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What do people use self to talk about?
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What words refer to being satisfied with yourself?
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What words refer to thinking you are more important than you really are?
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What words describe someone who is proud?
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What words refer to the quality of being proud?
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What words refer to the immaterial part of a person?
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What words describe someone who is humble?
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What words describe someone who is self-controlled?
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What words refer to the quality of being self-controlled?
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What pronouns express reflexive reference?
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What derivational affixes are there?
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What words refer to the feeling of self-esteem?
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What words describe a person who does things without other people's help?
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What words describe someone who is selfish?
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What words refer to being selfish?
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What words describe a person who does not control himself?
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What words refer to a lack of self-control?
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What words refer to controlling your feelings?
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What words describe someone who is only interested in enjoying themselves?
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What words describe someone who feels confident?
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What words refer to the feeling of sadness?
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What words refer to setting oneself apart from others and not relating to them?
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What words refer to doing something alone?
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What words describe someone who is selfless?
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What words describe a country that is independent?
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What words refer to defending yourself from attack?
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How do I use self in a sentence?
Simple sentences
You take my self control.
Tom killed Mary in self-defense.
Tom claims he shot Mary in self-defense.
Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.
Mr Ford is what is called a self-made man.
That girl is so beautiful that she attracts even the most self-possessed men.
The man pleaded self-defence.
I hold this as self-evident.
He is a self-oriented person.
Self-help is the best help.
The cafeteria was self-service.
He is what we call a self-made man.
He is what is called a self-made man.
He prided himself on his self-control.
President Lincoln was what we call a self-made man.
Don't be so self-assertive.
Mr Johnson is self-employed and is in the business of repairing furniture.
It's self-evident.
His grandfather is what is called a self-made man.
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A self-confident one-party state.
Bishop Donahue said it's because I have no self-esteem and desperately want to fit in with by my peers.
Well, if you don't, you need to join me for my week long marathon where I'm gonna teach you how to identify the symptoms, such as shortness of breath. heart palpitations, the urge to self-medicate with drugs and booze.
Yep. You're looking at 28 cubic feet of self-regulated, vacuum-sealed cold.
Oh, I'm sorry to interrupt your downward spiral, - you self-loathing, self-pitying.
For you, I rise to the occasion, riding you with self-flagellation.
Were you self-taught, Nurse Crane?
We look at the damage, not with anger or self-hate, but locate it.
A self-confessed dog lover.
I was being my true self. and my mom was being. hers.
Horatio Alger and self achievement in the new century.
I admit he's a great physician, but self-imposed exile is not a retention strategy!
Your journey toward your best self starts now.
My sister struggles with depression and she always describes it as a veil. something that gets between her real self and the world.
Humankind has given up on its evolutionary progress. Doing so ensures its self-destruction.
But to guard timid heart I behaved haughtily, arrogant and gruffly, I talked about the sacrifice I would make for her more evil than self-mutilation and death.
You are a man and totally without any self-confidence.
Too bitterly branded for life you became by fate broken-winged, inhibited, self-conscious.
The pious gave themselves up to many a regrettable self-punishment.
Through the power of imagination, with a normal ring, Jean has gained his self confidence. Look how he has changed.
On your spirit of self-sacrifice and your proven valour depend many lives.
Some people, you can't buy their self-respect.
Honor, self-respect, everything gone.
When you meet lady dogs on the street that are not dachshunds. you must exercise some self-control.
He's a shell of his former self, which nobody can deny.
Because I love you. You should have more self-control.
They got one day of detention because they said it was self-defense.
How do you break a kid's arm in self-defense?
The security of the Jeju forum will be tight. There is an uproar of news circulating among the foreign media saying that John Mayer is finally going to reveal his true self.
It simply is an act of self deception to put that kind of religious interpretation on out of thought.
Self portrait again?
You wanted to be loved for your own sweet self.
This we call his good self.
Why don't you stay at home and send your other self to the lecture?
Why aren't you frank enough to admit that other indecent self in you?
News and current affairs
Citizens, it was thought, had to become more self-reliant; government welfare programs were making everyone soft and dependent.
He was, in the true sense of the word, a self-made man, whose pluck, ambition, drive and inner belief in his destiny carried him to the pinnacle of his achievements.
The CAP's original aim was to provide a secure source of food for the six original member states of the Union, which were importers of food and sought a degree of self-sufficiency.
As a species, human beings have a major self-control problem.
From a child's perspective, it wasn't self-evident that losing was a good thing.
To be viable, a state needed to be large enough to defend itself and to constitute a relatively self-contained economic market.
The latest Eurostat figures on the evolution of the price index for self-produced goods (GDP deflator) show no tendency whatsoever in the crisis-stricken countries towards real devaluation.
The deeper the downturn, the more powerful the snapback, and the greater the cumulative forces of self-sustaining revival.
If so, then a key condition must be the self-respect that comes from working things out for ourselves, individually and collectively.
This self-respect is fostered by organizations and institutions that can likewise stand on their own feet, building on the best of their own cultural traditions.
Pride, dignity, and self-confidence do not figure in economic theory: they cannot be measured.
Increasing risk aversion is leading economic agents to adopt a wait-and-see stance that makes the slowdown partly self-fulfilling.
Members accept the obligation not to use force except in self-defense or unless it is authorized by the Security Council.
For the last three years, the consensus has been that the US economy was on the verge of a robust and self-sustaining recovery that would restore above-potential growth.
It would be self-defeating, or worse, to try to promote morality through brutal coercion.
Is Burma, like South Africa under de Klerk, truly poised to emerge from a half-century of self-imposed isolation?
In India, for example, feminists articulated to me a vision of women's equality that was family-centered rather than self-centered, and that valued service to community rather than personal gratification.
Nor does it seem likely to emulate the splintered, individualized, solitary society - and the commodified sexual revolution - that Western, self-based feminism reflects.
As a result, any country formulating strategies to counter the destructive forces of globalization should give overriding priority to a self-centred economic development strategy, preferably within a regional framework.
President Chirac's self-appointed role as an expert in diplomatic good behavior cannot be taken seriously, even by those of us who know (and love) France.
To be sure, Bush reinforced both trends, but their real causes lie in objective historical factors, namely America's being the sole world power since 1989 and Europe's self-inflicted weakness.
Nevertheless, investors around the world currently fear such a scenario, and this may create a self-fulfilling prophesy, because it helps to drive down the dollar, boost export demand, and make US imports more expensive.
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