Sentence examples for were herself from inspiring English sources
The only survivors were herself and her younger sister.
It feels forced -- as if the author, far from showing things as they are, were herself meting out punishment.
It is a refusal that Garner returns to with mounting frustration; her book takes on a curiously blocked, repetitive, almost victimized quality, as if she were herself responding to a violation.
Another sequence, in which a predatory husband comes to a clinic to demand the release of his wife, whom he has grievously injured, takes place behind panes of frosted glass, as if Bani-Etemad were herself concealing the shame of his deeds.
Other women artists could profitably be represented here, but are signally absent: for instance, the American Ellen Day Hale, whose Self Portrait (1885) reveals an almost ungendered individual, whose steady gaze is not, like Helleu's Parisienne, coquettish, but rather defiant, as if Day Hale were herself Baudelaire's flâneur, rather than the object of his attentions.
Among the handful of aides with personal BlackBerrys or ones paid for by Mr. Spitzer's campaign account, said spokeswoman Christine Anderson, were herself; Richard Baum, the secretary to the governor; David Nocenti, the governor's counsel; and Darren Dopp, the governor's communications director, who has since been suspended for his role in the effort.
(Wendy was herself Episcopalian).
She was just being herself.
