Sentence examples for shaping himself from inspiring English sources

He rested his head beside her pillow, shaping himself to complement her shape, breathing in the complicated odor of her head — hair product, smoke, sweat, something metallic, perhaps from her various piercing hardware.

I think one of the most inspiring things about what Jesse Williams keeps saying about the Black Lives Matter movement is that he is truly shaping himself into a powerful, thoughtful, and effective voice and leader, and that's what this changing political climate needs.

"A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground," he wrote.

He seems to have cast off the gloom of last year and is instead trying to shape himself into a happy, likable candidate.

Whereas Mr. Pope.L has shaped himself into a distinctive racial presence, certain other artists of color are literally built from scratch.

But from his socially responsible lyrics to the musical details that ignite every hybrid groove, Mr. N'Dour has deliberately shaped himself as a musical diplomat.

This vitality allowed Moon to try to shape himself to the changing dynamics of the music, listening as much to the percussive deviations of the bass line as to the steady, obvious line of the lead singer.

When Herrera's cross reached Ibrahimovic at a slightly awkward height a goal seemed certain as the Swede shaped himself for a mid-air volley at the far post.

In a commonplace book, he jotted down the advice Shackleton had given after the sinking of the Endurance: "A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground".

On a smaller scale, but also deeply affecting, was "Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte" (first staged in the mid-1980s and revived as recently as two years ago) in which the performance artist John Kelly shaped himself into the contorted self-portraits of the Viennese Expressionist painter Egon Schiele.

Only in Francine's case, the object of her youthful affection is Jalaeka, an androgynous, magnetic blend of Jesus Christ and David Bowie, who might be the god Eros in corporeal form — or who might be an artificial construct, bound to shape himself to the wishes and desires of others.