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  • noun A critique of oneself

Etymologies

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auto- +‎ critique

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Examples

  • Postgraduate study has a propensity to breeds trolls; in the worst cases, the mode of nitpicking critique (and autocritique) required by academic training turns people into permanent trolls, trolls who troll themselves, who transform their inability to commit to any position into a virtue, a sign of their maturity (opposed, in their minds, to the allegedly infantile attachments of The Fan).

    Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009

  • Postgraduate study has a propensity to breeds trolls; in the worst cases, the mode of nitpicking critique (and autocritique) required by academic training turns people into permanent trolls, trolls who troll themselves, who transform their inability to commit to any position into a virtue, a sign of their maturity (opposed, in their minds, to the allegedly infantile attachments of The Fan).

    Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • And, in their rather wonderful way, they pieced together an autocritique of their impasse.

    Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part Two 2010

  • The autocritique ends in a practical admission of failure ...

    GreenCine Daily: Exterminating Angels. 2007

  • Postgraduate study has a propensity to breeds trolls; in the worst cases, the mode of nitpicking critique (and autocritique) required by academic training turns people into permanent trolls, trolls who troll themselves, who transform their inability to commit to any position into a virtue, a sign of their maturity (opposed, in their minds, to the allegedly infantile attachments of The Fan).

    Other Links « Gerry Canavan 2009

  • The depth and intensity of Fante's autocritique are missing from writer-director Robert Towne's sexy, sensual, romantic, nostalgic adaptation of the novel, a labor of love he's been trying to realize for years -- he discovered the book while researching Chinatown, his most famous script.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The depth and intensity of Fante's autocritique are missing from writer-director Robert Towne's sexy, sensual, romantic, nostalgic adaptation of the novel, a labor of love he's been trying to realize for years -- he discovered the book while researching Chinatown, his most famous script.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The depth and intensity of Fante's autocritique are missing from writer-director Robert Towne's sexy, sensual, romantic, nostalgic adaptation of the novel, a labor of love he's been trying to realize for years -- he discovered the book while researching Chinatown, his most famous script.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • The autocritique ends in a practical admission of failure ...

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • To stop wringing its hands over poetry's lost popularity, that autocritique more stirring than any Maoist's.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

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