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How to use selves in a sentence

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Hence, monastics are continuously involved in ascesis in order to rid their selves of the heavy burden of self-idolization and self-love.
Now I gently introduce others to their intuition and often their true selves.
To exist simultaneously as two selves, two persons, may have been Lowell's greatest wish.
It's complicated stuff, and invariably lets us down by revealing our true selves, often at the most crucial of times.
And so is the intrapersonal, insofar as we are dialoguing with our selves all the time.
Modernity has trained us to not just to distinguish inward from outward actions, but to dichotomize our inner and our outer selves.
I look at myself in the mirror, and while this is not a bad self as far as selves go, it isn't who I know I'm supposed to be.
In many cultures people have multiple souls or selves that migrate from one body to another.
When we allow people to know the real us we risk rejection and for many we would rather paint our true selves than face heartbreak.
The most important thing reading does for us, she concludes, is to give us a sense of our true selves, to reclaim us from the world.
Too often in the wider sphere they act like troubled ghosts of their true selves.
People scarred by violence are often shells of their former selves, hollowed-out structures that move emptily through the world.
Your friendship will be way more intriguing if you and your bud get in touch with your true inner selves.
Our true selves are out there in the marketplace, ready to wear, see, listen, and eat.
That's where things fell apart, and they didn't really show their true selves.
In this framework, I will argue that an enunciative split is central to the production of both Bugul's and Molloy's exilic selves.
By the time it was dusk, we had dragged our dog-tired selves back to our chalet, where we had called in pizza.
We disperse ourselves into our many social roles, and as a consequence, we are not linked to our true selves.
There are times when others can hold up the mirror and show us our true selves.
Now she has retuned to save us from our fat selves and our love of supersized fries.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But under torment of insomnia the many selves of the mind may abandon the congress of reason and start a rat-race.
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Of the future, of the actual present, save of their two selves, they scarcely spoke.
Some people can only learn from that sort of experience which comes home to their own dear selves.
Briefly stated, my thesis is that we sleep in order to dream and to be for a number of hours our simpler and unrepressed selves.
O that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves!
After this they fell to great licenciousnes, and led a dissolute life, powering out them selves into all profanenes.
Besides our three selves, there wasn't an Englishman in corunna.
The baser selves of man were instincts that yearned for disorder.
The plural word selves, a substantival, and not an adjectival form.
Would not that argue great lack of understanding in our two selves?
I see the power and potential of poetry residing in that realm, in the ways a poem may touch our emotionally numbed selves and thus inspirit, inspire, and even transform us.
Why then should we worry about its detachment from our psychical selves?
In this jangle of causes and effects what had become of their true selves?
We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement.
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