self-encouragement

Kemoc said, not as if to me, but in self-encouragement.

The promotional self-encouragement did nothing to address how crummy my hair actually looked.

Provide self-encouragement, every step takes us somewhere.

These groups serve not only as a form of self-encouragement for individuals, but also to build identity and credibility as a trickster in the community.

That self-encouragement worked.

It expresses plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command, purpose or consequence.

Cancer patients in a study that I conducted used prayer as well as meditation, visual imagery, dissociation, self-encouragement or any strategy they chose.

Disregarding the near miss, the doctor regained his balance and charged back toward Roger, uttering shrill cries of self-encouragement.

The letters, Mr. Katz suggested, were a form of self-encouragement as Fuller struggled to find a reason for going on.

Picard had stopped talking, except for occasionally muttering self-encouragement such as, "Come on, Picard, you can do it."

Helping kids handle put-downs: teaching assertion, use of humour, and self-encouragement (Sopris West, 1998)

The jussive mood expresses pleading, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wishing, desiring, intention, commanding, purpose, or consequence.

It neighed the way horses do in a fight, in self-encouragement, and its legs never ceased flailing as it tried to trample down the brine.

A more recent longitudinal study 52 showed no relation between coping style (depressive coping, self-encouragement and distraction, and problem-tackling) and three-year course of disease (metastasis or death).

I was especially glad to see Daniela get through 6-4, 6-3 over Ai Sugiyama, because Daniela is a person who needs a lot of encouragement to thrive, and confidence equals self-encouragement.

With that bit of self-encouragement, Joyner-Kersee ran the fastest 200 meters of the 31 women competing in the heptathlon to extend her lead after the first day of competition to 125 points over Sabine Braun of Germany.