self-contemplation
Americannoun
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For Roth, Portnoy set the template for all his work, the exquisite torture of literary self-contemplation.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2018
There is much food for self-contemplation on the part of the generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, and it’s a popular theme among British novelists born in the 1940s.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018
Author Mark Pendergrast said, “As our first technology for self-contemplation, the mirror is arguably as important an invention as the wheel and perhaps even more universal.”
From The Verge • Jan. 4, 2015
Who has defeated America such that any self-contemplation of the kind I suggest is warranted?
From Salon • May 26, 2013
Unmistakable as is the melancholy strain of these verses, they are not without a hopeful afterthought, in which the poet turns from self-contemplation to a view of a larger destiny.
From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Braun, Wilhelm Alfred
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