oneselves

Example Sentences

• "In a library, it is discouraged to talk amongst oneselves."
• "But over it, above everything, there mounted that atmosphere which is the marked characteristic of such assemblies, the vaporisation of a sentiment shared by all, that of being among oneselves, and of being thereby generally and solidly united by nothing whatever."
• "For the most part the younger crowd were sexually involved with each other. "One could sort of run around amongst oneselves," Laura recalled, "but certainly one did not invade the love lives, the sacred marriages, of the older group.""
• "On UCLA's end, the halftime assignment was a hard mix of believing in oneselves and believing in luck."
• "These possibilities are so similar to what actually happened to us as children raised in violence that the current situation may feel like a replay of the past — of being powerless, disbelieved, and unable to defend oneselves or to escape from the problem."
• "A cost-benefit analysis as applied to volition is the process through which individuals identify their overarching goal or goals, perhaps freely, perhaps not, then choose a particular course of action. The individual would then consider the following variables: the most likely benefits of a particular course of action to oneself (and perhaps others), the possible negative consequences of the act (to oneselves and perhaps others), the likelihood of achieving the benefits, the likelihood of negative consequences and their likely degree, and based on all these factors, whether the course of action will achieve the goal (benefit) with the fewest consequences (costs)."