Sentence examples for stretching oneself from inspiring English sources
They have been encouraging me to cook new dishes — apparently never having understood that it's the parent who is supposed to offer exhortations about the value of stretching oneself.
The most Mills & Boon moment is when Edwina turns to free verse to describe her secret lover: 'I taught him to stretch out, keep stretching, go through barriers, push and push oneself, find oneself out in the stratosphere, float out there with your lover, together with laughter drifting past the stars.' Love him one moment, sell him down the river the next.
But stretching and breathing techniques used to calm oneself are entirely different than putting a crystal under your pillow and expecting an ear infection to disappear overnight.
Yoga: Although yoga involves a lot of stretching and holding certain poses, it also teaches practitioners how to be calm, how to stay focused, how to balance and how to relax oneself.
Action includes "saying inasmuch as it is a doing, ordinary action inasmuch as it is an intervention into the course of things, narration inasmuch as it is the narrative reassembling of a life stretched out in time, and finally, the capacity to impute to oneself or to others the responsibility for acting" ("De l'esprit," Revue Philosophique de Louvain 92 19944): 248).
(Children's books like "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" stretch matters a bit; I don't quite see the point in reading them all by oneself).
