self-directing
Example Sentences
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Thespian self-directing tends toward the blustery, for reasons that are easy to understand.
From Slate • Jan. 20, 2012
Later disseminating becomes irrelevant considering rapidity of technological change.What is now needed is classroom activity designed to enhance and increase student self-directing consciousness.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2010
Instead of performing a single tedious task like attaching windshield wipers as cars whiz past on a long assembly line, employees would work together in self-directing teams of six to 15 people.
From Time Magazine Archive
Armed with the talisman of this knowledge, he boldly enters the field of causation and thenceforward becomes a self-directing factor in his own evolution.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.
Above all men it is the poet who is a self-directing agent, whose faculties receive their principal impulse from within, and who stamps his own genius on every object of his mental activity.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor
