self-examination

Those who come to the Dinner Party are self-selecting; they do want to talk about it.

Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

At present, Louis was too self-absorbed by the struggles within him, to look deep into what was passing around him.

Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.