Sentence examples for shield ourselves from from inspiring English sources
How do we shield ourselves from distraction, or gravitate to what really matters?
"We build character and culture in order to shield ourselves from the devastating awareness of underlying helplessness and terror of our inevitable death," observed Becker.
Sure, firing squads can be messy, but if we are willing to carry out executions, we should not shield ourselves from the reality that we are shedding human blood.
YET at the same time that Mencken teaches us the importance of avoiding overnight e-mail indebtedness, he also reminds us of the need to shield ourselves from incessant distractions during the day when individual messages arrive.
But the degree to which we depend on them means that we shield ourselves from human interaction, miss out on nature's beauty, or even forget specific details of events.
" 'I can have the truth and you can't.' Who am I to say that?" Among other things, Coster-Mullen's book makes clear that our belief in the secrecy of the bomb is a theological construct, adopted in no small part to shield ourselves from the idea that someone might use an atomic bomb against us.
In India, he says: "We have a brilliant way of shielding ourselves from moral reality and pretending that nothing is going on".
At the same time, it's impossible to ignore that the animating idea of the beauty industry is that women should always be working to look better, and that means, in our culture, that we should always be working to look as young as possible — shielding ourselves from what Susan Sontag, in her essay "The Double Standard of Aging," calls the "humiliating process of gradual sexual disqualification".
It's never been more difficult to see the truth, as we've spent years shielding ourselves from it.
What does it mean to look and feel beautiful in a time when shielding ourselves from such messages is nearly impossible?
Raising strong, well-balanced, emotionally secure women (and perhaps continuing on the road to become one myself) isn't about shielding ourselves from messages that upset or offend our ideal.
