68 examples of self-sufficiency in sentences

But the most successful teachers and leaders are those who contrive to wound their sense of intellectual self-sufficiency least, and to offer them the strong food of dogmatic assertion sugared over and sparkling with the show of wit and reason.

But it is a very dangerous doctrine when it becomes the creed of a stupid people, for it flatters their self-sufficiency, and distracts their attention from the difficult, subtle, frail, and wavering conditions of human power.

" Isfendiyár felt so indignant and irritated by this apparent boasting and self-sufficiency of Rustem, that his first impulse was to cast a dagger at him; but he kept down his wrath, and satisfied himself with giving him a scornful glance, and telling him to take a seat on his left hand.

The illusion of absolute self-sufficiency, which he had built up through the years for the sake of imposing upon his sons and Bull Hunter, was now destroyed.

Now they spoke in a lightsome tone of self-sufficiency.

No one, it is hoped, will suppose that by what is here said I countenance the notion which is held by some authorsa notion implying either arrogant self-sufficiency or mercenary servilitythat to succeed, a man should write down to the public.

Suddenly it seemed that what he had mistaken for self-sufficiency had been in reality loneliness.

Vanity N. vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self- complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation^, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre

It might be summarised in the admonitions: abolish over-centralisation; give proper scope to individual capacity and initiative; avoid professional self-sufficiency.

The strongest impulsethe love of woman's societyhas little or no effect; it is the sexless condition of old age which lays the foundation of a certain self-sufficiency, and that gradually absorbs all desire for others' company.

] THE TURKEY Insufferable self-sufficiency!

Into the vacant place dropped the stranger, stretching out his feet, throwing his head back against the wall, and half closing his eyes with the drunkard's own leer of self-sufficiency.

However thick-skinned a man may be, and protected over all by the oes triplex of self-sufficiency, he cannot escape being wounded by furious and incessant attacks.

The characteristic attitude of these woodsmen was of intolerance for restraint, of complete self-sufficiency.

If children would realize their weakness and foolishness more in these days, they would develop into better men and women, but self-sufficiency and self-conceit are signs of the times!"

Hers was a brave soul, not easily daunted or discouraged, better worthy of this life which was teaching its stoicism, charity and self-abnegation than of that other life which denied by self-sufficiency their very existencea gallant spirit which for once soared free of the worldly, venal and time-serving.

I told Concini that he had no time to lose, but with his habitual self-sufficiency he declared repeatedly that the King became more courteous to him every day.

MATTERN, JOHANNES. Geopolitik: doctrine of national self-sufficiency and empire.

Then he came to himself with a quick smile, which she recognised as characteristic of all that disturbed her about this mana smile in which there was humour, a little malice and self-sufficiency andmany, many things she did not try to analyse.

The borderers are usually as suspicious as they are independent, and their self-sufficiency and self-reliance often degenerate into mere lawlessness and defiance of all restraint.

Luther was the first moralist who broke with any effectiveness through the crust of all this naturalistic self-sufficiency, thinking (and possibly he was right) that Saint Paul had done it already.

Complete Definiteness, on the other hand, throws itself with a bold leap out of the blissful dream of the infinite will into the limits of the finite deed, and by self-refinement ever increases in magnanimous self-restraint and beautiful self-sufficiency.

City populations abandon self-sufficiency and adopt the principles of expansion, occupation and utilization of foreign territory and exploitation of resources and manpower, at home and abroad.

B BAADER, FRANZ XAVIER VON, a German philosopher, born at Münich; was patronised by the king of Bavaria, and became professor in Münich, who, revolting alike from the materialism of Hume, which he studied in England, and the transcendentalism of Kant, with its self-sufficiency of the reason, fell back upon the mysticism of Jacob Boehme, and taught in 16 vols.

" We could not have had a better specimen of the cool self-sufficiency of these young domestics of the Scottish type than the following:I heard of a boy making a very cool and determined exit from the house into which he had very lately been introduced.

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