Example Sentences

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His party, he said, needed to “ask itself self-critically why we are not benefiting in practice from such great dissatisfaction with the government.”

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023

That brief reflective process may open a space where you can consider the sources of your fatigue more self-critically.

From Scientific American • Nov. 14, 2022

Then I thought, ruefully, and self-critically: “But is it worth it?”

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2019

On the contrary, he admitted, self-critically, that his knowledge of the life in a henhouse was far from profound and asked for permission to study the welter of problems on the spot.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I could do much better if I had not to hurry it," she said, self-critically.

From By Wit of Woman by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)