Sentence examples for we permitted ourselves from inspiring English sources
In McFarland, we permitted ourselves to think that our modern snake-oil salesmen are also victims of a larger culture.
We have been fortunate to live through a successful system where we permitted ourselves to believe that there was a trusted and valuable means of exchange and store of value called money.
In Holmes, we permit ourselves to ogle pure evil.
So if I am right that we are storytelling creatures, and as long as we permit ourselves to be quiet for a while now and then, the eternal narrative will continue.
We will still do it though because it's all we know, and engender little forgiveness if we permit ourselves to occasionally ask, "why am I doing this?" The Grade Cricketer's autobiography, imaginatively titled 'The Grade Cricketer', was released to the Australian market in late-2015 to coincide with the worst home Test series in history.
In recent work, John Manchak (2009) has argued that this example is even stronger than it appears, as underdetermination persists even if we permit ourselves the assumption that all physical laws we determine locally apply throughout the universe as a whole.
But he first articulated much of his thinking in his original 2001 version of Fooled by Randomness, an equally entertaining, and ostentatiously obnoxious, romp through the ways in which we permit ourselves to be deceived by chance.
So how do we permit ourselves to be vulnerable, and open up to the uncertainty risk evokes?
When we lose focus on the quality of our performance within stretches of time, we permit ourselves to indulge baser instincts - to become distracted, multitask, and coast without intention.
Or how about when we permit ourselves to send a solitary text only to be racked by regret immediately thereafter that we didn't play a little harder to get and make them work a little bit more--and then obsessively await their response anyway.
We have permitted ourselves to indulge in the exaggerated privileges of victimhood too long and too often.
