How To Use self-criticism In A Sentence
- Women's self-criticism doesn't decline with age. Times, Sunday Times
- The United States, despite its own faults, retains the capacity to combine self-criticism with self-affirmation, demonstrating a pride that we lack.
- Players also queued up with self-criticism. Times, Sunday Times
- A simple test of the big ego is the inability to take a joke, inability to take criticism, seeing everything as an insult to one's respect or "face" which must be protected at all costs (status game), every idea is to be taken very seriously and a profound dissatisfaction is felt and expressed when reality is unwilling to cooperate, either the lack of self-criticism (everything is the fault of others or society) or the opposite extreme, self-flagellation, which is just basically another kind of big-ego game, the holier-than-thou one, and an inability to see other people as anything else but the object of one's desires or an obstacle to them. Armed and Dangerous
- A young man, his angular features sharp as if whittled by a knife, led the self-criticism.
- At times I found his self-criticisms less than convincing.
- I am afflicted with a proclivity for self-criticism whereby every blemish is revealed in all its unredeemed ugliness.
- How he behaved in her presence, he knew not; he was beyond self-criticism or conscious reflection; simply the engine of the commixed three liqueurs, with parlous fine thoughts, and a sense of steaming into the infinite. The Amazing Marriage — Complete
- The persistent experience of disquietude in the book returns us to Said's appeal for ‘unending disclosure, discovery, self-criticism, and liberation’ as the basis of a critical humanism - and art.
- In The Heart of Addiction, Lance Dodes, M.D., includes a chapter "Addictive Behavior as a Rebellion Against a Punitive Conscience," and writes, "Severe, unrealistic self-criticism is a very common precipitant of addictive behavior. Hillary Rettig: Perfectionism And Addiction