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Recent Examples of self-loathing
The reverse camera angle compounds my self-loathing.
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Alan Shearer, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
More than anything, the movie gives you a portrait of the artist as an open wound, with self-mythologizing masquerading as self-loathing and self-deprecation taken to uncomfortable extremes.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2024
From the beginning, Shrinking has always framed Jimmy’s obsession with healing his patients as a sort of drug, a way of distracting himself from the grief and self-loathing gnawing at him in the background.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Turning self-loathing into material is one of the things that keeps Glaser alive.
—Anna Peele, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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Alan Shearer, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
More than anything, the movie gives you a portrait of the artist as an open wound, with self-mythologizing masquerading as self-loathing and self-deprecation taken to uncomfortable extremes.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2024
From the beginning, Shrinking has always framed Jimmy’s obsession with healing his patients as a sort of drug, a way of distracting himself from the grief and self-loathing gnawing at him in the background.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
Turning self-loathing into material is one of the things that keeps Glaser alive.
—Anna Peele, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for self-loathing
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In a movie that seems to insist that self-hate is just part of life, Kidman’s alluringly impulsive, tragically romantic Charlotte almost escapes that nihilism … almost. 9.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
3 Jan. 2025
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There was some internal kind of self-hate, cultural hate in some ways.—
Julissa James,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Oct. 2024
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The memory comes to me sometimes, out of the blue, crawling into my brain and filling it with self-disgust all over again.—
Alan Shearer,
The Athletic,
27 Dec. 2024
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Shakespeare was a master of depicting the kinds of universal experiences — lust, betrayal, self-disgust, fear — that might preoccupy a young literary-minded student.—
Talya Zax,
Washington Post,
26 June 2024
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Between the sticks - Bayern seem reluctant to retire Neuer but this diffidence is helping no one.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
7 Jan. 2025
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At its best, the uncomfortably intimate aesthetic of the films combined with the general diffidence at their heart attempted to epitomize a generational temperament and linguistic sensibility.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
14 Aug. 2024
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Those impossible beauty standards, the constant self-doubt, unhealthy coping mechanisms, and materialistic desires are some of the other examples of what people say goodbye to in their thirties.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
12 Jan. 2025
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Holker opens up about navigating grief, supporting their three children, and discovering that beneath Boss’s infectious joy lay hidden struggles with addiction and self-doubt.—
Jenzia Burgos,
StyleCaster,
11 Jan. 2025
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To date, most sales efforts have focused on the urgency surrounding global warming, an appeal to investors and buyers’ altruism or the threat of bad PR.—
Jamil Wyne,
Forbes,
14 Jan. 2025
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Perhaps more than any single post-World War II president, Carter changed the way many saw the U.S. by attempting to inject American values of altruism, democracy and human rights into foreign policy.—
Tracy Wilkinson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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In some instances, this approach will give heirs time to develop the patience, knowledge and humility to handle a sudden influx of cash responsibly.—
Rory O'Hara,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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President-elect Donald Trump is the polar opposite, lacking any of the qualities including the integrity, goodness and humility that Carter possessed.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Self-loathing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-loathing. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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