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This could lead to guilty feelings or self-recrimination.
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Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2024
Bush administration officials could have responded to the attacks with chagrin and self-recrimination, conceding (at least tacitly) that their initial national security priorities had been incorrect.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2017
Wynonna returned for the night’s final song, exhaling the anguish and absolving herself of the self-recriminations that loving someone who will never do you right incurs.
—Holly Gleason, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024
So, too, did self-recriminations from Blake Lively and others online who had made jokes at her expense.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
Become a Subscriber The books below, by contrast, are honest about the difficult emotional realities that accompany personal growth—discouragement, self-recrimination, fear of the unknown—and still offer hope.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2024
Meanwhile, Burton stands on a precipice, a man in a blaze of self-recrimination, both in the film and in his own life.
—Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
Even following this final defeat, Napoleon remains steadfast in his disdain for self-recrimination, blaming the men under his command for being unable to correctly execute his orders.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
This is also a movie about the complex nature of family love, and how even the strongest bonds can become entwined with regrets and self-recrimination.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Aug. 2023
Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 27 Oct. 2024
Bush administration officials could have responded to the attacks with chagrin and self-recrimination, conceding (at least tacitly) that their initial national security priorities had been incorrect.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 5 July 2017
Wynonna returned for the night’s final song, exhaling the anguish and absolving herself of the self-recriminations that loving someone who will never do you right incurs.
—Holly Gleason, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024
So, too, did self-recriminations from Blake Lively and others online who had made jokes at her expense.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
Become a Subscriber The books below, by contrast, are honest about the difficult emotional realities that accompany personal growth—discouragement, self-recrimination, fear of the unknown—and still offer hope.
—Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2024
Meanwhile, Burton stands on a precipice, a man in a blaze of self-recrimination, both in the film and in his own life.
—Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
Even following this final defeat, Napoleon remains steadfast in his disdain for self-recrimination, blaming the men under his command for being unable to correctly execute his orders.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
This is also a movie about the complex nature of family love, and how even the strongest bonds can become entwined with regrets and self-recrimination.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Aug. 2023
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