Example Sentences

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What was the special reason for this earnest vehemence, aside from the fact that the World is a self-constituted tutor to all men on all matters?

From Time Magazine Archive

But Beecham cannot be dismissed merely as a brilliant swashbuckler or the self-constituted enfant terrible of music, for the Beecham legend stands on a rock of solid musical achievement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chairman of a self-constituted intercongregational lay committee, he campaigned with the argument that three in every seven Jewish families in Louisville neglected to keep up congregational membership.

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The self-constituted group, the therapists decided, had been readymade for treatment.

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There was an exchange of glances between the new self-constituted master and mistress.

From The Outcaste by Penny, F. E.