(n.) A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.
Example Sentences:
(1) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
(2) To a generation of young Germans, raised under the crushing, introspective guilt of postwar Germany , the sight of such facile antics was simply incomprehensible.
(3) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
(4) Man of Steel gets three stars from him, thanks largely to an opening section that "creates a plausible context for the introspection and self-doubt that dogs the adult version of [this] costumed warrior".
(5) There is a striking amount of national introspection in a hearteningly vibrant press.
(6) The people of Australia are sick to death of this introspection when there are very important, significant issues in constituencies like mine.
(7) While O'Dwyer's defence portrayed him as the vulnerable, introspective young man whose promising career would be derailed by extradition, prosecutors contend he is a skilled businessman who made large sums of money from a website he knew was profiting from pirated material.
(8) Academic medicine is entering a period of introspection created by changing patterns of health and disease and changing patterns in reimbursement and health policy.
(9) The first Labour MP I spoke to today put it well: “As our standing and his standing has got worse, Labour MPs talk of little else.” Party introspection, angst and fear were always on the cards for this period – it just wasn’t meant to be Labour that would suffer.
(10) South Africans have undergone sombre introspection of late with the economy slowing, unemployment sky highand, worst of all, violent unrest that included the killing of workers at the Lonmin platinum mine in August.
(11) Pharmacists can grow in a current or second career by using introspection and self-assessment and by adapting to changes that occur in the profession.
(12) Ex-HSBC banker denies fraud charges brought in US Snowden endorses phone case warning system Whistleblower Edward Snowden has endorsed a mobile phone case called the “introspection engine” that, he claims, will show when data is being monitored.
(13) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
(14) Michael Cavanagh, the JP Morgan executive who conducted the bank's internal investigation, opened his testimony by proudly noting that the bank had engaged in "introspection" and was "determined to be a better company because of this experience".
(15) This approach focuses on the "only or never" phenomenon, the parallel process, and introspective curiosity as modes of identifying the existence of countertransference responses.
(16) He stressed three essentials to meeting the future: an effective and introspective organization; ample participation by the membership of the specialty; and a plan.
(17) The results are interpreted through the theory of memory introspection proposed by Herrmann.
(18) This superposition of introspection and austere secrecy, of simplicity and opacity, is not new.
(19) It includes introspective consciousness of introspective consciousness itself.
(20) Steeped in introspection, ambiguity and a total lack of plausible strategic sense, the Corbynistas aren’t going anywhere.
Narcissism
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) His recent play was about a young man exploring his eastern European Jewish heritage – "narcissism dressed up as history" is how Eisenberg dismisses this personal interest of his – and he has specialised in playing nervy, nerdy characters.
(2) Using various self-report indices of these constructs we found that (a) defensive self-enhancement is composed of two orthogonal components: grandiosity and social desirability; (b) grandiosity and social desirability independently predict self-esteem and may represent distinct confounds in the measurement of self-esteem, (c) narcissism is positively related to grandiose self-enhancement (as opposed to social desirability), (d) narcissism is positively associated with both defensive and nondefensive self-esteem, and (e) authority, self-sufficiency, and vanity are the narcissistic elements most indicative of nondefensive self-esteem.
(3) A narcissic fragility and organizing troubles are remaining present and are the origin of an intense strain on the mind.
(4) The resulting 49-item CPI and 39-item MMPI scales correlated .81 with each other, and significantly so at p less than .01 with ratings of narcissism, the Raskin-Hall Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and the MMPI Narcissism scale of Morey, Waugh, and Blashfield.
(5) According to attorney general Arely Gómez, his narcissism knew no limits and he wanted to take his fame further, to the silver screen in the form of a biopic.
(6) In June, just as Friendship was being published in the US, a blowhard critic named Edward Champion took her to task in an 11,000-word blog post titled “Emily Gould, Literary Narcissism, and the Middling Millennials” , in which his principal beef appeared to be that Gould was a woman and not James Baldwin.
(7) Relating the aggressive instinct to narcissism and the sexual instinct to perversion, two modes of functioning are presented which have some points in common and some diverging but which show the dynamics involved in physical and sexual abuse.
(8) In recent years there has been growing conceptual interest in narcissism, coupled with the rapid development of several paper and pencil measures.
(9) Clinical examples are presented to show the importance of an excessive sense of entitlement--related to narcissism--as it appears in psychotherapy or psychoanalysis; yet it is also visible culturally and politically.
(10) It is a world away from untrammelled narcissism, of which the maverick finance minister has been accused.
(11) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(12) It traces the major changes in the general theory that have relevance for the concept of narcissism.
(13) Then the first (and for Freud most important) narcissism concept is represented, narcissism as a mode of object relation and a type of object choice.
(14) But if this charge of narcissism of small differences has any purchase when directed at Assange, it can be levelled too against O'Hagan, who largely ignores the bigger issues about which Assange and WikiLeaks have consistently sounded alarm.
(15) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
(16) It is the latter which constitutes the study of narcissism.
(17) Level of narcissism was assessed utilizing Exner's (1973) Self-Focus Sentence Completion Test.
(18) Giles Swayne London • "Intelligent" Boris Johnson commits the age-old folly of mistaking good fortune, selfishness, narcissism and aggression for intelligence, but unwittingly demonstrates the wrongness of his position.
(19) Narcissism has been a perennial topic for psychoanalytic papers since Freud's 'On narcissism: An introduction' (1914).
(20) Instead, her defences were overwhelmed by a frenzy of blogging, narcissism and sniping from the worldwide web.