unshackling

Example Sentences

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But Kapur and Graft’s story — and by extension the story of Auroville — isn’t one of escape, of unshackling themselves from the clutches of a toxic cult for the safety of the real world.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021

It was a new kind of freedom, the unshackling of his mind.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2019

Coming from a country where too many people were reconciled to their fate from too early an age, the animating force of the American Dream was not just seductive but unshackling.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2017

Exculpating oneself from guilt would in I Saw a Man mean unshackling oneself from others and sinking back into the loneliness of mere sorrow.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2015

Women shall henceforth be the equals of men, not by levelling down, but by levelling up; not by fettering the man, but by elevating, emancipating, unshackling the woman.

From The Woman Who Did by Allen, Grant