The phrase "a mood of self" is not standard in written English and may be confusing.
It could be used in contexts discussing introspection or self-awareness, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "In moments of solitude, I often find myself in a mood of self, reflecting on my thoughts and feelings."
Alternatives: "a state of self" or "a sense of self".
My intention was to see my friends and colleagues and reboot myself, preparing the newest year's anticipated yield of projects, looking forward and backward in a mood of self-gathering.
Bernard Lewis, a Middle East historian and adviser to the Bush administration on its failed Iraq policy, received widespread coverage when he chided Europeans for losing their loyalties, self-confidence, and respect for their own culture, charging that they have "surrendered" to Islam in a mood of "self-abasement," "political correctness," and "multi-culturalism".
The music was provided by a string quartet, as befitted a mood of restrained self-congratulation.
Although the Germans had been eliminated by the Italians in a brutal semifinal, the city was in a mood of lighthearted self-satisfaction.
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Beaten by Mr. Schröder and by a mood of national self-involvement then steering his country away from Europe and the world's burdens, standing on the right side meant, in the end, for the C.D.U.'s father of German unity and the Maastricht Treaty, a bitter exit from power.
The parody and pastiche that Wilson brilliantly deploys in No Laughing Matter and the book's fascination with the sources and resources of creativity constitute a rich, imaginative response to what had become a mood of growing self-consciousness in fiction.
He concluded, "Despite the title, Disintegration hangs together beautifully, creating and sustaining a mood of thoroughly self-absorbed gloom.
William Bellamy, a former US ambassador to Kenya, said: "There is a mood of confidence and self-assurance in Africa that did not exist 10 years ago, including Kenya.
Despite it all, there is no risk that the visitors returned to London in a mood of gloom and self-reproach.
