He could not have done more, except score, and being as self-critical as he is, he might reflect on his one chance and chastise himself again. |
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She thinks that most girls, even those who consider themselves to be very successful, are very self-critical. |
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Reading back on that makes the self-critical side of me want to beat myself up with a metal rod. |
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Most languages have some self-critical locution, usually a wordplay or neologism, to indicate typical national defects. |
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The eerie stillness of the music and voice reflects the pensive, self-critical nature of the lyric. |
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A more self-critical person than me is difficult to imagine. |
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She was very self-critical and self-conscious about her appearance and actions. |
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The reporting has offered Finland an opportunity to assess the national human rights situation in a self-critical manner. |
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As the next generation of leaders, we must be willing to be self-critical if we wish to avoid becoming dogmatic. |
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My personal preference would be for adopting a more self-critical attitude. |
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So I think we should be a little self-critical as business people of whether we're driving hard enough. |
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I raise these things in terms of thinking that we have to be self-critical. |
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In Stockholm, we ought, in an open and self-critical way, to assess the progress made. |
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Young people take a self-critical standpoint to examine areas in which they are influenced and what contributes to their feelings of self-worth. |
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He wondered whether the United States and its accomplices would be ready to be self-critical and to save the Commission from discredit. |
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We should never fail to be self-critical and should prove our added value constantly. |
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Uphold decision-making that is participatory, inclusive, self-critical and democratic. |
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The Committee welcomes the submission of the second periodic report and commends the frank, analytical and self-critical nature of the report. |
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However, I do realise that it is important that we who represent the pan-European community in this field are self-critical. |
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He is shy, obsessive, self-critical to the point of parody, and liable to spontaneously combust when confronted by anyone who fails to meet his standards. |
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It'd be nice to hear sincere, self-critical reflections from you instead of the usual bombast. |
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Every line, both verbal and musical, is ambiguously literal and self-critical. |
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Notice if your body talk is negative, self-critical, objective or neutral. |
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To be self-critical for a moment, I think it's a bit blurry. |
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The passive-negative techniques can be said to identify a pessimistic, anxious, passive and self-critical stance, according to the authors of the study. |
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These fellas are hugely self-critical and sometimes they just need to relax, trust themselves and go out and play. |
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It was a tragedy that marked a generation by showing us that our allies are not always right and that all conflicts should be approached with a self-critical consciousness. |
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They cover becoming a critical reader and self-critical writer, developing an in-depth analysis, and putting critical reviews to work. |
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Within the scope of a constructive approach, which is self-critical due to its very nature, the Directors highlighted certain possible areas of improvement. |
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A number of delegations thanked the Russian Federation for the comprehensive national report and its open, self-critical and frank presentation and for the responses provided to some of the advance questions. |
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To this day I try to remember that when I am feeling particularly self-critical. |
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There is a need for us to be more critical and self-critical, and work in partnership with others to evaluate what we do, and improve on this in the future. |
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The Committee welcomes the detailed and comprehensive report of the State party, which in an open and self-critical manner addresses the different issues raised in the Committee's previous concluding observations. |
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They were thoughts he preferred to keep in the dark, but every now and then, in his most self-searching and self-critical moods, he might express them privately in letters to Ottoline. |
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While this can provide very useful information, the drawback is that the government may not be sufficiently self-critical or may try to paint a picture that is rosier than warranted. |
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I do not even call for a self-critical analysis, but merely for an objective analysis of what happened and how the outcome of those events should be viewed today. |
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But a forward-looking, problem-solving investigation needs to foster a climate in which officials can be self-critical without undue fear of being prosecuted or keelhauled. |
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We have heard self-critical remarks in this regard from the secretariat and hope that these will lead to constructive improvements for our future deliberations. |
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The trade union movement has to be profoundly self-critical, so that we can look at the reasons why our capacity for action and our capacity for striking and mobilisation have been so reduced. |
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The method is one of continual skepticism, self-critical and self-corrective, seeking data which are independently verifiable. |
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If the former, achieved with much self-critical struggle and countless revisions, are more monumental and awe-inspiring, the latter are more spontaneous, simple and natural. |
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Like Tchaikovsky, Brahms was often self-critical and self-doubting. |
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Certainly, Parliament is often touchingly united in criticising other institutions, but there is actually good reason for Parliament also to be self-critical. |
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The more self-critical you are, the more you push success away. |
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And he was in self-critical mood after cruising home 4-0 against Scholten. |
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He will turn around and say he is pleased with what he has done and he is staying or that, because he is very self-critical, that he is not happy. |
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Unlike at recent grands prix, it was not the downbeat, self-critical Hamilton that has been present at the last few races when he faced the press yesterday. |
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There is something there to satisfy and give happiness to every self-critical esthete who rejects orthodoxy and finds well-being only in intellectual rigour and in the desire to outdo oneself. |
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Some people say I'm too closemouthed and I don't give anyone a chance to know me, and others — such as you or my daughter — maintain that I'm self-critical as a ploy to keep their attention focussed on me. |
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Being outside the mainstream can give one distance and objectivity, often equipping the outsider with insights and a self-critical perceptiveness that eludes others. |
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