Sentence examples for self-negation from inspiring English sources

Attractiveness is for the world of mere entertainment; art requires self-negation, suffering, sacrifice.

And then there was his inability to comprehend the despair and self-negation he inflicted on others.

That self-negation is what she sought from the project: she immersed herself in Selma the way Selma surrenders to fate.

"Compressing his feelings into a few zones of color," Rosenberg wrote, "he was at once dramatist, actor, and audience of his self-negation".

West, whose pen name was based on one of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's female characters, was similarly interested in female self-negation.

Who are you?" It's painful to encounter such drastic self-negation in any form, let alone to imagine the difficulty it posed for Dickinson, whose chosen genre, lyric poetry, requires the cultivation of a strong individual voice.

The annihilation of the self, as the negation of negation "constitutes the basis of every selfless morality since ancient times," asserts Watsuji (Watsuji 1996, 225).

Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself".

The Stoics' apophatikon directly prefigures the iterating and self-cancelling propositional negation of Frege and Russell.

These examples are not disconnected; they represent different manifestations of the same trend--self-absorption and negation of the other.

An architectural aesthetic long regarded as a negation of self is revealed to be the crystallized expression of a path toward self-discovery.