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
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
In their simplest form, they show us an underdog empowered to effect change by embracing a secret self.
From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013
It appeared as though "mass psychoanalysis" was eroding the heart's privacy, that secret self shown to be just another carbon-copy of your neighbour's secrets.
From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2012
She even admitted to her secret self that in time to come—far, far-off time to come,—she would like to become like Aunt Maria in this respect and cast aside her own impetuous, storm-tossed ways.
From A College Girl by Groome, William H. C.
