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Example sentences for "express themselves"

  • We know that love and hate disappear in the distance, and that love long dead and a long-deferred hatred tend to express themselves as a feeling of mildness and forgiveness which is pretty much the same in spite of its diverse sources.

  • There are often well disposed natures who, after troubles, express themselves in the manner described.

  • The forms in which artists can express themselves are infinite, and their desire to express themselves keeps up a constant change and reaction in artistic form.

  • They had the one idea in mind, to express themselves in terms of themselves, and they were singularly successful in this despite the various difficulties of circumstance and of temper that attended them.

  • The truth is that painters must sooner or later learn to express themselves in terms of pure language, they must learn that creation is the thing most expected of them, and, if possible, invention as well.

  • Only when that stage is past do they really and with full consciousness seek to express themselves, and pay some attention to the self-expression of others.

  • What can be done for the girls to give them first more independence in their language and then more power to express themselves?

  • Virtue of the Loadstone, or perhaps the Pressure of the Atmosphere: Their Language is peculiar to themselves, and they scorn to express themselves on the meanest Trifle with Words that are not of a Latin Derivation.

  • The want of it is very visible in many learned Persons, who, while they are admiring the Styles of Demosthenes or Cicero, want Phrases to express themselves on the most common Occasions.

  • There the more important purposes are to train pupils to acquire knowledge by thinking for themselves, and to express themselves, both of which are well-nigh impossible if the purely lecture method is followed.

  • The continuous answer should be cultivated much more than it is, as a means of training pupils to organize their information and to express themselves in clear and connected discourse.

  • Pupils can frequently be required to express themselves by means of manual activity.

  • Almost always after watching the English people express themselves or straining to express themselves in the House of Commons, I try Oxford Street.

  • Of these, only thirteen declared themselves outright for woman suffrage; four believed that women should vote upon property and school questions; while nine declined to express themselves.

  • Nor did he think it very becoming or dignified in gentlemen in that House so to express themselves as to excite frequent risibility; nor was it very honorable to that Assembly.

  • If it were clearly intended to convey an insult upon our Executive, (and there could be no doubt of it,) even the mover of the amendment could not think it unbecoming in that House to express themselves in the words of the Address.

  • Sides of this distinctive mediaeval development and temper express themselves in Francis--are Francis verily.

  • One need not recount how the disputes of the Athanasian time regarding the nature of Christ came to express themselves in curses; nor how the Christian sword began its slaughter of heretic and heathen.

  • Among the laity the gap between the ideal and the actual may best be observed in the warrior class whose ideals accorded with the feudal situation and tended to express themselves in chivalry.

  • Accustomed (as we shall presently see) to express themselves in various ways, the children cannot entertain kindly feelings without seeking some vent for them.

  • But I find a certain amount of talk going on which assumes that some people are of the homosexual type, and that it is natural and right for them to express themselves in this way.

  • They very often have far too little opportunity for invigorating games, and they do not know how to express themselves, though vital energies are vibrant within them.

  • Some happy people can themselves make music, and so express themselves.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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