Sentence examples for sever himself from inspiring English sources

Perhaps as a result, Tweedy seemed anxious to sever himself from the past — "the stuff behind us, pulling at us," he called it.

While Alberto turned to the law to sever himself from Patrick, Patrick turned to literature to make common cause with Alberto: "I wanted my first book to be a riposte to all those who, by insulting my father, had wounded me.

Yet the White House initially opposed the inquiry, then sought to steer its gavel to Henry Kissinger, whose unsuitability for the task was made clear when Mr. Kissinger backed out rather than sever himself from a consulting business that presented rampant possible conflicts of interest.

A character is speaking here (Dufresne is not above bantering with his characters), but aside from the exculpatory relevance of what he says, the comment reveals a curious reluctance on the author's part to sever himself from any of the people he has invented.

On the Republican side, Governor Bush has severed himself from the Beltway battles.

But here's the weird part of the argument we've been having about when Romney really, truly severed himself from Bain.

Once part of a successful double-act with a Jewish comedian, Dieudonné severed himself from the entertainment mainstream in France about 10 years ago.

With the help of his sainted mother, he had severed himself from his companion and had tried to flee from ardor, from arousal.

Heresy differs from schism in that the heretic sometimes remains in the church despite his doctrinal errors, whereas the schismatic may be doctrinally orthodox but severs himself from the church.

But beneath the bravura Uncle Rudolf is as tormented and guilt-ridden as his nephew; having severed himself from his homeland with the same brutal determination he exercised with his nephew, he then sealed his fate in a Faustian exchange, trading his true destiny as a lyric tenor of critical renown for the gaudy glamour of the operetta stage.

At 20, he indicated the kind of musician he would become when he grabbed the opportunity to play in a concert in Brisbane because it would enable him to look at the only facsimile in Australia of Handel's autograph copy of "Messiah".Sir Charles has lived in London since 1947, without ever severing himself from his roots (he conducted the first performance in the Sydney Opera House).