Sentence examples for unstable identity from inspiring English sources

This is an unstable identity.

Haysom's diagnosis was borderline personality disorder, a condition of unstable identity and impulse control.

This range of appellations reflects the unstable identity of the swimmer, who suffers both class and sexual confusion.

Der meshugener batlen ("The Mad Talmudist") enters the mind of a yeshiva boy who reflects on his unstable identity and illicit desires.

Gamely performed by a fine English cast in Kokami's awkward production, Halcyon Days falls back on the formula the author used in Trance, his play about social alienation and unstable identity seen at the Bush a few years ago.

For a writer whose subject was unstable identity, Woolf left behind a wealth of images finessed for the world at large, be that Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell's paintings of her, Man Ray's photos, or the various images of the stylish women published in Vogue.

Writing in the Paris Review, her biographer Joan Schenkar says that Highsmith's novels "suck [the] reader into their bottomless vortex of moral relativities, transferable guilts and unstable identities".

In such novels as "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley," Highsmith won a large, mostly European readership with her creepily effective portraits of homicidal antiheroes; here, however, there is only the one murder (on the first page), after which the novel becomes a comedy of shifting, unstable identities to which the dramas of sexual uncertainty at its heart add a 90's edge.

Many readers will equate the very word "cyberpunk" with the sights and sounds of Ridley Scott's seminal 1982 movie Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and there's no problem with that, at all – it's an iconic, beautiful film with a unique sense of oppressive loneliness and unstable identities.

Many readers will equate the very word "cyberpunk" with the sights and sounds of Ridley Scott's seminal 1982 movie Blade Runner, an adaptation of Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and there's no problem with that, at all it's an iconic, beautiful film with a unique sense of oppressive loneliness and unstable identities.

The novel employs devices borrowed from Patricia Highsmith's books, those ruthless tales of unstable, swappable identity.