Youth and aspiration indulge in poetry; a mature and masterful mind will often despise it, and prefer toexpress itself laconically in prose.
Language, being social, resists a virgin egotism and forbids it to express itself publicly, no matter how well grounded it may be in transcendental logic and in animal instinct.
The season, in its blind way, is trying to express itself.
These girls are all types of the skating-rink--an institution which is beginning to express itself in American manners.
The Large Head on the Small Body ΒΆ As pointed out before, the larger any organ or system the more will it tend to express itself.
As the inheritance of a fighting ancestor it is the result of millions of years of fighting in prehistoric times, and, like any other over-developed part or organ, it has an intense urge to express itself.
As it is impossible for thought not to manifest itself organically by gesture or language, so it is impossible for religion not to express itself in rites and doctrines.
Great men may be short-lived by accident, but as a rule the over-abounding vitality, which enables a great mind to express itself greatly, also enables the personality with which it is associated to reach longevity.
Palestrina's career furnishes another striking example of the opportunities for genius to express itself provided by this period.
The rule seems to be that ordinarily there are not less than three nor more than seven successive incarnations in one sex, and then the ego begins to express itself through a body of the other sex.
Does it seem strange that the center of consciousness should be able to draw about itself on the higher planes aggregations of matter and finally to express itself on the material plane through the mass of matter we call the body?
To-day it usually happens that the strongest expressed influences brought to bear upon the individual are of a religious kind, with the result that adolescent human nature is most apt to express itself in religious language.
We teach youth to express itself in terms of supernaturalism, and then treat the language and the fact as inseparable.
The childish desire for protection weakens; the more mature desire to protect others begins to express itself.
It would have ceased to represent antiquity or to hand down an ancestral piety: in fine, by its eagerness to express itself as a perfect philosophy, it would have ceased to be a religion.
Religion is not a curb on nature; religion is a help to enable nature to express itself.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "express itself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
