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Sometimes the self-accusing stuff is also silly stuff; at other times it is gorgeous and heartbreaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2018

It is Maitland's tormented hallucination, and the play's device, that he is in a spectral dock on trial on a self-accusing charge�that his life has become an obscenity.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the self-accusing charge of having made his existence an obscenity, this anti-hero sits in a prisoner's dock watching his life pass like a funeral cortege.

From Time Magazine Archive

With each succeeding week, my Sunday services became more burdensome, more perfunctory, more unsatisfactory, more self-accusing.

From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Edson, Milan C.

But here the Major closed her self-accusing lips awhile.

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Farnol, Jeffery