Sentence examples for self-vindication from inspiring English sources
It's not about self-vindication.
His success was simultaneously a surprise to him and a form of self-vindication.
Where Reta is rueful, we sense the author's angrier self-vindication.
The responses ranged from remorse to self-vindication, with lots of tortured doubt and defensiveness in between.
By contrast, Mr Lee's own attempt at self-vindication, "My Country Versus Me", is badly written, sanctimonious and dull.
The symphony is widely regarded as an act of self-vindication on Shostakovich's part after Stalin's death.
She returns to the primacy of the individual that characterised early Protestantism, not as a vindication of the self-seeking economic competition that she sees as a corroding force in the public life of the west, but as an exacting personal obligation to seek the good of others.
At that moment the concert felt like more than a case of luxury casting and became a vindication of the always self-effacing but often brilliant work of film composers.
James T. Holly, who advocated emigration to, and himself subsequently settled in, Haiti and authored a lengthy work devoted to "defending the inherent capabilities of the Negro race, for self-government and civilized progress" (A Vindication of the Capacity of the Negro Race for Self-Government and Civilized Progress, 1857), was a clergyman.
For back-to-nature true believers in one corner of Northern California, the state's ongoing power crisis is a vindication of their philosophy of self-sufficiency.
"It shall work, either as officer or private, until we achieve what we are all struggling for — the vindication of a sacred right, self-government!" Who could resist such selfless devotion to the Confederate cause?
