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Shaffer’s “Amadeus” adopts the same dynamic, although there the elderly, half-demented Salieri merely believes that he has killed Mozart—a self-accusatory metaphor for his poisonous intent.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

In it, Carrère depicts his spiritual journey and attendant confusions with a self-accusatory honesty that recalls both Saint Augustine’s “Confessions” and Dostoevsky’s “Notes From Underground.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2017

In “Sunset Strip” he also explains the self-immolation episode in a way that is, for him, notably self-accusatory.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2015

Indeed the protagonist, in finally conceding "I am the guilty party", is far more self-accusatory than any conventional Prospero.

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2011

His wife’s face, sodden with the six-hour self-accusatory depression which she had prophesied, manifested itself on the vidscreen.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick