As happiness and success are more in evidence, they find themselves balanced against a strange, new attitude of self-reckoning.
There are few such moments of self-reckoning and revelation in "Sacred Games," which seems to abide too easily, even zestfully, in degradation and depravity.
After the racial self-reckoning that Mar inspires, does the narrator understand that the front of the bus remains a more desirable place to be?
In Brexit, however, the British people are undergoing a singular self-reckoning, with who we are, and what we want to be.
Initially, silliness balances sentimentality; later in the season, when the series turns somber to confront its body count, there is nothing maudlin in its picture of self-reckoning.
Kromer, the protagonist of this week's story, "The Porn Critic," thinks of himself as a "book nerd, a clerk," while withholding, in his initial self-reckoning, the precise nature of his job — "what he's a clerk at".
Kempowski's novel represents one of the culminating achievements of that postwar German self-reckoning, that political and literary renegotiation of the past that has produced important work by Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, W. G.
Pamela Smith, a science historian who directs the lab, exclaimed, "They're like real emerald!" Smith founded the Making and Knowing Lab two years ago, in a moment of self-reckoning.
The 30 April election is framed as a vital self-reckoning and a chance for transformation in a society that is withered by uncertainty and the creep of regional chaos.
More than in any production of "Pygmalion" (or its more famous musical version, "My Fair Lady") that I have seen, this one presents Higgins in constant flight from feeling and self-reckoning.
Given that this is Mr. Gehry's first commission in his native city, you might expect the building to be a surreal kind of self-reckoning, a voyage through the architect's subconscious.
