self-recognition

I wanted to edit out human frailty, get rid of the flaws that cause us to nod with self-recognition.

Brenda Wilhelmson: Alcoholic Fallout Brenda Wilhelmson 2011

I wanted to edit out human frailty, get rid of the flaws that cause us to nod with self-recognition.

Brenda Wilhelmson: Alcoholic Fallout Brenda Wilhelmson 2011

"Well researched with copious notes yet accessible to lay readers who will chuckle in self-recognition."

One Nation Under Dog by Michael Schaffer: Book summary 2010

And yet, something she said in her interview with Diane Sawyer this summer sparked a moment of self-recognition.

My Strange Addiction to QVC Jessica Pearce Rotondi 2011

Although I am aware that publicity for such a ceremony requiring traditional Jingle Dress attire would be inappropriate under normal circumstances, Mrs. Smith's intentions were not for self-recognition, but rather as an invitation to all POW/MIA family members and activists in an effort to encourage as many as possible to attend this event prayerfully as well.

Gerald Bluefeather Smith 2010

His account of these occasions is full of bitter self-reproach but also a helpless self-recognition – and the unsparingness of the professional writer.

Our parents resented us 2011

Such self-recognition has been linked to empathy and deception.

Carolyn Bucior: Fur Will Fly at First Scientific Conference on Animal Consciousness Carolyn Bucior 2012

Such self-recognition has been linked to empathy and deception.

Carolyn Bucior: Fur Will Fly at First Scientific Conference on Animal Consciousness Carolyn Bucior 2012

Kind of hard for a critic to say much beyond a chortle of self-recognition

Paul Klein: Breadth on View, Depth in Mind Paul Klein 2011

And yet, something she said in her interview with Diane Sawyer this summer sparked a moment of self-recognition.

My Strange Addiction to QVC Jessica Pearce Rotondi 2011