The back covers in particular caught my self-reflexive eye. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
Except, of course, for the fact that plants are not self-reflexive. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
I think you've found a way to criticize yourself with your self-reflexive bloviating. From Wordnik.com. [RNC Hiring Rove Protege To Dig Oppo Research On Obama] Reference
Everything in ths book is postmodernishly self-reflexive, not just the obvious stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference
I truly do represent self-reflexive dorkiness, and the quirkiness can be cute, I think. From Wordnik.com. [One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited] Reference
That is, as the next section discusses, Kant views reason as essentially self-reflexive. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Account of Reason] Reference
Here the second-person perspective has a special and self-reflexive status for criticism. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Theory] Reference
A bit deep, huh, but then, sometimes fortune cookies are, in their own self-reflexive way. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
The media's tortured drama featuring missing white children is now a self-reflexive ritual. From Wordnik.com. [Richard M. Benjamin: Have You Seen Me? America's Fever Over Lost White Children] Reference
There are wheels within wheels in this brilliantly self-reflexive anatomy of the movie business. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Blood 'In The Badlands] Reference
A writer writing about a writer writing about writing, how much more self-reflexive can it all become?. From Wordnik.com. [46 entries from January 2008] Reference
My self, that is to say, is not so much a thing, as it is a mass of self-reflexive, loopy patternings. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
"How I wonder" (2) is an exclamation, a self-reflexive remark that draws attention to wondering in itself. From Wordnik.com. ['Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' as an Ambient Poem; a Study of a Dialectical Image; with Some Remarks on Coleridge and Wordsworth] Reference
These include, first, the connection between consciousness and self-directed or self-reflexive intentionality. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness and Intentionality] Reference
Hmm, i didn't see anything more self-reflexive in that story than i do in most stories of that subject and style. From Wordnik.com. [Dear James Franco] Reference
I encouraged them to be self-reflexive, identifying areas where they were excelling and where they could improve. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Steven Friedman: Don't Negotiate When You Are Not in a Negotiation] Reference
More self-reflexive authorial intrusion but of the highest quality as life is breathed into a character from nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday Confessions] Reference
The movement into F5 ages 12-adulthood, if it occurs at all, when successful, allows the self-reflexive ego to emerge. From Wordnik.com. [Cognitive vs. Jungian: Comparing Therapies for the Rule/Role Developmental Stage] Reference
Might we not find in the massively self-reflexive web of the poem something besides strong theory and its discontents?. From Wordnik.com. [_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism] Reference
I have chosen the example purely for its, almost self-reflexive, discussion about the circumstances of its own creation. From Wordnik.com. [Poetic Machines 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Today the New York Times ran a big article, with the bizarrely self-reflexive headline, "Hushed worry about Obama's safety.". From Wordnik.com. [Gray Lady [NY Times] hushes up SS breakdown in Dallas] Reference
The only character I had any interest or belief in was Ori and it's not as if self-reflexive Angry Young Men aren't ten-a-penny. From Wordnik.com. [Slow Train Coming] Reference
A fully literate citizen is at once critically self-reflexive and critically reflexive of his/her collective and position within it. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding Digital Citizenship « open thinking] Reference
To make him a salesman or a detective or a barber would have been an insult to the show's delicate but dogged self-reflexive reality. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 5/2.] Reference
It's a sort of easy self-reflexive idea for a quiz, to get them to think about what they've learned and start putting things together. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
"Alastor" presents this frame-shattering self-reflexive loop at all levels, from its narrative framework through the minutiae of style. From Wordnik.com. [_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism] Reference
It's because literary study has become a self-reflexive discipline, a course of study about literary study, not about literature as such. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Study] Reference
This is the sort of self-sensitive, self-reflexive, self-basting, circle-jerk slop we thought even Spike Jonze had left behind years ago. From Wordnik.com. [Must Watch: Edward Norton's Leaves of Grass Official Trailer « FirstShowing.net] Reference
But I also don't believe that most of us, even the most self-reflexive of us, possess full self-awareness about our performance in the classroom. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
Really, the Deitch show is a somewhat more self-reflexive example of the trickle down nepotism we have come to expect from intergenerational encounters in the arts. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Gorin: Deitch Projects Showcases Emerging Artists in Long Island City] Reference
Alex: Anything is possible with Godard's many literary and philosophical references, but I think the immediate reference for the title is likely a self-reflexive one. From Wordnik.com. [JLG/JLG: autoportrait de décembre] Reference
John Jurgensen This, of course, could be another of Mr. Tarantino's endlessly self-reflexive jokes-within-jokes, but it might also be his way of playing both sides of the street. From Wordnik.com. [The War That Never Ends] Reference
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