self-loathing

• “It's called self-loathing, and partly explains why it's such an angry country.”

  The Guardian: Endless sprawl of fixtures fills cups with thin gruel and a bad taste | Paul Hayward

• “As always you're going to be shoving your way through a crowded mall or avenue with a bunch of other hapless self-loathing procrastinators, hauling bags of illogical gifts seemingly picked at random.”

  The Wall Street Journal: It's a Holly Jolly Football Schedule

• “The worst thing about all this is the self-loathing and crippling fear that underscores this whole situation.”

  The Huffington Post: Pat LaMarche: Music Ending for Homeless Composer

• “Thereafter, the emergence of prohibited emotion is experienced as a failure to embody the required ideal, an exposure of the underlying essential defectiveness or badness, and is accompanied by feelings of isolation, shame and self-loathing.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert D. Stolorow: What Is Character and How Does it Change?

• “New theory: The world has been secretly filled with a huge number of closet Star Trek fans all this time, all waiting for the right moment to shed their self-loathing and strut their stuff in public.”

  Outed « Gerry Canavan

• “Maybe you feel a little self-loathing too, as if you gave up on a new year's resolution you'd really hoped would stick.”

  WRITING QUESTION: WRITER'S BLOCK

• “On the other hand, it can result in self-loathing and suicidal fantasy, and that appears to be what we have in Avatar.”

  Movie Review: Avatar

• “It was always accompanied with self-loathing and vows to never binge again.”

  The Mind and Eating Disorders « Colleen Anderson

• “It crackles with that peculiar mixture of ebullience and self-loathing that galvanises Ackroyd's resurrection of the past.”

  The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: Summary and book reviews of The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd.

• “It's understandable, but a gravely simplifying loyalty and trust, if so, because misogyny is something that all of us can struggle with or exhibit -- whether male or female women engage in women-hating, self-loathing, and sexuality-hating behaviors, too, and whether liberal or conservative.”

  The Huffington Post: Pamela Haag, Ph.D.: Remember When Liberals Were Feminists?

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