Sentence examples for the selfhood from inspiring English sources

Her life, she says, is "a pin-light bent", as you would find in a camera obscura; the "selfhood" of this most singular of talents is merely "lent".

But, suffering from terminal cancer and fearful that the effects of the drugs and pain to come would strip her of the selfhood she had fought so hard over the years to piece together, Hayley couldn't.

Mabey's forthcoming The Cabaret of Plants argues for "a new language" with which to accommodate the "selfhood" of plants: "metaphor and analogy may be the best we can do, but they will have to be toughened by an acceptance that the plant world is a parallel life system to our own, intimately connected with it, but still existentially different".

W. James Booth has remarked on the necessity of invoking memory in discussions of group identity to ask how "the sameness, the selfhood, of the group or political community across time and change" (and, I might add, space) is constituted (3).

The ability to contemplate and reflect upon the condition of the self and the selfhood of others derives from the relationship which the organism bears with respect to its next higher organisational levels: the pair, group, or society of which it is a part (the 'Umwelt' of the organism).

Which reflects the truer selfhood of the woman who is queen: the regally resplendent trappings of her job or the secluded comforts of her personal chair?

But the celebrity selfhood celebrated by the public is becoming a problem for the Beijing government, which has historically chosen its heroes and compelled them to serve the needs of the Chinese Communist Party.

For now, though, we remain with the poet in her "camouflage of concentration / in which everything gains / the slow stealth of the same selfhood".

From out of the presence of selfhood, the human being opens up into relations with others, and the new thinker relates to those ultimate aims which she shares with these others as future.

There is increasing interest in studying the neural correlates of such phenomena as emotion, the experience of selfhood, and the very fact of consciousness itself, but also in demonstrating the indispensability of the study of conscious life (understood as embodied and socially embedded) to the explanation of behavior in general [ 18, 71].

The abortionist Constanza is as preoccupied with the meanings of selfhood as the teenager Ciccio; both are equally prone to unburdening themselves of gloriously turned soliloquies.