Not only has someone just wrested the control of your Healing Journey away, you now have an extra-helping of lousy self-opinion to go along with it - and that opinion of yourself was just dictated by someone else.
Ethnic politics is a lousy game and self-defeating.
Indeed, some will be lousy, for reasons including self-indulgence, the casting of stars in inappropriate roles, and, most of all, lack of originality.
If you can't be alone without self-criticism and self-attack, you will settle for lousy friendships and lovers just to find a diversion from loneliness.
They were dishonest and self-involved and distant, loaded with lousy values and crumby tricks.
But given what lousy TV the conventions are -- dull, obsolete, self-serving -- the parties should feel lucky that they haven't been relegated to Webcasts.
The grand whole of self was simply too big and too lousy for me to love all at once.
"Shrek!," published in 1990, is about a creature — warty, lousy, gap-toothed, noisome, and green — who is utterly self-confident.
So, let's all pretend that young people are prey to evil pushers, rather than self-determining individuals who, like adults, make some lousy decisions.
The strategy may sound absurdly self-destructive, but it fits into a grand tradition of lousy municipal services.
People feel worse about themselves -- suffering lowered self-esteem, to use a tiresome phrase -- when they've had a lousy haircut or when their hair flies around.
