Sentence examples for to rewrite himself from inspiring English sources

The election results may help Christie turn the page on scandal — and allow the governor to rewrite himself into the 2016 presidential race.

Elvis Costello told Patrick Humphries in his book The Many Lives of Tom Waits, "I think I was envious [of] his ability to rewrite himself out of the corner he'd appeared to have backed himself into".

'Faulkner's desire to remain private about his personal life had within it his desire to rewrite it himself.

Chabon told me, "Having a director who's also a writer hire someone to rewrite him — firing himself, to some extent — is very rare".

Eventually, Mirkin was allowed to rewrite the script himself, which he did in a year's time.

De Klerk's ongoing attempts to rewrite history and portray himself in a more - or even equally - significant light than Mandela is profoundly saddening.

In an industry that has conspired to exploit and defraud fighters for as long as anyone can remember, he's leveraged his success to rewrite the rules for himself.

"He continues his personal vendetta against me by attempting to rewrite history by portraying himself as the single elected official who originated this court plan and brought it to fruition".

Toad is one of the greatest comic characters in English literature, worthy of comparison with his forbear Falstaff in his consistently hilarious combination of puffed-up arrogance, self-mythologising desire to rewrite history to show himself in the best light and, of course, spectacular gluttony.

Szukalski took it upon himself to rewrite history according to his own delusions.

The business of boxing has conspired to exploit and defraud fighters for as long as anyone can remember, but the 36-year-old Mayweather who in 44 pro fights has never been in serious trouble, much less been defeated has leveraged his success to rewrite the rules for himself.