second self
Example Sentences
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Mr Davies said that Ms Beal introduced a "second self" in the journals, who she called Tulip 22, "who is capable of wholly different and darker conduct than her public persona of committed teacher."
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024
For him, the operation is a means of creating a grief-free second self.
From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022
Sarah Koenig was both the first great star and first great character of a fledgling medium, an amateur PI who became her listeners’ second self.
From Slate • Aug. 11, 2019
Every poet creates a second self and then, watching it thrive, grows to resent it a little.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 8, 2016
The peculiar cross-plays of sentiment were noticed by everybody—the King against his second self, and Gareth against his own brothers.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
