Example sentences of "identify [pn reflx] with [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Wolf identified himself with the existing élite of Anglo-Jewry in regarding Jewish emancipation in England as a success story , and expecting that the growth of tolerance would enable Jews elsewhere to live both within their ancestral religion and culture , and as full citizens of their respective countries .
2 Tarvaras was a quarantine world , cut off from contact with the rest of the universe by orbiting weapons platforms which were programmed to destroy any craft which did not identify itself with the appropriate recognition codes , and it had seemed unlikely that the civilian survey crew would be tempted to break the stringent regulations which applied to the situation .
3 ‘ Moreover , this class or fraction in charge of the state may or may not identify itself with the ruling class or fraction in the political scene ’ ( Poulantzas 1973 , p. 335 ) .
4 A people may or may not identify itself with the dominant culture .
5 By contrast , the failure to introduce new benefits , payments or services is a much blunter grievance : political opponents have only something hypothetical to discuss ; individual electors do not easily identify themselves with the deprived .
6 Yet there is also a less determinate area , in which artists devoted themselves to religious art not only , and sometimes not primarily , because this was the willed commission of their Immediate patron , but because they could identify themselves with the religious purpose of which the immediate social organization was the available manifest form .
7 That individuals prosecuted for sodomy did not necessarily identify themselves with the demonized sodomite of official discourse also lends credence to Foucault 's distinction between sodomy as a kind of behaviour , and homosexuality as a modern identity .
8 Charlie should have known the shysters when he saw them — but too often he was willing to identify himself with the craw-thumping brigade , allowing them to subvert his better , progressive instincts .
9 The lyric poet ( in general ) is a composer first and foremost and , as such , a Dionysiac artist who surrenders his egoistic subjectivity to identify himself with the true metaphysical reality and reflect it in music .
10 Crushed ambitions and women 's lib feelings had rallied to the author 's right to identify herself with a polished ship .
11 Since people 's self-assessments tend to reflect the way they wish they spoke , Trudgill took it that women wished to identify themselves with a higher social class , and thus that their status aspirations were higher than men 's ( with male informants he found the opposite tendency , which will be discussed later on ) .
12 For the most part these arose from the almost heedless manner in which Christians were prepared to identify themselves with the dominant values of secular Roman society .
13 Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ?
14 We should now be in a position to answer Herbert Schniedau 's question : ‘ Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters … write a fair-minded book about Pound ? ’
15 In the second case one identifies oneself with the worst aspects of the society .
16 It is small wonder that Darwin thought twice about threatening his own privileged position by identifying himself with a new twist on this old theme .
17 His attitude was , however , coloured by a highly literary romanticism , and despite his efforts at identifying himself with a primitive culture , his outlook naturally remained that of a sophisticated European ; he borrowed freely from primitive sources but reinterpreted them to suit his own decorative and symbolic purposes .
18 But whereas the long version refers only to the words in Lamentations 1:12 ( O all ye that pass by the way , attend , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow ) , the short version incorporates all the references to focus more sharply on the organic relationship between man and Christ whose natural growth is blasted by sin : And only in the short version does the meditator acknowledge this by identifying himself with the penitent thief pleading for pardon to be extended to him , and confessing his failure to acknowledge Christ as the true source of his integrity : In both versions the meditator admits that the very ability to recognise the life-giving power in Christ is a sign that he in fact has the love of God even if he does not feel it : And in both , as the meditator sees his betrayal and sense of deprivation borne by Christ in His words : " My god , my dere god , why hastow al forsakyn me … ( 89. cf.102 ) he imagines himself lying down among the bones of dead men on mount Calvary , taking the foot of the Cross in his arms , the stench of death in his nostrils .
19 The Observer commented that Ramsey destroyed his chances of succeeding Fisher as archbishop by so openly identifying himself with the extreme high church party .
20 identified themselves with the dying god , in order to dedicate themselves to the goddess .
21 team : high performance manager who achieves high work accomplishment through ‘ leading ’ committed people who identify themselves with the organisational aims .
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