Example Sentences

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Throughout “Ocean Blvd,” an artist who arrived on the scene sounding like a nihilist is now searching and sincerely self-scrutinizing, sending earnest questions into a possible void.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023

It’s rigorously self-scrutinizing, dryly self-mocking, fairly stunned — somehow both unsentimental and consumed with love.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2022

And while Lamar does plenty of self-scrutinizing in his lyrics, he often comes across as an artist weighed down by the burden of his own greatness.

From Washington Post • Oct. 21, 2015

Today, in our self-scrutinizing, liberated time, these categories have got scrambled, and distinguishing between a charmingly revealing Instagram post and a bomb of oversharing requires daunting feats of judgment.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 9, 2015

Then she drew it back, and half closed her eyes in self-scrutinizing thought.

From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona