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Example sentences for: oneself
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In American advertising, "feeling fresh" refers to ridding oneself of vaginal odor, a view expressed by a fashion model clad in white who has plucked every hair from her body and then painted in some artificial eyebrows and perhaps drawn a silhouette of Thomas Jefferson to replace her pubic hair.
Although its philosophy has been taken over by the field of psychiatry (in which I include psychoanalysis), the idea of shriving oneself of fears and other besetting difficulties has its roots--as far as Western culture is concerned--in the confessional, though it seems likely that reflexes of that procedure could be discovered in profound Eastern religions if not in shamanistic practices.
This is a little like rapping oneself on the knuckles and then continuing on with business as usual.
Perhaps the least likely use of fMRI is in determining if a defendant is telling the truth, according to Hank Greely, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, since compelling someone on trial to submit to an fMRI could be seen as a violation of the Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination, just as giving spoken testimony against oneself is.
It's very handy in the early stages of dating, because it's wonderfully vague--not to mention that it provides an opportunity to poke fun at oneself and modern dating rituals.