Her difficulty seemed to be mainly self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
But then comes the great, crushing self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [John Gabriel Borkman] Reference
Self-pity and self-accusation make bitter desserts. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
Terenil asked, his voice rough with self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows]
She reported to Selenay in an agony of self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
Dismay flooded her, along with guilt and self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Purchased For Revenge]
I heard it beneath a chorus of relentless self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Remember Me, Irene] Reference
It was a memory that reeked of failure and self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference
A repelling self-accusation instantaneously overwhelmed her. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Now are you going to enjoy a long wallow in self-accusation?. From Wordnik.com. [Magic's Promise]
Thus self-accusation very often dissolves the closest friendship. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
Disclaimer: this is as much, or more, self-accusation as anything else. From Wordnik.com. [Fad Writing and Morality] Reference
At first I did not see the connection of my story with that self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
Do not put me on self-accusation, by carrying your generous sentiments too far. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
But it is not from grief or self-accusation that Faust is to gain new inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
The advice might vary each time, but the basic self-accusation is presumed sincere. From Wordnik.com. [Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral] Reference
Before that could bring a new spate of self-accusation, Pol shook his shoulder a little. From Wordnik.com. [Brightly Burning]
The mystery of his long sorrow dawned upon her, and his utter self-accusation appealed to her pity. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Yeah, guess I'll go to confession for writing that; after all, a little self-accusation never hurts. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
His agony of self-accusation is thus potentially curative, as it was for Leontes in The Winter's Tale. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
So it was just as she had guessed -- the girl had been attempting a daring bluff by her self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
But whatever the reason was, the time past of his life sufficed this man for silence and self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [John Knox] Reference
Sorry, and thanks for the self-accusation. 5 minutes outside the echo chamber. 1 hour on the wall of shame. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton: We Will "Totally Obliterate" Iran If They Attack Israel] Reference
When the thought first wormed its way into her head, Elizabeth passed from disappointment to self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
The reading of "Pep" diverted their minds from self-thought and self-accusation to faith-thought and courage. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
Rather than proceeding to describe her goodness, though, he hurries to justify the self-accusation of meanness. From Wordnik.com. [A Happy Marriage] Reference
He knew that his hour had come, but he obeyed the impulse which controlled him with an infinite self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Ramblingly and incoherently, with many breaks for tears and protestations and self-accusation, she told her story. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
Brabazon before her marriage, and that when she married, whatever my feelings might be, there was no self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [The Claverings] Reference
This belief, which seemed to prove how unjustly she had suspected Adeline, brought with it a pang of self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of the Forest] Reference
His self-accusation she considered exaggerations of a morbid fancy that converted common errors into unpardonable sins. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
Sometimes I have to undergo the doubly bitter self-accusation of having behaved in a manner which the world will call unfeminine. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
This is the character's line of thought, a self-accusation, not an authorial verdict, and he returns to it eagerly a little later. From Wordnik.com. [Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review)] Reference
He recalled, with the self-accusation of a repentant prodigal, his needlessly elaborate breakfast, the extravagance of the necktie. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
He was always honest in every thing concerning himself, and never spared self-accusation, often, when not understood, to his own injury. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
"I'm here," she said, and allowed the alacrity with which the riders parted to let her back in soothe her frustration and self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Pern, First Fall]
"I'm here, " she said, and allowed the alacrity with which the riders parted to let her back in soothe her frustration and self-accusation. From Wordnik.com. [First Fall]
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