Examples of self

• She's not her customary cheerful self today.

• The Minister was her usual evasive self, skilfully dodging reporters' questions about her possible resignation.

• He seemed ill at ease and not his usual self.

• It was a long time after the accident before he seemed like his former self.

• He wasn't his usual ebullient self.

• Our inner selves are always barricaded behind codes of language.

• Every item in the world, from stars to selves, is simply part of a divine mind, the thinking of which constitutes all of reality.

• Narratives are seen, then, both as rhetorical ploys (disguising genuine selves) and as the very thing that guarantees our ability to have selves.

• The duality is between the public and private selves of the candidates.

• We interpreted this joining of multiple selves as an instance of what one might call a ' shared world ' persona.

• More recently, however, identity has been seen as an ongoing and performative process in which individuals draw on diverse resources to construct selves.

• Through the elaborate construction of selves in particular relations with one another, the way was prepared for psychologists to claim authority to define this reality.

• In both these examples my future selves are contingent, which means that only the past and present preferences should rule.

• Instead, each of the person's contingent selves should have a say.

• Such facts comprise an important part of who they are, their natures or selves.

• In search of new selves : accommodating to widowhood.

• The mind was the 'zone of engagement' for the dynamics of attachment and detachment which articulated the relations of courtly selves.

• Alternatively, there may be a "discordant splitting" if one's different selves are experienced as contradictory.

• If it is, then it is hard to see why the state should have any concern for older selves.

• Ethics are the preconditions for society, which is, in turn, the precondition for the creation of selves.