Sentence examples for self-warning from inspiring English sources
"self-warning" is a correct and usable expression in written English
It can be used when you want to indicate a warning or caution that a person has given to themselves. For example: "Tom took a self-warning not to make the same mistake again."
The made-up quote from the imaginary Count warns the audience that the play will be about combat and struggle, while it serves as an unconscious self-warning on the part of the character, who has fought, killed and been wounded - but with only the dimmest awareness of the fact.
It also contains an interesting note of self-warning: William's mother tells him that "I'd better be careful because I was a bullshitter and that there was no sadder creature on the planet than a handsome bullshitter, because everything came easy for them and they never did a damn thing with any of it".
During her third bout of influenza, something begins to leak through to Ursula from those other selves, warning her, making her feel an incoherent dread, turning her into an odd little person, dreamy and haunted.
Through such aperçus and vignettes, Mr. Meyer identifies the booby traps of imperial self-delusion, warning against the Asian heartland as a "temptation to be resisted".
Essentially the story is a self-righteous warning against ambition, and it is enlivened only by the brief descriptions of the erotic thrill Mr Chops enjoys while sitting on a barrel organ.
Particularly in his most recent run on British TV, his self-awareness (warning the younger Big Brother contestants to stay away from plastic surgery and pointing to his own face) made him more loveable still.
A signal processing circuit diagram of a complete self-securing warning system which can be triggered by an increased voltage signal is shown in Fig. 11g.
We noted that the iPhone admits its own heat problems, using the whimsical and self-referential warning screen you see here (slightly modified for this story's circumstances) but I doubt that'd get Apple off the hook if a few more of these things blow up.
To the world at large, it's the death of Billie Joe Armstrong's own future, "Somebody shot the baby seer" and "Baby, baby eyes was born to kill," a self-deprecating warning he's beyond redemption and will pull everybody down with him.
Chanos ended the panel by quoting a French economist he had spoken to recently as warning, "Self-regulation is to regulation as self-importance is to importance," which drew laughs from the crowd.
Along with the pleasures of Bradlee's memoir are the moments of self-recognition and warning.
