Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The conception that one has of oneself, including an assessment of qualities and personal worth.
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- n. The way a person views themself.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the line should be drawn when candidates rewrite history in order to protect or enhance their own self-image, which isn't based on the truth.
Barbra Streisand: Where Is the Fourth Estate When You Need Them?
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This risk is separate from the chances that a woman, if unfamiliar with heels, may topple sideways and twist an ankle or bruise her self-image, which is an acute injury and happened to me only the one time.
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Caught between a grandiose self-image and a lack of administrative ability, he relied on aggressive rhetoric because he knew no other way to build support, and ended up a hostage not so much of his surroundings as of his own limitations.
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They can even upset countries whose self-image can clash with the truth.
Kati Marton: Facts Are a Dictator's Worst Enemy; and a Journalist's Best Friend
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This is an interesting point that cannot be ignored, and it is especially applicable to individuals with eating disorders or an unhealthy and unrealistic self-image.
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My largesse of literature is key to my self-image, and I can't see any way that e-books could offer even of a fraction of the sociability that paper books do.
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Anyone who has actually gone through the process of writing, rejection, writing, rejection, writing, paid acceptance will tell you that selling yourself short on money to try and brace up a shaky and weak self-image is doomed to failure.
GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap
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If you've got a self-image based only on what other people pay you, then every time you have a failure, a rejection, you've got a massive problem to deal with.
GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap
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This also applies to any change we desire to manifest in our lives, whether it is our self-image, relationships or career.
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And on the other hand, if “me myself” is merely something in our minds, something that could change radically simply by our conceiving of ourselves differently, then how important can this self-image be in our actual lives?
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