Sentence examples for was to himself from inspiring English sources

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Manager Joe Girardi was kinder to Burnett than Burnett was to himself.

And he made it clear that the reference was to himself.

He was more precious to me than he was to himself.

Yes, he was ruthless to others as he was to himself and yes, he shamelessly flattered rich aristos, but a poet has to live somehow.

For him, it was as much of a wedding present to his soon-to-be wife as it was to himself.

"The largest harm Kazan did was to himself," Richard Schickel points out in "Elia Kazan: A Biography". Kazan chose his art over his ideology.

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No other figure is ever as real to him as he is to himself.

His escape was to render himself unrecognizable.

At least it was to Zhivago himself.

"The game was to ingratiate himself with the establishment.

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