Example Sentences

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He felt, because of the depth of his own implication, his passionate self-commitment, here, infinitely superior to more casual, to blinder, journeyings.

From The Bright Shawl by Hergesheimer, Joseph

It was not, after all, so much in the travail of the soul as in a serene and effortless self-commitment to a power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness, that we were to be saved.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn