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the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
you can lose your identity when you join the army
How To Use personal identity In A Sentence
- Our personal identity has become increasingly malleable in this modern age. Times, Sunday Times
- It has been largely German and Jewish history that Mr. Odenbach circles so probingly in his video installations and paper works, though he suggests he uses German history "to explore something more universal—the question of personal identity. Meditations on History
- But here again a great swath of Americans whose sense of personal identity and pride was tied to their eleemosynary activities in their communities are now bereft of even this intrinsically important part of their lives. Raymond J. Learsy: Krugman Takes On the Angry Rich But Misses Their Pompous Pieties
- The problem of personal identity can be thorny and frustrating.
- Central to much recent work on embodiment is the metaphor of the body as a text or surface upon which our cultural and personal identity is written.
- He furthered my quest to slowly and deliberately develop my musical and even my personal identity.
- The double is the literary negation of personal identity and the concept of character, just as the repetition of events is the negation of time and plot.
- This gathering of songs from the Angus-bred singer and fret player from Scots band Malinky is more an assertion of personal identity than a hansel to the glens, Mearns and tenacious coastal townships of his youth.
- Though pro-European, he's not confused about his personal identity.
- Lack of privacy, loss of security and personal identity and isolation from family and friends may also contribute to anxiety.