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Example sentences for "express himself"

  • Thereupon he forms the idea of a curve composed of a number of short, straight lines, and on this principle is able to express himself in such forms as are shown here.

  • Play, therefore, causes the young child to express himself physically to a degree that tasks set by others can never do, and thus aids him largely in securing control of bodily movements.

  • Did the illustrious individual who is now conferring distinction on this really worn-out chair by occupying it express himself in favour of having the face entirely denuded?

  • No change had been wrought in the dejected feelings of Roland by what the Doctor had said, nor by Eric's utterances; the only effect was to enable him to express himself freely.

  • He said he did not know how rightly to express himself; he had meant it only in a moral sense; but he immediately took back the word moral, for Eric was known to be a highly moral man.

  • A man of such an appearance must have overcome much in himself to be able to express himself in this way.

  • There is no one who would object to the last:--nay, it is impossible that any one who was able to speak thus, should have been willing to express himself otherwise.

  • Therefore, having all his desire, the lover would be lethargic, with no impulse to express himself in song.

  • The scope of love's influence is widened when one reflects upon its efficacy as a prize held up before the poet, spurring him on to express himself.

  • At the end of the eighteenth century, woman's opponent was not afraid to express himself.

  • But in his shyness he did not know how to express himself, fearing, too, to wound the Frenchman.

  • The child was silent a moment, pondering how to express himself.

  • Think of the suffering of this splendid man, who was conscious of possessing colossal scientific knowledge, and yet was absolutely unable to express himself grammatically!

  • If a man is a success anywhere, it ought to be in his personality, in his power to express himself in strong, effective, interesting language.

  • The time will come when an education will enable a youth while upon his feet in public to express himself forcefully, to use the ability he has and summon his knowledge quickly.

  • Now Richard Wagner had no intention of setting the world straight--he wanted to express himself, that was all, and to make enough money so he could be free to come and go as he chose.

  • Clara Schumann knew the excellence of her chosen mate, and through her sympathy made it possible for him to express himself at his highest and best.

  • The man who could so express himself at twenty-eight years of age must have been a right brave and manly man.

  • He learned to express himself well in English, but always spoke with the precision and care that marks the educated foreigner.

  • He had been too solicitous to express himself, to write beautifully, instead of letting the human emotions with which he had to deal show themselves.

  • He would have welcomed a Niagara of importunity and imprecations; he was bursting with impatience to express himself; it seemed as if he would die if he were silent an hour longer under that letter.

  • This anecdote, implying Patrick Henry's ability to express himself in Latin, I give for what it may be worth.

  • A course in it is certain, if the instruction is effective, to leave a student better able to express himself in the normal needs of life.

  • In short, he has consummate ability to express himself in music, and such ability is so rare that it is sufficient alone to make a composer very famous.

  • Besides the technical ability to express himself in music, he has originality of emotion.

  • The family where he stayed could speak no English and but little French, so he was forced from the outset to express himself in a strange tongue and make shift to understand it.

  • I see no reason for supposing that Rousseau ever failed from lack of science to express himself completely.

  • Every artist has a special kind of means with which he works, requiring knowledge and dexterity; but it may be assumed that in addition to his ability to express himself he has something to say.

  • Wordsworth in his own generation was ridiculed; Millet, when he ceased painting nudes for art-dealers' windows and ventured to express himself, faced starvation.

  • The particular medium the artist chooses in which to express himself is incidental to the feeling to be conveyed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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