What a dramatic example of self-criticism, I said.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Suissa: A Flotilla for Gilad Shalit] Reference

Meaningful change comes from honest self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call To Arms For Pakistan] Reference

Much of this self-criticism has had a healthy effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

We have been undergoing self-doubts and self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference

Yet behind his self-criticism there was something more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger in the Smoke]

With his relentless self-criticism, Kerry crammed harder.    From Wordnik.com.  [TALKING THE TALK] Reference

But let us be carried away by no mania for self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference

Pressing problems are being met in a spirit of self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Conspiracy] Reference

However, his greatest talent may actually be for self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feeling Flush in Flushing] Reference

For sure, I feel that I belong to a tradition of self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Gideon Levy: The Most Hated Man in Israel -- and the Most Heroic] Reference

I'll give you a small example, which is self-criticism in a way.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2002] Reference

How can other people's praise make up for our own self-criticism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isha Judd: Finding True Freedom] Reference

I almost lost myself during that period of extreme self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart-Shaped Box] Reference

And that is achieved through constant criticism and self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 19, 2006] Reference

In other fields, we hope to attain to a capacity for self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

In October 1966 Deng was forced to make a humiliating self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deng's Revolution] Reference

I declare summer to be a critic-free zone, and that includes self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Paean to the Music of Summer] Reference

But democracies, by their very nature, invite self-criticism and improvement.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Harris: To the Chorus of Chronic, Compulsive Critics of Israel] Reference

It's tempting to be self-critical, but self-criticism can become self-indulgence.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Crash, a Crashing Bore] Reference

"You're worrying about your obsessive degree of self-criticism again," whines Me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want to write, get threatened] Reference

Old-fashioned "self-criticism and criticism" sessions are also part of the agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of the Party] Reference

When again would a broadcast star submit himself to Cronkite's brand of self-criticism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968 the Year that Rocked the World]

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Declaration of Conscience"] Reference

But I think I recall one saying, that is we should have both criticism and self-criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks By The President At Beijing University] Reference

The days of honest labor and study, the earnest self-criticism and self-examination, were gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

Through a process of improvisation and self-criticism a performance is constructed and rehearsed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

In the spirit of self-criticism, I share with you my assessment of my own First 100 Days of Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Report Card] Reference

Unfortunately, it's in the numerous passages of self-criticism that the good doctor is least appealing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor To The Hopeless] Reference

What seems especially peculiar is the absence of any track of self-criticism by the left wing in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Globally Green] Reference

It's the cause of reason against unreason, of self-criticism against the firm convictions of fanaticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowland: Untrue Believers] Reference

Indeed, so far as I can tell, economists have not engaged in rigorous self-criticism to explain their lapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Economists Out to Lunch] Reference

But where Mr. Okrent's in-house criticism was part chiding, part observational, the report's self-criticism seems abject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off the Record] Reference

But it wasn't in my household for long: using it landed me in a self-criticism session on the danger of bourgeois habits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Safety In Shopping] Reference

Yet we also see the appeal of an approach that combines honest self-criticism with taking the judicious measure of one's foe.    From Wordnik.com.  [[em]Observer[/em] Softball Report: What If 9-0 Never Happened?] Reference

If you want to help the world, America -- as you must because of your leadership position -- try some self-criticism for a change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

Well, thankfully that self-criticism did not end up in a full blown depression, tho i didnt start to feel better until i started working.    From Wordnik.com.  [wench77 Diary Entry] Reference