#sent
- Attar — A proper name particularly associated with Farid ud-Din Attar, a famous twelfth-century Persian mystic poet and Sufi theorist, author of 'The Conference of the Birds'. In the Middle East and India, the term (often spelled 'itar') also designates a natural, pure, and concentrated perfume oil obtained through the structural distillation of flower petals into sandalwood bases.
- To defend oneself — To defend oneself; to directly sustain one's own interests, rights, innocence, or point of view before a court of law, an authority, or accusations brought by others, without necessarily relying on the assistance of a lawyer or legal representative; also, to physically protect oneself against an aggression or external attack through one's own efforts.
- Self-denunciation — The action by which a person presents themselves on their own initiative before criminal investigation bodies or judicial authorities to confess a crime or an illicit act that they personally committed or participated in, before it is discovered. In structural procedural terms, it represents a cause for sentence reduction or impunity according to the penal code.
- Autogram — A sentence, short text, or self-referential utterance specially structured to describe or accurately count its own typographic components (such as the total number of letters, vowels, consonants, or punctuation marks contained). In classical philology, the term sometimes describes a letter or official document written by the hand of the same person who signs it.
- Self-portrait — A portrait of an artist (painter, sculptor, photographer) created by themselves; a self-referential visual representation wherein the creator analyzes their own physical features and inner psychological state through their own aesthetic lens. In literature, the term denotes a detailed and often critical description or psychological analysis that a writer makes of their own person within an autobiographical work.
- To portray oneself — To create one's own self-portrait; to describe or represent oneself in a detailed manner within a work of art, an autobiographical text, or a critical discourse. On a psychological and analytical level, it reflects the structural reflexive action through which a creator transposes their own identity, character traits, and inner dynamics into a fixed conceptual format, offering the public an assumed self-referential perspective.
- To introduce oneself — To introduce oneself to an audience, group, or individual, describing one's qualities, skills, status, or identity; to resort to conscious discursive or behavioral strategies to shape, control, and manage the impression others form of oneself. In a professional or digital environment, it represents the structural act by which an individual constructs and externalizes their public image (personal branding).
- Self-presentation — The act of self-presenting and its result; a behavioral and structural discursive process through which an individual attempts to determine and guide the identity that others attribute to their public image. In sociological theories (such as Erving Goffman's dramaturgical approach), it represents the way a person plays their social role on the stage of daily interactions, utilizing clothing, language, and attitude as tools of impression management.
- Axonometry — A geometric method and technical procedure of three-dimensional graphical representation of an object on a single projection plane, by referencing it to an orthogonal system of three coordinate spatial axes. Unlike converging perspective, this type of structural organization keeps parallel lines unchanged and allows direct or proportional measurement of the object's dimensions along the axes, offering a technical visualization of superior clarity.
- Today — A temporal adverb indicating the current day, the day now passing, or the immediate present; today. In a broad or philosophical sense, it designates the current era, modernity, or the present stage of society. Used as a noun, it represents the abstract concept of the current moment, serving as a baseline chronological pillar of reference relative to the past and the future, ensuring a clear and clean temporal orientation in daily communication.
- This morning — A compound temporal adverbial phrase utilized to denote the early part of the current day (this morning). This lexical structure combines the temporal deictic modifier 'azi' with the noun 'dimineață' to place an action or event in a very recent past, serving as a precise and clean reference point within daily event narratives.