self-analysis

Example Sentences

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The self-analysis, at times, has been more brutal than any pundit could muster on their angriest day.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2023

I suppose that in dissecting the song with them, I was indulging in some self-analysis: trying to understand how a happy union of lyrics and musical notes could stay with me so meaningfully, for decades.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

Until, that is, they reach the point where self-analysis ends and self-interest begins.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2022

Self-criticism term for a method of public self-analysis proposed by Mao Tse-Tung as a means to achieve personal and societal improvement.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

In some moments of self-analysis his heart warmed in confessional, but this feeling, traitorous to his duty, he put in the storehouse of locked-away impulses.

From The Three Sapphires by Fraser, W. A.