How to Use self-realization in a Sentence

self-realization

noun
  • With suspense and self-realizations, this book will have readers lose track of time and space.
    — Sixteen Ramos, USA Today, 9 May 2025
  • For them, stories of female self-realization that began on-screen transformed them off-screen.
    — Shanelle Genai, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t some crytpic way of talking about what happens without spoiling it, about some sort of self-realization.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Was everyone supposed to have done their own self-exploration—self-realization—long ago?
    — Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Post vague quotes about self-realization that are universal but ultimately mean nothing.
    — Emily Menez, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The prosecutor challenged a defense claim that Torres ended the abuse in an act of self-realization.
    — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Taking the main character’s famous journey of self-realization every night.
    — Kansas City Star, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Halle Berry is having a self-realization moment ahead of the release of her new film, Never Let Go.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The book’s alternate realities abound with traps and secrets that trouble the main character’s quest for self-realization.
    — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2024
  • These songs act as cognitive time capsules, evoking moments of heartbreak, discovery, and self-realization.
    — Diana Spehar, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • As a provocative artist at a critical time, his self-realization – on multiple levels – of salvation feels larger than music.
    — Marcus K. Dowling, USA TODAY, 30 May 2023
  • The Palestinian scene is ripe for another jolt of self-realization and empowerment, the nature of which is yet to be determined.
    — Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Churches are sacred spaces in which to have open, honest conversations about self-realization and self-affirmation.
    — W. Franklyn Richardson, STAT, 10 June 2024
  • The Zone is a mysterious dimension of creative cruise control — without self-realization or linear thought.
    — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Leaving, at the time, was seen as a temporary sacrifice, something connected to work and supporting a family, not to self-realization.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The result is a strikingly original and surprisingly moving tale of self-realization.
    — Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 June 2026
  • Although that self-realization is timeless, Roder cannily positions it to speak to contemporary times.
    — Stephen Saito, Variety, 23 Nov. 2025
  • His sociopathy is the logical extension of a homicidal ethos of self-actualization, self-realization, and self-care.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Harris is remaking the sense of freedom from the negative freedom of overcoming constraints to the positive freedom of self-realization and achievement.
    — Richard Stengel, TIME, 17 Aug. 2024
  • While maturing, a person gradually gets liberated from the opinions of these figures and seeks or needs less approval and encouragement for self-realization.
    — Naira Velumyan, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • In the below essay, accompanied by his own photography, Radclyffe shares how riding a bike proved to be a powerful catalyst in his journey of self-realization.
    — Oliver Radclyffe, Them, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But the director maintains a strong level of realistic tension, sticking to Camille’s side as the boy takes plenty of blows but dishes out plenty as well, jabbing his way towards a form of self-realization.
    — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2025
  • But for non-binary great-grandchild Lionel IV — better known as Chas — the road to self-realization and acceptance inspires its own brand of courage and resolve.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Rothwell, who created and stars in the Hulu series, understood the need for a coming-of-age story about celebrating oneself at all parts of the journey, no matter how turbulent the road to self-realization is.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Both young actors are superb, each zigzagging along that fine line between immature posturing and actual, exhilarating self-realization, evoking that transitional stage through which girls like them can often seem at least three ages at once.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The arc of the story is Celie’s journey toward self-realization and freedom, a theme that pops up across Walker’s work and embodies her perspective on Black women’s liberation, which is as much about race as gender.
    — Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Patel expanded on the film’s influences in an interview with talk show host Jimmy Fallon, saying that Kid’s journey mirrors Hanuman’s quest for self-realization.
    — Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Indigo Knecht, a University of Miami graduate student who uses their works to explore themes of emotional upheaval and self-realization.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2024
  • His experiment in self-realization put him in a long line of spiritual seekers, and like innumerable young persons in every generation, he was actively engaged in evolving a design for living, drawing from sources near to and farther from home.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Reading Carl Jung’s theory of individuation, the development of self-realization, led her to see her seven chickens as one continuous being, always in communication with wild birds.
    — Jennifer Piejko, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023

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