self-creation
- a word derived from creation.
Example Sentences
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As Wasson writes, Coppola’s career has been “a colossal, lifelong project of experimental self-creation few filmmakers can afford — emotionally, financially — and none but he has undertaken.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
The strands of Talley’s singular life story were in constant tension between self-creation and self-preservation, between achieving his wildest fantasies and soldiering through his enduring struggles.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2023
To put this in the terms of the American neoliberals Foucault was reading at the time, the "entrepreneur of the self" was willing to put their very identity at risk in the act of self-creation.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021
Her self-creation is the fierce and frightening Hedwig, who yearns for an audience and then spits in its face.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2020
He may have experimented on cultures of microbes for a generation; and then he calls on earth and heaven to acknowledge the mystery of the self-creation of the universe.
From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various
