self-accusing

Sometimes the self-accusing stuff is also silly stuff; at other times it is gorgeous and heartbreaking.

William had always been introspective and self-accusing.

William had always been introspective and self-accusing.

The narrative voice is subjective, self-analytic, self-accusing, in the manner of White’s later books, but the “plot” unfolds with none of their airy and compulsive candour, being glimpsed obliquely, a partial mystery revealed through fragments and refractions.

And when he's talking about someone like Gibson, or Downey Jr., or Johnny Depp, or Kim Kardashian — or when he's relentlessly targeting himself, as he did for years with the self-accusing or self-effacing humor of The Office and Extras — he may have an arguable point.