Sentence examples for torn himself from inspiring English sources

On days when he has neglected to do the full workout, he has torn himself out of bed at 2 a.m. to run and swim in the dark.

Twenty-four yeago ago, Cronenberg made a movie called "The Dead Zone," and I sometimes wonder whether, for all his formal brilliance, he has ever torn himself away from that locked-in, airless state of mind.

The man had escaped from an art project built by a serial killer Hannibal had never met: he'd torn himself out of a mural comprising dozens of corpses, of varying skin tones — racial diversity reinterpreted as pigment, people reduced to brushstrokes.

Still, he can't tear himself away from it.

He'd have to tear himself away from the mirror.

As a result, he was tearing himself apart.

He spins until he falls, pulls himself up, collapsing and tearing himself into new steps.

When he turned round, however, I saw him brush away a tear himself.

One of them, Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), climbs onto her and can hardly tear himself away.

He regretfully tore himself away from them and they from him.

When he was 15, he tore himself "from a belief in God," he wrote.