self-revealing
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of self-revealing
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Viewers rated the Facebook users on average as having lower self-esteem and being more self-revealing, for example, than the users rated themselves.
From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024
Underpinned by an intimate, self-revealing aesthetic, she fluidly navigates from sweaty group class to phone screen to ambitious project — dance is her public palliative for physical and emotional upheaval.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022
Wynn’s mission mirrors our technological, gender-restless, self-revealing culture.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2019
Moore never directly mentions that moment of dark prescience in “The Terms of My Surrender,” which despite its overly self-revealing title obeys the Broadway dictum to send the audience home feeling good.
From Salon • Aug. 12, 2017
In this story, as in all Mary Shelley's writing, there is much that is autobiographical: it would be hard to find a more self-revealing work.
From Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
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