Example Sentences

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In dialogue of a painful and self-diagnostic frankness, Welles looks at Jake’s fusion of creation and destruction, suffering and cruelty, frustration and wrath.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 2, 2018

To achieve today’s desirable veneer of innocence, the industry recommends a practice of constant, self-diagnostic work.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 2, 2016