Sentence examples for self-admonition from inspiring English sources

Originally intended for his private guidance and self-admonition, the Meditations has endured as a potent expression of Stoic belief.

Steck's subsequent vow to cool it a bit (he ended his Explorers Club talk with the self-admonition "Slow down and stay alive") has not deterred him from devising ambitious excursions, what he calls "projects".

What begins in a gesture toward the permissive forms of received tradition (McSweeney begins with a query: "Is it ok... ..) soon becomes a neo-Whitmanesque self-admonition ("I loaf and invite myself to lock and load").

It's as if the moment calls for the kind of self-help admonition that you might hear from Oprah's couch, or the ballroom of your local Hilton.

Yes, Prince did it, and he changed it from a dissection of self-loathing to an admonition to feel uplifted.

And as new correlatItns are being made and validated, that list grows.

I'm sick of their pally, sugar-coated admonitions to be my beautiful self.

But his admonition was eventually incorporated into the fans' self-image; you see self-aware, amused references to it in sci-fi blogs when someone goes on about something in a way that he knows may brand him as a geek.

Its self-exalting rhymes flow into a self-implicating admonition against pride; Lamar checks himself before he wrecks himself while giving every assurance of his capacity to wreck you.

Beneath all the mud and gloom and dire admonitions, there burned an ember of self-satisfaction — of pride in their wretched circumstance and willingness to endure it.

McMaster was careful to couch these admonitions in the realist idiom of narrow self-interest, telling his troops that such hostile sentiments did "the enemy's work for them," by radicalizing Iraqis.