self-invented

Still, to me, the exciting thing about America to celebrate on Election Day is that so many of our leaders remain self-invented Gatsbys who come out of nowhere from humbler origins, such as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

On Election Day 2010, the heirs have it Matt Miller 2010

"The result of this studycontravenes many of the Tea Parties 'self-invented myths, particularly their supposedly sole concentration on budget deficits, taxes and the power of the federal government," reads the introduction to "Tea Party Nationalism," a joint project with the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights.

NAACP Takes On The Tea Parties: Report Charges Movement Has Ongoing Ties To Anti-Semites, Racists And Bigots The Huffington Post News Team 2010

I have tried to focus through a self-invented "entrepreneurial philanthropy" on the grievous challenges of seriously ill children, of those kids who are abused and neglected, and of our urban homeless.

Peter Samuelson: Lighting a Few Bright Candles Peter Samuelson 2011

It's election night 2010 in Reykjavik, Iceland, and Gnarr - a joke candidate for mayor running from his self-invented Best Party - has won.

Marshall Fine: Interview: Comedian (and Reykjavik mayor) Jon Gnarr Marshall Fine 2011

He was on his own, self-invented; he made the mistakes young men make when no wise, sophisticated hand is available to guide them.

The GOP Takes a Wild Ride Peggy Noonan 2012

I have tried to focus through a self-invented "entrepreneurial philanthropy" on the grievous challenges of seriously ill children, of those kids who are abused and neglected, and of our urban homeless.

Peter Samuelson: Lighting a Few Bright Candles Peter Samuelson 2011

If your own self-invented stories fail, try the standard backup.

Stephanie Green: Go the F*** to Sleep Author's Bedtime Stories Stephanie Green 2011

If your own self-invented stories fail, try the standard backup.

Stephanie Green: Go the F*** to Sleep Author's Bedtime Stories Stephanie Green 2011

As we are divorced now, it does not matter, but we were married on the beach at Lake Tahoe, California the dog was our only attendant, and it is very, very strange to not remember something as personal and self-invented as that.

Amnesia Murray Dunlap 2011

I miss that effect in people, except in tiny children for whom everything has just self-invented.

Moose-Watching, Moose-Watched William Doreski 2011