Example sentences of "oneself in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Water , the original substance which God created when he made the world , represents change , and immersing oneself in a natural body of water is the only way of changing one 's spiritual identity . |
| 2 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 3 | It is a large , modern building and it would be easy to imagine oneself in a hospital except for the noise , cheerful bustle and attractive classrooms . |
| 4 | It 's only a thought , but is it possible that the person who threw the carton of orange juice and 50p piece at Morrissey at the Madness ( Madness , not Morrissey ) gig was not some National Front yob but someone who felt that draping oneself in a Union Jack — still , like it or not , a symbol of racism — is itself racist ? |
| 5 | It was all rather uncanny , to find oneself in a private conversation with the Queen . |
| 6 | To be a recipient is normally to put oneself in a subordinate position . |
| 7 | She parallels her experience struggling to gain control of her body on the trapeze with her struggle with the creative process ; ‘ working on the trapeze one is continually putting oneself in a position of overcoming fear . |
| 8 | Now that ‘ minority ’ status has become an effective promotional tool in the visual arts , losing the legal right to label one 's art as ‘ Indian ’ can mean losing the chance to distinguish oneself in an overcrowded market . |
| 9 | Gregory himself thought he had married Rachel when he became a monk ; but being pope was like waking up in the night to find oneself in the arms of Liah . |
| 10 | Role-taking — the mental placing of oneself in the other person 's position — is central to all forms of human communication . |
| 11 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 12 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 13 | Losing oneself in the other when one party is more powerful than the other can only mean the one submitting to the other . |
| 14 | It can also revive memories of childhood tantrums and distress , locking oneself in the lavatory or bathroom and shutting out the adults who came battering at the door . |
| 15 | It is sometimes useful to put oneself in the shoes of another person . |
| 16 | MUR ON TIG WON The disagreeable experience of listening to oneself in the middle of a long speech and neither understanding what one is saying nor enjoying the manner in which it is being said ; a foreign accent ; a lion breaking wind after the evening repast |
| 17 | Marlowe refuses to recognise the fact making a living for oneself in the countryside involves strenuous work and long hours of toil in order to reap the rewards afterwards . |
| 18 | This kind of putting oneself in the place of another and attempting to portray and communicate something through a medium which is unsuitable to it is very essential for an understanding of religion . |