As a child he felt so self-conscious he was afraid to go to a public swimming pool in case other people stared at him.
"He just doesn't have the self-belief, the self-confidence that he obviously had, the Tiger of old -- simple as that, " the Englishman said.
Unfortunately for him, much of the pathos he was trying to convey was undone by his occasional flashes of animosity and resentment, plus glimpses of the monumental self-pity he seemed unable to suppress.
When he had seen her in the center of the road he had thought for an instant she was a ghost, and there was a ghostly detached quality in the way she moved, her lips crimped in that twist of self-criticism he had noticed in the car, when she had slid in beside him.
Second, he showed the strength of his self-belief when he, almost alone, insisted the party would win the 1970 election, which it did.
Defense attorney Tony Abbatangelo later told the judge he believed Drayton may have been acting in self-defense when he allegedly grabbed the butcher knife, a steak knife and a pizza cutter during the scuffle.
He credits superior preparation--he was often self-taught--for his gains.
He has also said he is self-conscious about the way he speaks, having been teased as a child about the dialect he grew up using in Georgia, and developed the habit of not asking questions at college and law school.
Well he was a relatively senior businessman in his earlier incarnation (that said, he self-deprecatingly and amusingly pointed out that he was the only innumerate treasurer of one of the UK's biggest companies, and his employer, Enterprise Oil, paid someone to check all his numbers).
Mr Blair shifted uneasily in his seat - was it that he was already anticipating charges that he had offered a high profile endorsement for the product, or simply that as a self-confessed technophobe he hadn't a clue what was going on?
If George Allen, who had a gigantic lead three months ago going into this race - had he not self-destructed, I think George Allen would be still in the Senate.
"It's in our self-interest to forget our self-interest, " he says.
In addition, he allegedly failed to pay Social Security and self-employment taxes when he worked for the International Monetary Fund.
His motives are partly self-serving: he needs social credentials in a state that leans leftwards.
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During the trial, Arias claimed she killed Alexander in self-defense after he attacked her.
During the trial, she claimed she killed him in self-defense after he attacked her.
Guards have not been given shoot-on-sight orders, but are allowed to fire in self-defense, he added.
In a city of dissembling self-promoters, he works hard every day for the common good.
Enlightened self-interest, he believes, should help in making people want to make his ideas work.
Self-made, he spent his childhood in an orphanage and his early working years on a factory floor.
Passionate and self-taught, he left behind a career in law to follow his dream of becoming a filmmaker.
Because Chris Ertl is self-employed, he has to buy insurance on his own, from a for-profit insurance company.
Entirely self-made, he spent his childhood in an orphanage and his early working years on a factory floor.
His Aron, seeking isolation, smiles in self-recognition: he knows that he has nailed himself to his own peculiar cross.
As a self-employed person he only gets paid for jobs that he does.
But Murray is so quiet and self-contained that he seems to want nothing.
And why do you assume every player is so self-centered that he would not consult with his wife and family?
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As a young chef, self-taught, he had devoured cookery books of every kind: medieval, Japanese, Italian, all the French masters.
Ever self-effacing, he was not one of the stars of Nuremberg, nor of the legal pantheon in his own country.
And that continued to be part of his self-image as he pursued his passion into a career as a news photographer.
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