secret self
Example Sentences
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Did the 16-year-old boy who wrote that calendar also have a secret self?
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2018
But gradually I shed my secret self and the shame that came with it.
From The Guardian ● May 6, 2017
To guard one’s secret self, in other words, from slavemasters in the old days, and today from government lackeys, international aid workers, outsiders, reporters, et al.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2017
Photograph: Bernard Gotfryd/Getty Images This burden of fraudulence, of needing to keep some lumbering secret self forever under wraps, was not merely a matter of class anxiety.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2013
Mrs. Pendarrel, in her secret self, was by no means so well satisfied with her daughter's behaviour, as she pretended to her guests.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy
