I hate those ACTS of righteous self-denial that people do just so they can brag about them: health cleanses, bow hunting, reclaiming your virginity.
Even if protests fizzle for the time being, a certain pride of reclaiming possession was vividly in evidence.
The Heritage Foundation is running a “first principles” project “to save America by reclaiming its truths and its promises and conserving its liberating principles for ourselves and our posterity”.
Sandra has had her hair cut short and has begun to wear more masculine clothes as a way of reclaiming her lost manhood.
This may be done innocently, not realizing what is lost; or with an eye to reclaiming space in a congested building, a sacrifice demanded of the team in exchange for the open space they need.
