Noun : breast self-examination.    From Dictionary.com. 

I was just self-examining how diverse my list was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back again, but this time here to stay] Reference

KING: Did you like self-examining yourself that way?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 9, 2004] Reference

England had entered one of her uncertain, self-examining periods of nostalgia, looking back to the fin-de-siecle and Edwardian social certainties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing] Reference

How executive coaching, philanthropic advising, and other specialized services help the modern — and newly self-examining — CEO get through the day.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Lonely at the Top] Reference

Don't get me wrong; postmodernism is incredibly important and fundamental to understanding how people deal with our media-rich and self-examining society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeah, not so much] Reference

After my dad died, when she was living fairly comfortably on his pensions, my mom became much more vulnerable and self-examining, eventually converting to Lutheranism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Altar] Reference

At times they veered into name calling but then people agreed to speak more reasonably, and they're posting long, self-examining or nation examining essays, with few paragraph breaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dove's Eye View:] Reference

Carey gently presents Golding's lifelong weakness as the self-medication of "a deeply self-examining and self-blaming man who, as he said more than once, saw the seeds of all evil in his own heart.".    From Wordnik.com.  ["William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies'," by John Carey] Reference

Oh dear... you or at least I feel that the thoughtful self-examining person who wrote the essay has temporarily vanished; I am consumed by my personal horror at the idea of this poor child brought to poetry readings!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I've just raced through] Reference

It has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so hits all other men, and, as the country people say of good preaching, “comes bounce down into every pew.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncollected Prose] Reference

But yes: if a large part of white culture is predicated upon the sovereignty of the individual and small-governemnt, Big-C conversativism, then yeah, white culture - which even those of us who aren't 'white' are a part of - needs to do some self-examining.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monoculture Is Bad For Business - Anil Dash] Reference

With the news that CBC has begun self-examining for news bias, the question is how they will do it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Third Edge of the Sword] Reference

I suppose Mail Goggles is a prudent route to take for some folks who really aren't the self-examining type in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pogue's Posts] Reference

MariJo Moore, a versatile communicator of Cherokee ways, and the honest, self-examining author of "The Diamond Doorknob".    From Wordnik.com.  [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference

Britain has conducted itself in the world beyond the shores of Albion, for good as well as ill, is integral to the self-examining story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Through his self-examining narrative, Franklin points out the faults of his actions and interjects his thoughts to explain for his past behaviors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive U - The new media voice for students] Reference

Maybe some of the self-examining I do in music helps me relate to some of these self-examining diarists, even if I don't share their religious outlook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stereogum] Reference

In this self-examining manner, Franklin exhibits examples common to the characteristics of Rationalism, including reason, people's innate hospitality, and human progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Progressive U - The new media voice for students] Reference

It has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so hits all other men, and, as the country people say of good preaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present] Reference

When we are upon self-examining work, we had not need to be in a hurry, or have any distracting thoughts, but to retire and lock ourselves up in our closets, that we may be more intent upon the work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Commandments] Reference

Is that self-critical, self-examining quality he often brings to that "homestead built upon a graveyard" enough to enlighten the aspect of audience pandering of which his earlier films were often accused?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule] Reference

It has the merit which belongs to every honest book, that it was self-examining before it was eloquent, and so hits all other men, and, as the country people say of good preaching, "comes bounce down into every pew.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncollected Prose] Reference

All paths and all enquiries led him back to his conception of aristocracy, conscious, self-disciplined, devoted, self-examining yet secret, making no personal nor class pretences, as the supreme need not only of the individual but the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Research Magnificent] Reference

For his full-length debut, the enigmatic young Earle settled on a mix of vaudevillian debauchery and cheeky Texas swing, only occasionally slipping into the self-examining, singer-songwriter tones of his father Steve and his other namesake, Townes Van Zandt.    From Wordnik.com.  [NashvilleScene.com] Reference

In the end, he didn’t apologize or offer the first scent of an indication that he felt that, after giving his position some self-examining thought, that he’d perhaps come to see his deeply regards were the least inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Soldier's View of Peter Pace] Reference

KING: Are you self-examining a lot?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2003] Reference

It is a draining, self-examining exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane Wei Liang - An interview with author] Reference

Is the last one self-examining for breast cancer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [FEMALE MERITS » Sociological Images] Reference