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
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
Photograph: Bernard Gotfryd/Getty Images This burden of fraudulence, of needing to keep some lumbering secret self forever under wraps, was not merely a matter of class anxiety.
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2013
It appeared as though "mass psychoanalysis" was eroding the heart's privacy, that secret self shown to be just another carbon-copy of your neighbour's secrets.
From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2012
Your private opinion of me is of small consequence to me, Grant, beside the relief and the joy of being able to say my secret self aloud.
From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham
