Sentence examples for understood himself as from inspiring English sources

Jesus, moreover, understood himself as a prophet, not a priest.

I wondered if he understood himself as part of that expansive pronoun "we".

He understood himself as an organism designed not to last long.

The 976 pages began for Solomon 10 years ago as a kind of quest, and like all writer's quests it was, to start with, an effort on his part to understand himself as much as the world.

Murphy understands himself as a chronicler of American decline.

These are events he anticipates, fears, and relishes, and in which he understands himself as performing well or badly.

You can't win!" He would rather simply understand himself as someone who gets a lot out of giving, then harness that feeling, study it and see how the mechanisms involved can inspire others to succeed.

In this learned and radical pastor, Mr. Obama found a guide who could explain Jesus and faith in terms intellectual no less than emotional, and who helped a man of mixed racial parentage come to understand himself as an African-American.

The most outspoken structuralist with respect to logical constants, who explicitly understands himself as such, is Koslow.

To cast Baraka as a superannuated sixties radical is to miss the point: he understood himself, rightly, as a single link in an ancestral chain that is older than slavery and unbroken by history's detours and convolutions.

I understand as much as I can.