Sentence examples for twisted self from inspiring English sources

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Owl caught snake, snake twisted self around owl so latter unable to fly, fell to ground with prey.

This player is not to be confused with Player #2, who needs no help to unleash his or her twisted self.

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And before we can return to respect, morality, sexuality, kindness, humor and appreciation of each other, we must rid ourselves of the man and the movement that have made destruction prevail, turned spontaneity into violence and twisted self-love into shame.

Schadomsky said: "We have made it clear we will not be arm twisted into self-censorship.

By then he was rigic, sweating, nearly blinded, and in a state of imbalance He launched himself into the air & realizing he was turning too far, twisted for self-protection, struck the wire with his chest & went sprawling to the floor Tells about his other two attempts.

Twisting the self-help format into deadpan comedy, she guides wily readers through the paces and pratfalls of serious mischief.

The crushing desire to wake him up and confront him twisted into constant self-admonishments about my own cowardice.

But the US philosopher Alfred Mele identified a phenomenon he calls "twisted self-deception": when the self-deceiver convinces himself of the truth of precisely what he does not want to believe.

But here his comic rage over the various forms of acquisitiveness and twisted self-justification that he sees running unchecked in American life is attached to a warning of global consequences.

That chaste image was glaringly at odds with the one she presents in her artwork, a series of twisted self-portraits — photographs, works on paper or canvas — in which she puffs on a fistful of cigarettes; poses as a nun, naked in a wimple; or bleeds from lacerations, symbols of the pain she suffered in past love affairs.

There's another, similar phenomenon I like to call the Proust Paradox, after Marcel's relationship with Albertine: you are engaged in twisted self-deception; you are lying yourself into what you don't want to believe; and then it turns out that you were right all along.

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