Sentence examples for unlike oneself from inspiring English sources

Identification with authors unlike oneself can create solidarity, experiment, freedom.

Any story about writers and actors is implicitly a story about characters: how and why they change; how one creates or becomes someone unlike oneself.

Creating him required on Tolstoy's part qualities other than introspection: attentiveness to the peculiarities of social life, the ability to conceive the thinking of people morally and psychologically unlike oneself, and fairmindedness.

Hunt suggests a causal chain: reading epistolary novels about characters unlike oneself exercises the ability to put oneself in other people's shoes, which turns one against cruel punishments and other abuses of human rights.

It is, in fact, not unlike forcing oneself to choose the ten greatest works of art of all time.

So to break it down: Self-esteem, or confidence in one's worth, requires nurturing oneself physically, spiritually, emotionally, and intellectually – but unlike the confidence boost you get in an instant from posting a selfie, self esteem is better worth investing time in building.

It's one unlike the typical sense of melancholy, the sense of steeling oneself for the dark and twisted turns of the series.

It will certainly have enhanced Heath's claims on posterity, that, after cunningly wresting its ownership from the Cathedral, he invested in the kind of listed, historic property that, unlike Mrs Thatcher's executive home in Dulwich, immediately entitles the owner to proclaim oneself a custodian of the nation's heritage.

Unlike the ethnic density hypothesis which implies benefits of being around people similar to oneself, the contact hypothesis suggests that prejudicial beliefs may be reinforced when individuals are surrounded by more of their own group and with fewer opportunities to meet other ethnic groups on a regular basis, thereby increasing the risk of experiencing racism when interactions do occur.

Religion means understanding oneself.

"One must show oneself deserving," he said.