Occasionally Blew argues with herself.
It is not, Lili argues with herself, as if they were exchanging glances — not as if there were the electricity of suppressed mutual desire.
Such meta-observations, which appear throughout the book, are part of Orenstein's method: she argues with herself, questions her own assumptions, ventures an assertion and then has second thoughts — all in full view of the reader.
Lesser then turns her mature critic's eye on her youthful judgments; she questions and argues with herself, admonishes and revises, eventually arriving at a more complicated understanding of each work.
Her case eventually went to the Supreme Court, where, in an unusual move, Harbury argued it herself.
Sharon is no exception, arguing with herself over what constitutes child abuse.
The country that can produce and celebrate a creature like Undine Spragg is not, Wharton seems to be arguing to herself, a country she can live in.
The late Susan Sontag (whom I argued has herself become a kind of camp intellectual figure) identified the essence of the sensibility, a variant of sophistication, as having a love for the unnatural, the artificial, and the exaggerated, and a certain mode of aestheticism known for its high degree of stylization.
She argues, mostly to herself, that Pepys's "energy burns off blame," and she experiences relief from his "low success rate" during bouts of tomcatting.
Far from being a willing infanticide, Shaw argues, Medea forces herself to kill her children so that no one else can.
Lisa Chamberlain, a journalist and Xer herself, argues that a generation's time has come.
