Sentence examples for critical self from inspiring English sources

My doubting, critical self seems smaller, moving around inside the novel's spaces, than the believing child who was here first.

You've raised one of the thorniest dialectics of working, which is that you need your critical self: without it you can't write, but in fact the critical self is what's got both feet on the brakes of your process.

People with mental health issues are very self-critical and ashamed of themselves and we're trying to reevaluate that critical self thinking.

Amis has always wanted to see Nabokov as someone resembling his own critical self — essentially, a "celebrator," a man whose darkness and severities have been overstated.

As the novel gathers momentum toward its resolution, I know in my critical self that it becomes too heavily didactic and sweet with sentiment for our contemporary tastes.

As just mentioned, this view of autonomy is often stated as requiring critical self reflection (see, e.g., Haworth 1986).

It drove his relentless exercises in critical self-inspection.

I was critical, self-righteous, and a jerk.

A modicum of critical self-denial seemed timely.

Mr Brittling is a transparently autobiographical and amusingly critical self-portrait.

He called it "exactly the type of candid, critical self-assessment" that the military needed.