Sentence examples for an internal critic from inspiring English sources

"They used me as an internal critic.

If Mrs. Obama has sometimes been an internal critic, she is also her husband's most determined advocate.

"You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going," Williams said.

Brennan has described himself as an internal critic of waterboarding — a position that friends, such as Emile Nakhleh, a former senior officer, confirm.

He has suggested that he was an internal critic of torture but Republican Senators on the intelligence committee have said there is no evidence of that.

In its early years, the SPLA was, in the words of an internal critic, "a militarist instrument intolerant and averse to democratic methods and principles", hostile to politicians and intellectuals.

If you're a perfectionist or someone with an overactive internal critic, making mistakes can absolutely terrify you and cause you to believe that you have to cover them up or foist the blame elsewhere.

Nick Clegg has brushed off a suggestion by a leading internal critic that the Lib Dems should consider ditching him as leader to avert electoral disaster.

The same is true of GenBebop, devised by the cognitive scientists Lee Spector and Adam Alpern, which improvises solos in the style of Charlie Parker by "listening" to him and iterating its own efforts under the ultimately less-than-discerning ear of an automated internal critic.

The bank distributed the results of the survey to employees shortly after it demoted and reduced the salary of an outspoken internal critic of the bank's leaders, Fabrice Houdart.

If Mr Ramos-Horta loses the presidency, Timor-Leste will be deprived of both an important interlocutor with the outside world and a constructive internal critic.