selfhood
Example Sentences
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Huntsinger hopes audiences won’t overlook Arthur Harari’s “The Unknown,” an uncanny body-swapping drama starring Léa Seydoux that uses its genre premise to explore questions of identity and selfhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
In Mr. Persico’s account, the Protestant Reformation completed the project that Genesis began, entrenching individual autonomy and selfhood in Western culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
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
We catch this young girl at the dawn of her selfhood.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
