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took us a while to get it." In the 1967 film The Producers and its later adaptations, two Broadway producers try to set up a show to fail by intentionally...

or inner speech) is communication with oneself or self-to-self communication. Examples are thinking to oneself "I will do better next time" after having...

Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for social...

Meditations." In A Companion to Marcus Aurelius. Edited by Marcel van Ackeren, 45–61. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Dickson, Keith. 2009. "Oneself as Others: Aurelius...

capacity to give an account of itself to others, and respects those limits as symptomatically human. To take seriously one's opacity to oneself in ethical...

up illeist or illeism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Illeism (/ˈɪli.ɪzəm/; from Latin ille: “he; that man”) is the act of referring to oneself in...

those projects require more attention is recommended. Putting oneself in the position to be recognized as someone who can handle the work they were assigned...

his activist outings and discusses not giving up on loving someone, loving oneself, and not giving up on one's dreams. It received mostly positive reviews...

a way that would damage oneself more than the object of one's anger. It was not uncommon in the Middle Ages for a person to cut off the nose of another...

Island To Oneself. Thomas Francis Neale was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but his family moved to Greymouth while he was still a baby, and then to Timaru...

geese aup — expression to get up aupi — expression of happiness ausk — sound of bite auzi-mauzi — quarrel, problem. axi — expression to set the dog on somebody...

starving oneself ("starvemaxxing"), using moisturizers to attempt to appear more white ("whitemaxxing"), and withholding sexual climax in an effort to boost...

satisfiers to be satisfied. In addition, needs have to be satisfied within three contexts: (a) in relation to oneself (Eigenwelt); (b) in relation to the social...

may be to discourage oneself from self-harming in it again,: 105  although some may nonetheless cut on top of a tattoo.: 176  Some people choose to incorporate...

may be rightful steps to protect oneself properly while in a difficult situation, such as what steps to take to protect oneself after being fired. But...

returned to an earlier point of their effort to find their bearings. This may result from topographical disorientation, the inability to orient oneself in one's...

formal, legal definition of what makes somebody a co-founder. The right to call oneself a co-founder can be established through an agreement with one's fellow...

Look up vault or vaulting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vault may refer to: Jumping, the act of propelling oneself upwards Vault (architecture)...

duties, with each member contributing to the writing. The album is centered on themes of growing up, discovering oneself, and anxieties that arise in adolescence...

beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself (i.e., "Everyone is out to get me"). Paranoia is distinct from phobias, which also involve...