Sentence examples for working ourselves from inspiring English sources

But working ourselves into a state of indignation about a second Bush administration driven by militant illogic gets us nowhere.

That episode is also, as I learned in "Bossypants," an illustration of the pitfalls of seeing the world only through the lens of gender, even for those of us who regularly enjoy working ourselves into a self-righteous feminist lather.

"Many of us are poor, many of us are working ourselves into early graves," the writer Evette Dionne, referring to black women, said in an interview with Bitch magazine last year.

"I flew in from Buffalo this morning and when you said that we are working ourselves to death, I thought, 'That is my life!'" Another tells her how she's so overstretched that "I went to work last week and didn't realise until I got there that I had forgotten to put on my skirt!

But it does help explain why the modern "work ethic" – according to which we are all supposed to be in a brutal fight to the finish with every other worker, working ourselves to death to produce every last bit of income stream – simply doesn't make sense of people's experiences.

"If you're working yourselves upwards in taxes and deficits, we're working ourselves downwards," says Borg. (FORBES recently interviewed him in Berlin, where he had delivered a speech).

We worked ourselves into the ground".

We work ourselves into a fever pitch of indignation.

We did work ourselves up; there was some touching and fumbling.

As Jock Covey, Kouchner's American deputy puts it, "Everything we do here is to work ourselves out of a job".

But this meant that almost our entire US team, including myself, would willingly work ourselves out of our jobs.