He was more often than not drunk, improvising the lines and interpolating them with strange self-interrogations.
Ms. Pearson never finds satisfactory answers to her self-interrogations, but the professionals do not do much better.
Finally, for 21st-century readers, it is now almost obligatory to point out that these books are pre-Freudian, with a strange, bruised innocence whose self-interrogations also evoke the tormented banality of psychoanalysis.
He will do this thinking in ruthless self-interrogations, followed by the usual patented Eggers Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace.
Many of his favourite novelists – Sterne, Diderot, Broch, Musil, Gombrowicz – really belong to that tributary of ironic, equivocal writing in which the authors are so conscious of the contradictions, pitfalls and contrivances inherent in the act of creating fictions that their books themselves become, on one level, parodies or at least self-interrogations.
Many New York artists around that time were using aggression and anxiety in their work: Chris Burden and Vito Acconci's violent late-60's performance art, Mr. Byrne's yelpy self-interrogations with the Talking Heads, Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham's symphonic blastoffs for massed electric guitars.
Lyrically, "A Deeper Understanding" is a record about self-interrogation.
By and large, however, Orenstein's reflexive self-interrogation is a good match for her material.
This kind of self-interrogation ends up with numerous arguments on either side of the ledger.
As he flees across Europe, Conrad's inner voice echoes his wife's remorseful self-interrogation.
One does not always want to be subject to self-interrogation imposed by a cliché.
