selfhood

Example Sentences

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For most adults, reading is a private endeavor, intrinsic to selfhood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

In the face of so much frenzied curation and compulsory personal branding, how might a modern human maintain some iota of unshared selfhood, a soupçon of Greta Garbo mystique?

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024

And if she did slip in that fraught moment, the whole edifice of her selfhood, her life’s grand project, might well collapse.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2024

But the players also hinted at something less tangible, some swirl of selfhood and ritualism and sense memory, that week after week lured them back to the ice.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2023

We catch this young girl at the dawn of her selfhood.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan