How To Use Self-referent In A Sentence
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The problem with those changes is sort of self-referential.
Globe and Mail
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It's an exercise in meta- and all the other pseudo-intellectual, self-referential terms that critics toss around when a movie isn't actually about anything.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Rubber
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Although actors as spectators reinforces the self-referential theatrical imagery, it adds to the sense of an illustrated lecture.
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The growing specialisation has fragmented the literature, and the fragments are enclosed in self-referential writing.
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Do you worry that being self-referential makes your work too insular, thereby limiting your audience?
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An unapologetically self-referential author, Levin constantly intertwines his own life with the story he is telling.
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His heirs are entirely self-referential, mistrusting of craft.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is certainly a very self-referential movie, much more than your previous works.
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To me, this indicates that he not only believes himself divorced from those social categories, but then projects his own self-referential experience onto others and believes them to be similarly divorced from their social categories.
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It's an exercise in meta- and all the other pseudo-intellectual, self-referential terms that critics toss around when a movie isn't actually about anything.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Rubber
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The Church could become the Church, in his view, only if it, too, made the self-referential gesture of abnegation.
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Or, to use the felicitous phrase of the late Northrop Frye, everything in the Scriptures is self-referential.
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The play is also very up-front about being a self-referential, postmodern story-about-stories kind of play, yet manages to do this in a way that's neither academic nor affected.
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Someday in the not too distant future, a university somewhere will have to teach an entire self-referential literature class about novels starring English teachers in Central Europe.
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It's a term that can be used self-referentially with pride or disparagingly about others.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you worry that being self-referential makes your work too insular, thereby limiting your audience?
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If this isn't self-referential enough, the second novel Gabriel is working on is a historical novel set in Newfoundland.
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They might begin to take note of the fact that their self-absorbed and self-referential works over the past two decades in particular have made almost no impact.
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The Independent (UK) ... its narrative strands are not sufficiently developed to engage ... the deliberately congested authorship, which seems the novel's greater emphasis, remains self-referential and unrewarding.
Invisible: Summary and book reviews of Invisible by Paul Auster.
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Installation views of past exhibitions, monumentalized and themselves turned into works of art on the walls of the museum, create a self-referential tautology-successful from the curatorial standpoint, spectacular in terms of the installation-and lead viewers deep into the artist's weltanschauung.
Artforum.com
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About a year ago I read a critique of weblogs which was positive overall, but which made the criticism that the self-referential style of blogs was a weakness.
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In Helga, she creates a self-referential Melanctha of the twenties who at moments openly mocks the very biologistic literary tradition that has produced her.
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Commodification plays a crucial role in the creation of a self-referential subjectivity in the 17th century.
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What Vampire adds is a kind of knowing, self-referential jokiness that lightens the tension without dissipating it.
'Vampire Diaries' stakes its claim in a populated genre
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Surprisingly unconfined by this genre, he continues to produce startling new works that offer a range of effects, from the self-referential to the humorous to the sublime.
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Other types of literature, "theoretical, self-referential, lachrymosely autobiographical", are acknowledged to exist, "but they were just dry wanks".
Top stories from Times Online
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What Vampire adds is a kind of knowing, self-referential jokiness that lightens the tension without dissipating it.
'Vampire Diaries' stakes its claim in a populated genre
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The Conjure-Man Dies, generically and esoterically, presents demanding self-referential problems for the writer and the reader of such hermeneutic texts.
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While the author is self-conscious about being self-referential, he is also knowing about that self-conscious self-referentiality.
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It may actually have been the talkiest cartoon of its era, and the most self-referential; long stretches of dialogue would literally be devoted to analyzing the events of the episode, and the non-Taz characters couldn't do anything without commenting on what they were doing.
Taz-Mania
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"I'm not as narcissistic or self-referential as people think," he says with a smile.
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Educational institutions are evaluated not on the basis of rigorous standards but instead on the basis of a system of credentialism that is self-referential.
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This can be both self-referential and self-reverential.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The dark side represents an abandonment of oppositional discourse, opting instead for self-referential confirmation and commiseration.
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By the end of my visit I would have been happy to see photographs of kittens or even some grandiloquent paintings by Julian Schnabel, anything not so proud of being self-referential and small time.
Snapshot of a Movement
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Martel's aims are ambitious, but the prose is amateur and the characters thin, the coy self-referentiality grates ...
Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel: Book summary
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His vigorously unconventional storytelling has earned him as many critics, who chide him for being overly clever and self-referential, as devotees.
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I´ve seen what people´s lives are actually like in unreconstructed tribal units, and the kind of brutality, unhappiness, narrowness, and spiritual impoverishment which is the human fate in such circumstances- and its a very hard fate to get out of, because a self-referential, collective self-hypnotic trance of entrapment within the tribal story is part of the landscape.
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Moreover, our model adds a dimension that is not present in either Belting or Warburg: the idea of art as a self-staging and self-referential project.
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The moment when Jonas watches his sleepwalking self peer into the camera at his awakened self (or vice versa?) is almost vertiginous in its self-referentiality.
Translated Texts
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In an act of quite startling self-referentiality, Harvey Nichols has dedicated its whole Christmas facade to the act of display building itself: snow-like piles of polystyrene packaging and frosty, crumpled clingfilm decorate the windows, evoking the atmosphere of the store's design studio as a team of improbably dressed mannequins set about carving out giant Arctic-themed props.
Christmas through the looking glass
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Resting place to 560,000 people, the eerily serene hills of Green-Wood are filled with detailed columbaria, self-referential statues, and ornate mausoleums.
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Or a puzzle box loaded with subliminal nudges and self-referential winks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The contents are similarly sweet, gloriously adventuresome pop crafted with astonishing ambition and proficiency, even while being loopily sloppy and self-referential.
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Finally, controlling for egocentric processing/self-referent mental simulation may help elucidate the role of self-processing in spatial cognition.
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Frank does not disappear to Florida, he evaporates in a plethora of textual self-consciousness and metafictional self-referentiality in which Ford writes Frank out of his own narrative.
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But between these fascinating detours is a lot of plodding self-referentiality, tenuous literary allusion and dull road trivia.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Your box is the most solipsistic, self-referential medium.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even Ira might have smiled at that one — or maybe the self-referentiality of Run DMC: This beat is my recital;
Archive 2008-06-01
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One could criticize The Broken Hearts Club for an overdependence on humour of the self-referential variety.
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cognoscenti" - elitist, agoraphobic, self-referential, intellectual narcissists with asthma and a tendency towards pasty skin and the use of words like "cognoscenti".
Truckeratlas Diary Entry
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Self-referential and postmodern, or just weird?
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The artist aims to present her dream-like reality with formal considerations, and her self-referential (and self-realizational) execution often has unforeseen results: "A lot of times, I'm really surprised at what comes out was completely unexpected," she says.
Tanja M. Laden: Marnie Weber's "Eternity Forever"
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It is all too knowing and jokily self-referential, so never frightening, and is dripping with unnecessarily gloopy gore.
Times, Sunday Times
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In deconstructive and psychoanalytic readings in particular, this allegedly pure and self-referential language returns to haunt the text's unity, coherence, and independence.
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Its self-referentiality is not only proper and earned; it grounds the film in the real tinsel beneath the tinsel in tinseltown.
GreenCine Daily: Rouge. 10.
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These sentences are of the self-referential form, s = 'I am not provable from A', where A is a subset of sentences in the theory.
Theories of Everything and Godel's theorem
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When you are a business owner and in a position of authority, it is human to make assumptions and allow self-referential thinking to dominate.
Social Business, the Golden Rule, and Open Empathy Organization
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He managed to find the comedy in melodrama without undermining suspense or lapsing into self-referential cynicism.
I need to read that “Secret Empire” story
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Contemporary works created in this tradition are therefore necessarily intertextual and self-referential.
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The only way to properly shorten the term (while keeping its self-referential qualities intact) would be to call it a "monokini" graph, but this would likely be confusing as well, since so few Americans have been exposed (pun intended) to the French "monokini" on their local beaches.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [122] -- Bikini Bottom Update
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He wishes now to turn away from such hard-edged, self-referential post-modern texts and get into a closer intimacy, a greater communion with his readers, the communion in which lies the main strength of the novel.
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All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
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The self-referential jibes and parody elements work well, as do the innumerable anime in-jokes.
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In some mitigation, for the application of mathematics to the physical world one's conscience may be fairly untroubled by the difficulties of self-referential statements.
Theories of Everything and Godel's theorem
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Why Everybody Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay ', explains: "Finance, like other forms of human behaviour, underwent a change in the twentieth century, a shift equivalent to the emergence of modernism in the arts - a break with common sense, a turn towards self-referentiality and abstraction and notions that couldn't be explained in workaday English.
Johann Hari: How Goldman Sachs Gambled On Starving the Poor - And Won
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Thus do liberals or progressives or whatever we're supposed to be calling ourselves live up to our reputation for using lofty, smug, self-referential and exclusionist language rather than speaking in real, concrete terms.
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That Sienese art came to be self-referential and insular in nature is evident from the constant reworking of compositions and motifs from the earlier trecento.
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All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
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In 1960, metafiction popped up, describing self-referential novels that dealt with the writing of fiction.
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Discourse is thereby conceived as a ‘generative mechanism’ rather than as a self-referential sphere in which nothing of significance exists outside it.
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Call us a bunch of self-referential, mocking, postmodern deconstructionist ironicists, if you will.
Times, Sunday Times
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The production is propelled by the spirit of parody and irony, self-referential allusion, iconoclasm, the postmodernist and post-dramatic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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As a matter of fact the lemma has become the standard tool for producing self-referential statements and for transforming the semantical paradoxes into indefinability and (formal) undecidability results.
Paradoxes and Contemporary Logic
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As a result, our media have increasingly degenerated into self-referential ideological boutiques, with Fox News being the one most likely to annoy Hartmann's fans.
Ian Fletcher: Review: Thom Hartmann's Rebooting the American Dream
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Codex takes its place on the shelf of self-referential, bibliophilic page turners like The Name of the Rose, Possession and A Case of Curiosities, and it's as entertaining as any of them.
Codex by Lev Grossman: Book summary
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This inclination has developed the furthest in philosophy, political science, and economics, where most practitioners have adopted an otherworldly and self-referential formalism.
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For its self-referential abysms are only made darker by the thought that Rosemary Squires didn't pour her heart into this song: Irving Berlin did.
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Findlay is sympathetic to the self-referential and allusive nature of the play, Shakespeare's most mature comedy, and makes no attempt at realism.
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In contrast, as I was watching this deep dive into self-referential reporting in Tripoli, I thought about Bill Gentile, the steely Newsweek photographer I knew in El Salvador, captured in Peru by the Shining Path, the bloodiest and most savage and anarchical guerilla group in the history of Latin America.
Phil Bronstein: Should Journalists Get Out of the News?
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To put it another way, the work is self-referential to the extent that language and the poem are Pastior's only subjects.
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Then there's the definitely genre 'sort of ERB's Barsoom, but set in the near future and with weird and exotic alien tech on Mars' book since I have a feeling intertextually self-referential, postmodern heroic pulp action may be the 'in' thing in the next couple of years.
Archive 2008-03-01
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7. The person behaves self-centeredly and/or self-referentially.
And Obama gives a big “FU” to Bibi, too
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Many are self-referential, often addressing the reader in the second person.
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It is actually something of a challenge to locate sentences in The Structure of Evolutionary Theory that are not unwieldy, ridiculously self-referential, and grotesquely polysyllabic.
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Rather than despair at the self-undermining self-referentiality of the whole idea, the editors rejoice in it.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The doctor often produced such self-referential non sequiturs when at a loss.
THE LAST PLACE
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This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
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The poetry is in a sense self-referential because it explores the transcendental logics of the poetic process.
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This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
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She suggests that she makes 'self-referential, some would say self-obsessed, performance art'.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is revenge theatre that is an exercise in self-referential, stage-centric, obsessive navel-gazing.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, I am also convinced that my stricture about the hermeneutic circle is and must be self-referential.
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Dissent is to be found elsewhere than in this self-referential cul-de-sac.
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More precisely, the referential structure in self-referential paradoxes such as the liar is a reflexive relation on a singleton set, whereas the referential structure in Yablo's paradox is isomorphic to the usual less-than ordering on the natural numbers, which is an irreflexive relation.
Self-Reference
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Self-referentiality is a condition in which we believe our own point-of-view.
Jim Selman: Is Time Running Out?
