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Paperwork aside, it is the tale of one woman’s self-damning inability to tell her own story.

From Slate • May 3, 2013

Only a decade ago, he withdrew from the primaries with one of the most self-damning confessions in recent political memory: "I do not have the overwhelming desire to be President."

From Time Magazine Archive

Testifying to the staff of Senator Sam Ervin's committee in private, Dean found that his words�some self-damning, some damaging to the President�leaked out and were carried across the nation.

From Time Magazine Archive

How sad and self-damning the bitter railing of His enemies in the light of that serene dignity.

From Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals by Cope, Henry Frederick

Such is the sum of the Spanish accounts,—the self-damning testimony of the author and abettors of the crime.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 by Various