Sentence examples for self-examining from inspiring English sources
The word 'self-examining' is correct and can be used in written English
It is an adjective that describes the act of examining or analyzing oneself or one's own thoughts, behaviors, or actions. Example: She went through a period of self-examining after her divorce, trying to understand what went wrong in her marriage.
John Carey's official biography, William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies (2009), was a scholarly, cool-headed examination of Golding's life and work that presented a "deeply self-examining and self-blaming man", frustrated and obsessed by his personal and professional failings.
It is big on self-examining tracks about the isolating effects of fame: there is a great deal of talk about screaming in hotel rooms.
It's true that both works, especially "The Idiot Variations," are steeped in the self-examining self-consciousness that is the current hallmark of intellectually fashionable art and literature.
My former professor and friend, the late Gilberto Perez, likened Hong's films to those of Jean Eustache — in particular, "The Mother and the Whore," for its self-examining yet self-deprecating view of an urban intellectual in romantic crisis.
One trades on babes and bad jokes and goes down well with a beer or two or three; the other represents Broadway's valentine to its self-examining, increasingly hermetic self.
Golding could remember his father touching him only twice in his life.No wonder he developed odd notions about women (poor, soft, cleft creatures) or that he grew inward and self-examining.
Others are angry, funny, obsessive notes to self, examining race, racism, her own racism, her rejection of it and her dependence on it from many angles and various personas.
Tell them how to breast self-examine.
He has talked about himself, about his life, in discrete pieces, inhabiting imaginary characters ("experimental selves"), examining our human discomfort and trying to discover a way out.
Last month saw the release of a Twitter-connected bra, that tweeted every time it was unhooked to encourage women to self-examine their breasts.
On whether government regulators are doing what's needed: People will question, say, the bailout of Bear Stearns, and that is a very important part of our process in the U. S. action is taken and we self-examine.
