Taking Ourselves Too Seriously

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
TOTS
Pronunciation
/ˈteɪkɪŋ ɑrˈsɛlvz tu ˈsɪriəsli/
Category
Community
Related Field
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Examples in Context

  1. Maybe we are taking ourselves too seriously, and we can just laugh and watch the tension dissolve.
  2. If we can see the funny side, we never make the mistake of taking ourselves too seriously.
  3. The feeling mercifully mitigates the sense of responsibility which so easily becomes paralyzing, and it preventing us from taking ourselves and other people too seriously;
  4. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people all too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in particular, gives humor its due.

Other meanings of TOTS