Sentence examples for to create himself from inspiring English sources

However, in order to do it, he had to create himself, his own image … He put a great deal of work into it – it was hard for him, but he passed that exam with flying colours.

In "As Pequenas Memä(3$)rias," his childhood memoirs, which were recently published in Portugal, he portrays his native village, to which he returned from Lisbon for long stretches every year, as "the pouch into which this small marsupial -- quiet, secret, solitary -- retreated in order to create himself".

There is certainly anecdotal evidence that new technologies were leading composers' ears in certain directions, a notable instance being the kinds of sustained chords and terraced delays Mr. Boulez wrote into his Third Piano Sonata in imitation of electronic music whose effects he envied but was technologically unable to create himself.

Tjaronn Chery moves well to create himself a few yards of space and tries to chip the goalkeeper from the edge of the area, but misses the target.

Perhaps Johnson didn't have to create himself.

By his third year Wilde had truly begun to create himself and his myth, and saw his learning developing in much larger ways than merely the prescribed texts.

Sex and its attendant emotional intimacies, Holroyd adds, "robbed him of his authority and the hard discipline of work through which he was trying to re-create himself".

He kind of reinforces the kind of genealogy he wants to create for himself.

Soon dissatisfied with quality control, Whitfield fought to be allowed to create records himself.

He recalled the legends that he helped to create around himself, with journalists' compliance.

And that's the very legacy he wants to create for himself.