make oneself heard

"Sometimes all one has to make oneself heard is imagination, a blank wall and a felt tip pen," she says.

This piece was the longest explicit exploration of a theme that ran through all six works — the struggle to make oneself heard over obstacles.

There are, however, smaller, less visible and hence especially insidious abridgements of the right to make oneself heard.

One chilling effect, felt repeatedly in this city, is on the expression of unpopular opinions and, equally important, on the ability to make oneself heard.

It was no easy thing to make oneself heard with so much noise going on; but Tom obeyed the signal of his chum, under the conviction that Jack must have something of more or less importance which he wished to communicate.