But in the right hands — in Wilentz's hands, or Joan Didion's, say, a writer whom Wilentz matches for note-perfect prose and unflinching inquiry — it becomes almost an act of humility, this open acknowledgment of the self who's telling the story, with all her flaws and shifting moods, her own set of agendas.
Sometimes getting angry with others is about feeling that you don't have control over them; the reality is that you don't need any other person's acknowledgment of your self worth and you don't need to control them.
This might seem a straightforward victory — the narrator has unburdened herself — but Rogers's plainspoken acknowledgment of the self-destruction that accompanies true metamorphosis is eloquent.
Both candidates showed support for the 2nd Amendment -- though Reason's Jacob Sullum thought Obama's "acknowledgment of armed self-defense as a constitutional right" was "belated" and "halfhearted" -- but agreed that this country must curb its culture of gun violence.
This deterioration can then be explained by the acknowledgment of COPD, poor disease self-management (routine or acute situation), the presence of comorbidities (depression, sleep trouble, metabolic syndrome…) and/or weak support from family and friends.
Although the identity of the reviewers is not disclosed and vice-versa (which removes the potential influence of the involved countries, institutions or eventual personal conflicts), the process sometimes fails, because the method, style of writing, acknowledgments and abuse of self-citations can suggest the source.
Authentic gratitude is enough of an acknowledgment to foster self-esteem without leading to the kind of dependency on others that "good job" seems to do.
Yet for all the shock of Falstaff's — and Welles's — exclusion from the castle that he filled with life, there's a moment in the film when Welles seemingly pierces the screen with the anguish of self-recognition, the acknowledgment of his own failings in nourishing his appearance rather than his being, his pleasures rather than his duties.
It takes a lot of self-awareness and acknowledgment of your own crap to be able to bear witness and hold space for other peoples' "stuff".
Commonly cited subcomponents of wisdom included knowledge of life, prosocial values, self-understanding, acknowledgment of uncertainty, emotional homeostasis, tolerance, openness, spirituality, and sense of humor.
For Vice President Al Gore, the second presidential debate was basically an act of contrition, a sustained and sometimes lightly self-mocking acknowledgment of where he had gone wrong the first time around.
