Example Sentences

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Equally symptomatic, not causal, are self-avowedly “deviant” and “transgressive” gyrations by people who imagine that the sunset of civic-republican order heralds a liberating, Dionysian dawn.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2018

Newsom’s approach to policy is self-avowedly entrepreneurial and bold.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 29, 2018

Hers is a self-avowedly saccharine, indulgent kind of food.

From The Guardian • Nov. 2, 2016

Most fundamentally, for someone so self-avowedly progressive, Damon’s claim about the lack of progressive options was a head-scratcher. 

From Time • Aug. 9, 2013

She was, self-avowedly, everything he held abhorrent—alien, worldly, and weak.

From The House of Fulfilment by Martin, George Madden