Although he continued to paint, he was a ruthless self critic, given to slashing canvases with blades, and no works survive from between 1947 and the winter of 1948.
As a longtime film writer, who's covered the Cannes Film Festival since 1992 most recently for Movieline—I wasn't particularly surprised to see negative reviews coming from top-self critics.
The habit of self-criticism engenders fear of failure, meaning that self-critics often don't even try achieving their goals because the possibility of failure is unacceptable.
Arlander Brown told me, "As you learn to be a better critical reader you learn to be a better self-critic, too".
Rose is a bit of a perfectionist and an extremely harsh self-critic.
Always a stern self-critic, Hawthorne scribbled such cries of despair as "All this amounts to just nothing.
Lectures were cancelled and the New Republic, a longstanding ally, removed him from its masthead.A severe self-critic, he dealt poorly with sniping from others.
ALWAYS a cutting self-critic, Charles Ives said he hadn't been adventurous enough in his four violin sonatas, written in what he called his "weak-minded, retrogressive moments".
By how much, I asked the Duke, a notorious self-critic, had Piazza missed tying the game — how far off the sweet spot had he hit the pitch?
Jorge Posada is such a harsh self-critic of his ability to come into a game cold and hit that he almost sounds like Paul O'Neill.
She was exacting, loyal, charming, an astute critic and an overly stern self-critic, and a person for whom being cultivated was neither aspirational nor a privilege, but an innate, human virtue.
