secret self
Example Sentences
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Did the 16-year-old boy who wrote that calendar also have a secret self?
From Slate • Sep. 28, 2018
But gradually I shed my secret self and the shame that came with it.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2017
To guard one’s secret self, in other words, from slavemasters in the old days, and today from government lackeys, international aid workers, outsiders, reporters, et al.
From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2017
In their simplest form, they show us an underdog empowered to effect change by embracing a secret self.
From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013
In the secret self of these hapless women is a strange equilibrium that consoles and reassures them.
From The Memoirs of Victor Hugo by Hugo, Victor
