Yet his poems, though cramped by pessimism and self-distrust, do reach out.
** Yet his poems, though cramped by pessimism and self-distrust, do reach out.
The curious blend of obstinate determination with self-distrust, a feature of his maturity, was already evident.
Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear, and despair – these are the long, long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust.
Self-loathing and self-distrust lurk in his work with somatic unease; he is the forbear of modern man's sense of dread.
I have searched myself to see whether I have ever spent such an anxious time, so full of yearning, so full of self-distrust, and I don't think I have.
Bouts of nervous illness and self-distrust prevented Austin from fully utilizing his great powers; his life, as his widow wrote, was one of "unbroken disappointment and failure," in ironic contrast with his posthumous fame and influence.
Moreover, on McLeod's account, the self-trust necessary for autonomy is (epistemically) "justified self-trust": for instance, self-trust or self-distrust is not justified if agents overestimate or underestimate their competence in certain contexts (McLeod 2002, 104).
Self-distrust rather is the quality to which many a pilot owes his protracted existence".
And this question is often driven, I think, by negative impulses: a nagging sense of self-distrust (am I deluding myself with hedonism, clinging to autonomy?) and /or the habit of chronic discontentment (will I be tormented if I don't have what everyone else has?).
Results suggested that participants' self-professed distrust in the utility was associated with significantly lower willingness to register for the DLC program.
