As is well known in China, the beginning of a cultural revolution begins with a healthy dose of self-denunciation.
So, as our cultural revolution begins, the moderates might as well get the self-denunciation under way.
This is the beginning of an argument with himself — not craven self-denunciation, but a genuine effort to draw out and clarify the hard trade-offs and ideological confusions that the past years have forced on all thinking people.
In the grotesque pageant of Iran's show trials, former high officials — hollow-eyed, dressed in prison pajamas, and flanked by guards in uniform — sit in rows, listening to one another's self-denunciations.
By Laura Secor Mohammad Ali Abtahi In the grotesque pageant of Iran's show trials, former high officials — hollow-eyed, dressed in prison pajamas, and flanked by guards in uniform — sit in rows, listening to one another's self-denunciations.
He also had an odd penchant for self-deprecation: he insisted, loudly, on his own insignificance, and when someone inevitably informed us who we were dealing with — a poet whose fans include Denis Johnson, Richard Hell, and Mary Karr — the volume of his self-denunciations would only increase.
There are two-hour self-denunciation films in the USSR state archives that are less terrifying than the statement she put out afterwards, asking to be forgiven for her crimes.
In a subsequent, regrettably self-righteous, denunciation of his entrappers, he sought to retain these positions; and thereby ensured he lost both.
We need to eliminate duplicity altogether.That is what I take Mr Assange to be getting at in his predictably pretentious and self-righteous denunciation of the "authoritarian conspiracy" that runs the United States.
He is given to long-winded, self-righteous denunciations of his fellow humans for what he perceives as their blind conformism, which makes him very irritating.
The apotheosis of his extraterritorial self-aggrandizement was his Republican-sponsored denunciation of President Obama's Iran negotiations to a joint session of Congress.
