Sentence examples for spurned himself from inspiring English sources

PRINCETON, N.J. — Eugene Onegin, the overweening antihero who spurns the infatuated Tatiana in the 1833 Pushkin novel in verse that bears his name, only to be spurned himself in the end, loomed large in musical precincts of the Princeton University campus over the weekend.

Several of Godwin's past acquaintances spurned him, he found himself increasingly the subject of attack by loyalist newspapers, and his philosophical opinions were parodied and ridiculed in novels, reviews and pamphlets.

He underestimated the psychological effect on himself of being spurned by his own people.

Lewis, for one, could not imagine himself spurning a Clinton.

Widely regarded as one of France's most brilliant, if provocative, lawyers, Vergès made a name for himself by accepting clients spurned by others as impossible to defend.

The post-Iraq view from Washington is that Gerhard Schröder won re-election by taking a cheap shot at America's "adventurism", that Jacques Chirac went out of his way to sabotage America's pre-war diplomacy and that Vladimir Putin spurned America's friendship by making himself Mr Chirac's accomplice.

He has spurned the front-line, preferring to confine himself in youth and rural politics.

He has spurned most endorsement offers, because he wants to prove himself further before selling himself as a pitchman.

It is no accident that Tim Farron, the frontrunner in the Lib Dem leadership contest who spurned the chance of ministerial office, is placing himself firmly in the Kennedy tradition.

Spurned when he tried to complain, he drenched himself with gasoline and lit a match.

He kept himself lean, stayed away from red meat, spurned cigarettes and exercised intensely, even completing an Ironman Triathlon.