self-importance

We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.

It is also important to avoid using the pope as part of a marketing strategy.

For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

I don't know why or who's doing it, but it's the legacy…and it's a legacy that is so important to the culture.

But I hope at least to play to him a few times, and what is more important, to hear him play repeatedly.

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

That the inconstancy of such notices, in cases equally important, proves they did not proceed from any such agent.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.