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

Many of the ensuing crises have stemmed from a distinct lack of self-scrutiny in our relationship with technology — our skill at creation and rush to adoption having outstripped our consideration of what happens next.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2022

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

If I suppose that mere self-scrutiny can show me that, I deceive myself; and my deeds, good and evil, will undeceive me.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil