But the fact is that we have vast potential to expand not just our range of skills over the course of a lifetime, but also to deepen our self-awareness, relax our self-absorption, widen our circle of care and lengthen our perspective.
Miguel de Unamuno — whose name is impossible to say without smiling — believed "self-love widens into love of all that lives".
Miguel de Unamuno whose name is impossible to say without smiling believed "self-love widens into love of all that lives".
But along comes Anthony Page's infinitely nuanced production of the play, at the Old Vic Theatre through Nov. 27, and what could seem a study in giddy self-absorption widens into something deeper, stranger, and every bit as glistening: A portrait of a ménage a trois — creative types all — who make it their job to laugh in the face of the dreary void some people call life.
Since then, the profile of Tibetans who have self-immolated has widened.
"I think self-publishing has widened the world" of creatives, said David Rolfe, a producer with Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder.
In favour of a widened and self-sustaining society, it must inveigh equally against the plutocractic outcomes of the market and the state.
Whether its social and environmental justice issues in Flint, Michigan, the concerning climate of a national Presidential election, or the unfolding debauchery of the Panama Papers, ego and self-interest are widening a deep gorge between a sustainable future, or one that is fraught with fear.
The efforts to widen self-censorship and endless praising of a single leader under every condition and about every issue doesn't help produce science, art or technology.
He widened his eyes in self-ridicule, then, the next moment, his expression became somber.
