How to Use self-conception in a Sentence

self-conception

noun

• That self-conception clashed with what they were being asked to do.
  — Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
• The fourth, and maybe the most elusive, concerns self-conception.
  — Max Moser, STAT, 9 July 2026
• Part of him wants to aggrandize the country to reflect his own inflated self-conception.
  — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2025
• But perhaps just as important are the potential harms to our own self-conception, both as individuals and as a species.
  — Charles Yu, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026
• In other words, the goonstate, so central to the subculture’s branding and self-conception, is only rarely attained.
  — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• This is in keeping with our flattering self-conception as optimizers and pragmatists.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
• The foreign minister’s comments were confusing, but his deputy elucidated them in much clearer terms about the government’s self-conception.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
• Conybeare, a classics scholar, intertwines learned exegesis with examples of Augustine’s human idiosyncrasies, offering illuminating analyses of the philosopher’s seminal texts and ideas—including his theory of original sin—and of the role that his heritage played in his self-conception.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• Encompassing Africana studies, medieval scholarship, historiography, and philosophy, this book surveys centuries of literature, history, and theology to argue for Africa’s influence on Europe’s self-conception.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026