The phrase "account of itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something explains or justifies its own existence or actions.
Example: "The theory must provide an account of itself to be considered valid in the scientific community."
Alternatives: "explanation of itself" or "justification of itself".
The orchestra, too, had its erratic moments but gave a generally good account of itself, and of Haydn.
The real surprise is that it gives a fairly good account of itself off the road as well.
That ensemble, which goes under the slightly unwieldy name Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Israel Broadcasting Authority, gave a powerful account of itself on Tuesday evening at Carnegie Hall.
Unlike England their bench arrivals proved rather less productive against a Fijian team which again gave a decent account of itself.
"They are a collective project for individual benefit … something that the market cannot accomplish, except, on its own account of itself, by happy inadvertence.
Once human progress had been elided with entrepreneurship, and annexed as a subset of business, the left's account of itself as a frame of thought that even understood modernity, let alone could embrace and embody it, shrivelled.
Yet, despite the dining room's case of Sunday blahs, the kitchen gave a good accounting of itself throughout the evening.
Second, pluralists are expected to explain how the platitudes can be "converted" into an account of truth itself.
But there are some reasons to prefer requiring the account of creation itself to imply this unique role.
However, some other problems for frequentism remain, and some new ones emerge, beginning with more basic problems for the Lewisian account of lawhood itself.
Jenefer Robinson has attempted to revive the expression theory, though she defends it as an interesting and valuable use of music's expressivity, rather than an account of expressivity itself (2005, 229 347; 2011).
