Arch and obsessive in one breath, this compulsive self-observer emerged as a puckish priest of style for the Age of Irony.
Like the author, its narrator and central character, Porter Platt, is a prep-school type and a self-conscious and self-deprecating observer of his own class and status.
Within this context, the rating scales of depression severity, whose first date from the end of the last century can be divided into ranges: a) self-assessment, b) hetero c) mixed, involving self and observer.[ 15] The first scale of hetero-evaluation, that is, applied by an observer, was the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D), designed and developed by Hamilton in the late 50s.
I've often attributed my best and worst qualities to being an only: the love of solitude and the fear of it, the itch to play the class clown and the sudden reticence that reads as aloofness, the debilitating tendency toward blinding self-criticism, the pleasure and discomfort of being detached from a given group — a self-appointed observer, taking notes on the action as the action goes on.
I've often attributed my best and worst qualities to being an only: the love of solitude and the fear of it, the itch to play the class clown and the sudden reticence that reads as aloofness, the debilitating tendency toward blinding self-criticism, the pleasure and discomfort of being detached from a given group—a self-appointed observer, taking notes on the action as the action goes on.
In his earlier travel writings, like the enormously winning "Notes From a Small Island," about his rambles through Britain, Mr. Bryson presented himself as a sharp-eyed and hilariously self-deprecating observer, a traveler who was wry, eager and endlessly game.
Violent behaviour in prison was measured by institutional reports, inmate self-reports, observer ratings, or using psychometrically-valid scales.
Mussie's diet, according to self-proclaimed observer Donnie Humphries, consists at least partially of cattails found near the edge of the lake.
Based on self-assessment, observer assessment, and the measurement of epidermal water content, the gel performed significantly better than the liquid formulation.
Measurements will include self-reports, observer ratings, ecological momentary assessments (EMA) [ 32] and will include experimental investigations and the analysis of hair steroids in subsamples.
