In my favourite piece, "Prayer in the Furnace", a self-examining chaplain berates himself for daring to suggest that some good would come of suffering.
My provocation is this: Maybe the question Linda Rugg raised around the extent to which we define ourselves as people living by the Bay and our impact on nature as well as nature's (creative) impact on us, could be altered to become a self-examining one: Who is the "we" interacting with nature, and does every Bay Area resident have the access or right to this interaction?
War films, one of the two pillars of the genre, changed to having a self-examining perspective of the nation rather than focusing on anticommunism. 5.
War films, one of the two pillars of the genre, changed to having a self-examining perspective of the nation rather than focusing on anticommunism.
Leading a self-examining life accompanied by compassion for what we discover about ourselves.
One of the best things about the piece is its creation of these two worlds: a hot ritual and an intense, self-examining monologue.
It is a gradual self-examining process in order to understand what you're all about.
J. Cole's "Born Sinner" is at the other end of the universe from Kanye West's latest — a quieter, self-examining rap record that's short on audacity but long on workman-like singles.
We live in a post-Drake era, where there's hardly a global shortage of fretfully self-examining R&B, while anxiety is probably the second biggest hot-button topic in pop after sexuality.
Say goodbye to years on a shrink's sofa, endlessly self-examining or CBT's charts and homework.
The reading and writing of fiction is obviously driven in part by a desire to look inward, to be self-examining, reflective.
