self-reckoning
- a word derived from reckoning.
Example Sentences
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Rather, it was the power of self-reckoning — the anguished, universal quest of Colston’s family drama — that was given thunderous voice in Reed-Foster’s performance.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2023
But his epiphany is also a moment of self-reckoning, as his oldest friendship - and his own unexamined past - are revealed in a devastating new light.
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2021
Ball Four” becomes, in these moments, a book of poignant self-reckoning and a love story about baseball itself.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2019
There’s a shield of mystery and myth that protects her, even in the middle of her very public self-reckoning.
From Washington Post • May 3, 2018
In The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, who would have turned 100 years old on Sunday, distilled all of these consternations, enabling in literature the self-reckoning that had been avoided in reality.
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2017
