How to Use selfhood in a Sentence
selfhood
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There are many ways to reach the truth of non-selfhood.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 7 Apr. 2018
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Not least, the idea of the soul is bound up with our search for identity or selfhood.
—TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
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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
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Diana’s fragile selfhood, and the happiness of her two sons, is at stake.
—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2022
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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
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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
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There had never been enough of them to allow this luxury of blatant selfhood.
—Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 27 June 2019
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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
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The anthemic, but calm, song details feelings of loss of selfhood and security.
—Izzy Colón, SPIN, 8 Feb. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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These duplicities have come to light in the last few years, complicating searches and feelings of selfhood.
—Seyward Darby, Longreads, 8 Sep. 2022
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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
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The clown’s final exclamation in the poem reclaims a sought-after selfhood.
—Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 24 July 2019
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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
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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
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Still, questions of selfhood extend beyond Kim and her storylines.
—Vogue, 12 May 2022
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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
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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
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Her characters longedto escape the drudgery of selfhood and convention.
—New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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In her second novel, the author uses a familiar genre to explore startling visions of selfhood.
—Sarah Resnick, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
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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
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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
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Or, in my case: the fabulous anti-heroine of my own journey into Carrie’s idiosyncratic selfhood.
—Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 5 June 2018
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And, if our old ideas about human selfhood fade into history, what happens to the ideas of human dignity and human rights that traditionally go with them?
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
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Both require uncomfortable walks through selfhood, life and choices.
—Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
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