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Even if his account of Haskell’s “heart attack” is true, there is something self-condemning about how easily he assumes other people – including the police – will think the worst.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2020

The self-condemning new voung monarch is suddenly self-reformed, is indeed a little holier-than-thou, and a great deal royaler, as he moves forward toward what, in Henry V, will be Shakespeare's most blazing success story.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was impossible that even a woman whose home had been desecrated, as hers had been, would invent a lie so self-condemning.

From For the Term of His Natural Life by Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

He could not judge whether the self-condemning words were the promptings of a guilty conscience, or the ravings of an unbalanced mind.

From The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Houghton, Eliza Poor Donner

This structure, solemnly dedicated to their God, they entered, and there received their anointings and their blessings; then they abandoned it to the desecration and self-condemning outrages of their foes.

From The Story of "Mormonism" by Talmage, James Edward