Sentence examples for wounded self from inspiring English sources

Like Holiday, Callas used music as a way of expressing her indomitable, wounded self.

Mr. Hussein left home and returned to live with the uncle when he was 8 or 9. "So that would produce in psychoanalytic terms what we call 'the wounded self,' " Dr. Post said.

One glimpse at Peter McKintosh's set — an academic office that shows a riot of books on the side belonging to Butley, with almost nothing on the shelves given over to Mr. Hutson as his sexually errant protégé, Joe — and you get a visual emblem of the dishevelment that our antihero seems to have subsumed deep within his wounded self.

This Ophelia, in turn, is an abject cast-off who is subsequently sent packing, along with Gertrude Clare Higginss) by a sudden and startlingly visceral roar from Hamlet originating from deep within a wounded self that clearly takes injustice more seriously than it does shirts.

In the public reminiscences and private remembrances released by the interview, Jolson emerges as a man emotionally scarred by his mother's death when he was 8, a performer so self-absorbed that he would upstage his brother, a star who hid his wounded self behind his blackface makeup, and a cold, angry, hopeless husband until his later years.

It became a way your ego wounded self attempts to make you feel safe.

Most of the songs on Ms. Etheridge's new album, "Skin" (Island), are about a breakup, and they savor a wounded, self-righteous narcissism.

As dreamy as she can get (her enraptured, sultry "I've Got You Under My Skin" is something you want to curl up against), she never collapses into a pose of wounded self-pity.

It always seems to me that is an important key to his character: thin-skinned, quick to take offence, his wounded self-esteem never restored by subsequent success in life.

We can't all live the glam life of a reality television star in L.A. whenever we get dumped, but we can indulge in a little retail therapy, a gym membership and a mall makeover, just as a shot of adrenaline to our wounded self-esteem.

I confronted grief, unhealed wounds, self doubt and, yes, despair, face to face.