Sentence examples for supposed himself from inspiring English sources

Lord Kelvin supposed himself to have proved that this world as a scene of life cannot be more than 25,000,000 years old".

This was a revelation when he first proposed it, during a time when monarchies ruled, the earth was deemed inexhaustible, and Man supposed himself to be the ruler (and plunderer) of all he surveyed.

Torvald supposes himself the ethical member of the family, while his wife assumes the role of a pretty irresponsible in order to flatter him.

Audiard supposes himself to be on the side of outsiders, in the schematic set-up he lays out, but the irony of his film is that everyone in in it is an outsider.

This is "all that can be said about what truly exists," and reality is thus revealed as "something utterly different from the world in which each one of us supposes himself to live," a world which is nothing but a "deceitful show" (Guthrie 1965, 51).

No more renaissance men — I suppose Leonardo himself might have been frustrated by the sheer amount of info he'd have to command.

One early creation, Radio Wave, is supposed to transmit himself through the air in his quest to right injustice.

Their chairman is, as a matter of policy, supposed to confine himself to public statements reflecting the "conference consensus".

As South Carolina's unlikely Democratic nominee for the Senate, he was supposed to introduce himself, shake hands and ask for votes.

The police told me he lived in a nearby building and that he was supposed to turn himself in that morning.

And how is a man supposed to distance himself from the person he loves most in the world when that person is his own flesh and blood?