self-observation

Example Sentences

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He was testing how far the stage could rival the short story, his other main artistic outlet, as a medium of self-observation and subtle epiphany.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023

“To be reintroduced to her world with such detail and such a brilliant sense of self-observation, so many years later, was really shocking.”

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2022

The narcissism of self-observation has been turned into observation of another human being, and that, in turn, has been directed outward to observation of the world.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

“The effective methods still demand self-observation by women,” she says.

From Slate • Sep. 19, 2018

But it is clear to him that we can learn very little about the feelings, and nothing at all about the intellect, by self-observation.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart