Example Sentences

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While it’s nice that viewers can reclaim the Marnie title and own their egos, perhaps it’s not Marnie that we should be modeling ourselves on at all, but rather, Williams’ level-headed conviction and self-scrutiny.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2025

Might it be a timely exercise in self-scrutiny to try to understand how that transpired?

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2023

In the less successful “And So We Come Forth,” the subject of racial division sets the conversational self-scrutiny in motion.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2020

It represented a visible sign that we remained a great and confident republic committed to self-scrutiny and clean government.

From Washington Post • May 21, 2020

Ah, yes! youth, and romance linked with a self-scrutiny born of her New England ancestry if not of her father's Celtic blood, had brought Sheila Macklin to her dreadful pass.

From Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod by Owen, R. Emmett (Robert Emmett)