self-making
- a word derived from making.
Example Sentences
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It is a story of motherhood and disjunction, of self-making and villainy, of a remarkable power depicted and deployed on an intimate scale.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2023
“Sigh, Gone” does not question its central premise that assimilation should be the desired goal for self-making and self-preservation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2020
Seemingly mesmerized by her own image, she is captured at the innocent early stages of preoccupation with womanly self-presentation and self-making.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019
Autonomous, freely choosing individuals defined by extensive rights of self-making and self-construction.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
Himself a self-made man, the old merchant worshiped this self-made demigod, the model and unattainable example of every self-making man since his day.
From Superwomen by Terhune, Albert Payson
