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"Oh, yes, " I replied, for at last I had got something from her that revealed her self-image.
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The possession, or not, of aircraft carriers more than any other weapon says a lot about a country's self-image.
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He also shows how guilt for a dishonest act is rationalized away so that a pure self-image emerges.
Yet, as Mr Bellos shows, football is even more important to Brazil's self-image.
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In short, their self-image is that he is an illegal immigrant from Oaxaca.
With little institutional support in the government, Zhu seems to feed on his own esteemed self-image to keep himself going.
Republicans cannot get out of their death spiral unless they stage an intervention into the very roots of their self-image.
And that continued to be part of his self-image as he pursued his passion into a career as a news photographer.
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But part of the self-image of the junta in power until last year was as the guarantor of the country's integrity.
China's self-image as a responsible great power was also on show, however, with a large new hospital ship, useful for humanitarian missions.
She said action should be taken to improve women's self-image, and suggested images in women's magazines should not be looked on as normal.
We also try to preserve a positive self-image and we go to great lengths to get others to perceive us positively as well.
In an interview with Staff Writer Ajay Singh, India's de facto deputy prime minister says the tests have boosted the self-image of Indians worldwide.
We start blaming others at an early age, usually to escape parental anger and punishment, but also to preserve our own self-esteem and self-image.
Our self-knowledge is blinded, colored by our wishes, fears and unconscious motives, the greatest of which is the need to maintain a high self-image.
It is this haunting uncertainty that corrodes the remnants of Willy's sanity as his career, dreams and very self-image turn to dust before him.
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Some of the differences may be due to self-image and confidence.
In May, an Italian judge committed her for trial on charges of offending Islam, but this has served only to reinforce her self-image as a wronged Cassandra.
" 'Punching-above-our-weight' is a nice self-image for small countries, but it is much less important in world politics than being the heavyweights, " said NYU law professor Benedict Kingsbury.
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By the time the heel came back into fashion, in the mid-19th Century, photography was transforming the way that fashions - and the female self-image - were constructed.
Contrary to their self-image of being superbly able to mold citizens into first-rate soldiers, the British were astonishingly slower than the Germans at learning how to prevail in trench warfare.
Miners working the harsh terrain of the Atacama are part of the national self-image in a country that thinks of itself as having snatched prosperity from adversity, whether earthquakes or mining accidents.
We have a rose-colored view of who we are and what we do, and we aim to behave in ways that are consistent with our self-image as capable, competent, helpful, and honest individuals.
On nearly every issue, the president and others from his administration (not to mention the media) lecture us on the need to be sensitive to the feelings and self-image of the Muslim world.
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