Sentence examples for steady oneself from inspiring English sources

One needed the stage-props of a romanticized past and tradition to steady oneself in the mundane world of the present, which one was loath to accept as it is.

They are not designed to bear someone's full body weight of course, but are very useful in a space that has little with which to steady oneself.

Perhaps this is an old actor's trick, developed in response to years of rejection; in a President, it has its uses as a way of keeping oneself in steady forward motion.

It was odd, she thought, how if one was alone, one leant to inanimate things; trees, streams, flowers; felt they expressed one; felt they became one; felt they knew one, in a sense were one; felt an irrational tenderness thus (she looked at that long steady light) as for oneself.

It was as if the artistic look were surplus to requirements; or, rather, as if to don the outer crust of an insurance agent or an advertising man — to conduct oneself like the steady Nebraskan citizen that Kees might have stayed to become — struck him as the slyest of disguises, enabling him to slip his poems under the door, without being noticed or making a scene.

One only has to remind oneself of the steady stream of scandals in the banking industry to fear the impact of money upon the ethics of science.

Occasionally, listening to Titus Andronicus can feel like a war between parsing Mr. Stickles and giving oneself over to the band, which is steady and decisive even when he isn't.

On the other hand, because compassion can be extended to oneself in both good times and bad, we expected the feelings of self-worth to remain steadier over time among self-compassionate people.

A perfectly torn out notebook page reads (handwritten in blue felt tip pen): ' to) place oneself in ones own language in the position of those who have lost it to establish oneself in a living language as if it were dead or in a dead language as if it were living', clear frosted plastic containers, the steady steam from a humidifier, pine.

"One must show oneself deserving," he said.

Is it possible to smack down oneself?