forging an identity

The most moving permanent exhibit has little to do with forging an identity or image.

Additionally, the narrator is never given a name, which emphasizes how lost he feels in terms of forging an identity.

It involves the work of forging an identity that has coherence and integrity, whether or not anyone is looking.

In fact, some feel the channel may at long last be forging an identity that was lacking in its early years.

He intended to create in them a distinctive cultural icon for Uruguay itself, a country then forging an identity and a history.

Forging an Identity Within weeks he was on campus, quickly establishing an identity.

Forging an identity as sellers of oblivion to those who want it appears to be the strategy of the moment.

By the 2000s, the sense was that Cadillac had once again found its motivation and was forging an identity as car to aspire to.

The quartet is forging an identity as a group that plays standard repertory but also, in the spirit of its explorer namesake, new works.

She is a strong proponent of individualism and personal growth: the only entity capable of forging an identity being the person him or herself.

Mr. Thomas is one of a group of young musicians hellbent on forging an identity for themselves, both improvisationally and compositionally.

Nolan, who grew up on an Ojibwa First Nation reserve in Ontario, had already been forging an identity apart from coaching.

Nevertheless, 140 West 57th Street is in the process of forging an identity of its own, and that identity is largely shaped by its architecture.

Forging an Identity: Ireland at the Millennium, the Evolution of a Concept - Irish Association Publication - 2000.

It is forging an identity distinct from the more venerable combat sport of boxing - or, M.M.A.'s leaders argue, nudging the sweet science further into the sports periphery.

"People make a selection about which of their lineages they want to connect to: parts of the world, periods of history, famous ancestors," forging an identity apart from simply being "American."

Like Holocaust survivors, scholars say, many of the families bear intimate witness to evil; like Vietnam War veterans, they have clung to one another through the crisis, forging an identity.

By signing the young players, the Indians are forging an identity in Cleveland and hoping to rekindle some interest in a club that has not played in a World Series since 1948.

We must not forget that sport contributes to forging an identity and bringing people together, as well as uniting sportspeople and spectators by offering the latter the opportunity to identify with their nation.

For no ethnic or religious group has it been a more important rite, they maintain, than for American Jews, who embraced camp 70 years ago as a way of escaping the cities, preserving their traditions and forging an identity.

Part of the reason Folk U. was such an appealing college to attend was that its agenda fit so neatly with that of young adults still in the tribal stages of forging an identity distinct from parents and less cherished peers.

In the aftermath of a ferry accident, Alex rescues a pregnant woman (Elizabeth Reaser) who awakes with amnesia, and grows close to Alex as he helps her forging an identity for herself, picking out the name Ava.

After shelving the emerging company markets program, which was designed to aid small companies that could not meet normal trading standards, and making clear that companies that were suspect would face pressure, he has turned his attention to expanding and forging an identity for the American Stock Exchange.