Sentence examples for those selves from inspiring English sources

But people return to those selves, those ways of self-organising, as if by instinct when the situation demands it.

She laments the loss of her busy professional and domestic life: "Those selves... lie discarded in a litter of ruin behind me".

We should make peace with them and remain conscious of that, especially at this particular hinge of the calendar, when we compose a litany of promises about the better selves ahead, foolishly defining those selves in terms of what's measurable from the outside, instead of what glimmers within.

Looking at them driving off fast in every direction, a Thoreau or an Emerson might ask: "From what are they all escaping?" The answer is themselves: If only they'd stayed home and cultivated those selves they wouldn't need to escape from them.

And this is not so much because they were good or bad people, but because the pressure they were under either brought out their best selves or brought out their worst selves, and we all have both those selves in us.

Those self-identifications are changing, though.

Those self-assigned rescuers died.

I read and reread one of those self-hypnosis books.

Writing Ugly became a battle against those self-censoring urges.

"And those self-esteem issues, they're still a problem.

Of those self-made men, 22% got rich in finance, banking and investment.