Sentence examples for self-reassuring from inspiring English sources

This is a 23-item measure eliciting a score for self critical thinking and self-reassuring thoughts.

I am less decent, less ascetic, far more materialistic ("pagan" would be my self-reassuring euphemism).

The part of you that is usually reasonable and self-reassuring has been momentarily knocked out of commission.

Participants complete the Forms of Self-critical/Attacking and Self-reassuring Scale (FSCRS) [ 15].

One reason for their continued use may be the self-reassuring strategies described above and their impression of having control over the situation.

But those looking for an easy-to-follow, reassuring self-help guide will be disappointed; Edkins's vocals are often engulfed in equal parts feedback and dread.

A well-phrased quote emphasising the things a person can achieve could boost our ideal self, or one reassuring us that hard work is normal and necessary may shore up our ought self.

Anyone worried that Beckett might have been getting a little sentimental in this memory play, in which a 69-year-old man listens to tape recordings of his younger self, will be reassured by Wilson's determinedly chilly staging.

We decide that it means something that a person likes cats instead of dogs, or has a certain kind of artsy tattoo, or can land a good joke in a text, but, really, these are reassuring self-deceptions.

Before we all leap into the fray over that last one, Palmer's definition of the spiritual aspect of self will be reassuring: "the diverse ways we answer the heart's longing to be connected with the largeness of life a longing that animates the love and work, especially the work called teaching" (p. 5).

(3) The usefulness of vaccination, i.e. the Meningococcal C catch-up campaign, was measured by a visual analog scale (VAS) with three semantic differential word pairs (reassuring/not reassuring; beneficial/not beneficial, self-evident/not self-evident).