Sentence examples for thinks himself to from inspiring English sources

▶ The more a writer thinks himself to be serious, the less serious his writing becomes.

He is very beautiful – more than he thinks himself to be.

Hordubal (1933) contrasts an inarticulate man's awareness of the causes of his actions with the world's incomprehension; Povětroň (1934; Meteor) illustrates the subjective causes of objective judgments; and Obyčejný život (1934; An Ordinary Life) explores the complex layers of personality underlying the "self" an "ordinary" man thinks himself to be.

But this will not do; for no one, for instance, thinks himself to be denying that he has hurt a man's feelings when he says that he did not know that he was hurting them, and, indeed, thought he was not' (85).

The full quote is: "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool".

If Romney misjudges his own standing with the electorate ala Sally Field ("you like me, right now, you like me!") and thinks himself to be a dynamic candidate who doesn't need an exciting partner, he'll choose a boring candidate like Tim Pawlenty or Rob Portman.

After his father committed suicide—"He thought himself to death"—his mother became an evangelical.

Mr. Kinkade thought himself to be the nation's most collected living artist, with sales for his works and associated products approaching $100 million annually.

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

"He is in a training camp, and there, he thinks himself closer to God.

Does that mean he has to think himself angry to write lyrics?