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Wideman’s narrators “remain in close emotional contact with the cringing, the alienation, the clowning, the wariness, the self-mistrust and self-satire that came with growing up poor and Black in Pittsburgh,” our critic Dwight Garner writes.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2021

But they remain in close emotional contact with the cringing, the alienation, the clowning, the wariness, the self-mistrust and self-satire that came with growing up poor and Black in Pittsburgh.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2021

Such anguish may partake of various characters, having sometimes more the quality of loathing; sometimes that of irritation and exasperation; or again of self-mistrust and self-despair; or of suspicion, anxiety, trepidation, fear.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

All this is helping on our national pessimism and self-mistrust.

From Imaginations and Reveries by Russell, George William

The countryside in Ireland could blossom into as much beauty as the hillsides in mediaeval Italy if we could but get rid of our self-mistrust.

From Imaginations and Reveries by Russell, George William