How to Use selfhood in a Sentence

selfhood

noun

• There are many ways to reach the truth of non-selfhood.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 7 Apr. 2018
• Not least, the idea of the soul is bound up with our search for identity or selfhood.
  — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
• Hence the tradition of grit as glue in rap songs — this urge to state, with style and coarse grace, your selfhood to the world.
  — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
• Diana’s fragile selfhood, and the happiness of her two sons, is at stake.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2022
• But treat your hair with love, and develop and blossom in your own sense of selfhood; that's the most important journey.
  — Chelsea Hall, Marie Claire, 28 Oct. 2020
• South Asian, so neither of us can offer a firsthand model of Black selfhood to our children.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• There had never been enough of them to allow this luxury of blatant selfhood.
  — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 27 June 2019
• In most novels domestics serve only to open and close doors, make meals or assist with the toilette of those who have attained true selfhood.
  — Chandrahas Choudhury, WSJ, 12 May 2017
• The anthemic, but calm, song details feelings of loss of selfhood and security.
  — Izzy Colón, SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022
• The Son is interested in what Nicholas’s father misses, overlooks and denies — but the movie risks doing the same, by giving Nicholas such a threadbare selfhood in the first place.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2023
• Rooting out the cause took years of detective work—and forced his family to confront the trickiest questions of selfhood.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The statement of names is also a reaffirmation of selfhood – that women can and should have the right to be individuals.
  — refinery29.com, 13 June 2018
• These duplicities have come to light in the last few years, complicating searches and feelings of selfhood.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2022
• Freiman finds less to salvage in Rand’s life or work, but the novel is rightly skeptical of the wellness industry’s promises to subdue the demands of selfhood.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• The clown’s final exclamation in the poem reclaims a sought-after selfhood.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 24 July 2019
• The film also might have been enriched by further exploring what being with Haider means for Biba, who is on a similar search for selfhood.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2022
• The transition from middle to high school, often a superlatively fraught time in any kid's life, was marked by a complete shattering of Nogueira's selfhood.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 3 Oct. 2022
• Still, questions of selfhood extend beyond Kim and her storylines.
  — Vogue, 12 May 2022
• For Buddhists, the clear light of reality is visible only to those who abandon the illusion of selfhood.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• Its political identity, its need to hold on to the past, to fight for its selfhood and future: These things were both motivating and restrictive.
  — New York Times, 11 Nov. 2021
• Her characters longedto escape the drudgery of selfhood and convention.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
• This love has nothing to do with the masterful assertion of selfhood that Beauvoir attributes to her relationship with Sartre.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• And for a time, during the late ’90s and aughts as the canvas of the city called for new hues of possibility, Pro Clubs suggested an architecture for selfhood for many young Angelenos.
  — Jason Parham, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
• Rife with self-mockery, his work dares to register the brilliant, kaleidoscopic puzzle of selfhood.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
• The album is a statement of selfhood summed up by its cover, which pictures McRae in the classically risqué pop star drag of a black tank top and briefs, but paired with a touch of knowing humor in the form of knee-high ice hockey goalie pads.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2023
• But the players also hinted at something less tangible, some swirl of selfhood and ritualism and sense memory, that week after week lured them back to the ice.
  — Andrew Keh Bryan Meltz, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• In her second novel, the author uses a familiar genre to explore startling visions of selfhood.
  — Sarah Resnick, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• If Reputation was penned in the grey area between self-defense and self-acceptance, and Lover in the rainbow haze of being adored, evermore evokes the fluid nature of selfhood itself.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 28 Oct. 2022
• But, if the source of his confidence is mysterious, its destination is clear: Hayes’s audacious claims to space and selfhood are everywhere in hip-hop.
  — Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2019
• Or, in my case: the fabulous anti-heroine of my own journey into Carrie’s idiosyncratic selfhood.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 5 June 2018

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024