Example Sentences

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The bass pulses steadily; around it, Bernice’s singer and songwriter, Robin Dann, unfolds an analytical, self-dissecting love song, teetering between present and past: “He gave me something to think about,” she notes.

From New York Times • May 11, 2018

The self-dissecting words falling from Benedict Cumberbatch's lips transcended the cult of his celebrity.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2015

If you were going to get out of the self-dissecting business altogether though, why should you have brought the subject up at all to-night?

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

There is no surer sign of mental ill-health than a taste for lowering literature, an appetite for this self-dissecting, this complacent, self-contemplating form of intellectual exercise.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price