Self Examining

Whether it is or not, he is never going to know because he is not asking any self-examining questions about his impact on the lives he purports to save. ❋ Jonathan Lewis (2011)

But yes: if a large part of white culture is predicated upon the sovereignty of the individual and small-governemnt, Big-C conversativism, then yeah, white culture - which even those of us who aren't 'white' are a part of - needs to do some self-examining. ❋ Unknown (2009)

John Carey's official biography, William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies 2009, was a scholarly, cool-headed examination of Golding's life and work that presented a "deeply self-examining and self-blaming man", frustrated and obsessed by his personal and professional failings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Carey gently presents Golding's lifelong weakness as the self-medication of "a deeply self-examining and self-blaming man who, as he said more than once, saw the seeds of all evil in his own heart." ❋ Wendy Smith (2010)

England had entered one of her uncertain, self-examining periods of nostalgia, looking back to the fin-de-siecle and Edwardian social certainties. ❋ Unknown (2008)

After my dad died, when she was living fairly comfortably on his pensions, my mom became much more vulnerable and self-examining, eventually converting to Lutheranism. ❋ Dodie Bellamy (2008)

The Guardian described Martha Wainwright as "wearingly needy, endlessly self-examining", which gives me a damn good reason not to have anything to do with her, but just look at that picture, would you? ❋ Gordie (2008)

I suppose, however, that most of us have a lot of self-examining to do before we see the last of this kind of comedy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But never in the self-examining way endemic to certain characters in films about youth. ❋ Jaime Clarke (2007)

You might find them valuable as you offer self-examining prayers before God. ❋ Lynn Anderson (2007)

Kresnov as a character has matured in a delicious way, staying hot and ultra-bad-ass while keeping the self-examining, self-reliant emotional core that makes her such an appealing heroine... ❋ Lou Anders (2007)

I was just self-examining how diverse my list was. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)

It has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so hits all other men, and, as the country people say of good preaching, “comes bounce down into every pew.” ❋ Unknown (2006)