self-examining

Whether it is or not, he is never going to know because he is not asking any self-examining questions about his impact on the lives he purports to save.

Jonathan Lewis: Three Empty Cups of Tea Jonathan Lewis 2011

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.

Monoculture Is Bad For Business - Anil Dash 2009

Whether it is or not, he is never going to know because he is not asking any self-examining questions about his impact on the lives he purports to save.

Jonathan Lewis: Three Empty Cups of Tea Jonathan Lewis 2011

John Carey's official biography, William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies 2009, was a scholarly, cool-headed examination of Golding's life and work that presented a "deeply self-examining and self-blaming man", frustrated and obsessed by his personal and professional failings.

The Children of Lovers by Judy Golding – review 2011

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."

"William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies'," by John Carey Wendy Smith 2010

England had entered one of her uncertain, self-examining periods of nostalgia, looking back to the fin-de-siecle and Edwardian social certainties.

Boing Boing 2008

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.

Altar Dodie Bellamy 2008

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.

Archive 2008-11-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008

The Guardian described Martha Wainwright as "wearingly needy, endlessly self-examining", which gives me a damn good reason not to have anything to do with her, but just look at that picture, would you?

A Rush of Blood to the Head Gordie 2008

I suppose, however, that most of us have a lot of self-examining to do before we see the last of this kind of comedy.

Stacy Parker Aab: Last Time I Checked, Rape Jokes Still Not Funny 2008