How to Use self-hatred in a Sentence
self-hatred
noun-
There’s a level of self-hatred there that is so profound.
— Mark Hertsgaard, TIME, 7 May 2024 -
Obama’s critics have cast all of this as naiveté, weakness, or self-hatred.
— Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2017 -
There’s a lot of self-hatred buried deep in the character, and excavating that is one of the many levels on which the movie succeeds.
— Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023 -
The film is rife with metaphors about women in Hollywood, the cruelty of age and the repercussions of self-hatred.
— Matt Donnelly, Variety, 19 May 2024 -
This feeling of self-hatred intensifies every year, around this time, when the sun starts coming out.
— Tom Rasmussen, refinery29.com, 2 Jan. 2024 -
There are lots of ways that Spider can be read as a metaphor—for depression, terror, self-hatred—but this is a story with a lot of very concrete action.
— Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024 -
Imposter syndrome had stiff competition against my self-hatred at that point.
— Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023 -
If her life with her kids had been chaotic, hustling to survive in the pill mill economy and dealing with multiple arrests, her life without them was a black hole of shame and self-hatred.
— Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023 -
How to Blow Up a Pipeline is only notable for exposing Western media’s self-hatred.
— Armond White, National Review, 14 Apr. 2023 -
Zubrin notes, some of these folks are so filled with self-hatred that their real objective is to remove other human beings from the Earth or at least make their lives as short, dark, and miserable as possible.
— Greg Autry, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023 -
Sakuzo wanders — begging for change, cadging meals, working to conquer his homesickness and self-hatred — are every bit as Angeleno as Chandler’s and West’s.
— Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023 -
This includes feeling overwhelmed, pessimistic, letting emotions control you, self-hatred and building walls between yourself and others.
— Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024 -
Larry David — the character — is essentially merry, quintessentially secure, and startlingly untroubled by self-hatred to the very end.
— Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024 -
As an openly gay man, to submit to this kind of typecasting brings up feelings of self-hatred and internalized homophobia, and Armendáriz doesn’t want his wrestling persona to have ties to society’s negative views on his sexuality.
— Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2023 -
Many African writers accused him of cynicism or even self-hatred, though later generations would praise him for asserting literature’s independence from nativism.
— Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023 -
Classmates’ comments and media representations of women discipline her into heartbreaking shame and self-hatred.
— Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2024
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