"self describes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a description or explanation of something that is provided by the thing itself rather than by an outside source. For example, "This dictionary self describes many new words and their definitions."
It was an especially delicious one, in which Self describes the media denizens of a particular bar.
(In turn, Self describes his friend as "quiet and melancholy – he takes an artist's pleasure in the cultivation of a certain kind of tedium vitae").
The novelist Will Self describes its disappearance as "just another casualty of the relentless spatialisation of international capital flows that is London's new skyline".
The book's most sympathetic characters end up being the motos, manatee-like part-human creatures of the future that Self describes in the glossary as "large, viviparous, omnivorous, mammalian," with "the functional intelligence of a 2-year-old human child".
Will Self's macabre pick of a smoking cattle pyre during the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic and Hilary Mantel's frightened, frighteningly sentient-looking monkey at an animal-experimentation laboratory both impart a powerful sense of environmental calamity, and draw on what Self describes as "our divorce from the great balance of the natural world".
Whatever psychogeography may be, Self and Steadman's book opens with a 50-page introduction in which Self describes two long and unlovely walks he took, one from his home in South London to Heathrow, the other from J.F.K. to the Lower East Side.
Mr. Self described the parallel patrols in terms that evoked the United States' military approach in Iraq.
Sahlu Merine, treasurer of the Ethiopian Community Mutual Assistance Association of New York, a self described "die-hard injera lover," said he buys his supply from Ms. Mengistu.
A man who could laugh at the "dark and sinister effect" of the newspaper photographs of his bearded older self; describe his younger self as "a bright young prig in a high collar like a curate".
Fenton is a self described freedom-loving techno geek.
Bakfy had previously self described as 'Secret for colleges'.
