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Compared with Mr. Garrel's greatest films—poetic if self-lacerating character studies like "I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar"—this is grandiose fluff.
Sad Sacks and Barrels of Laughs Steve Dollar 2012
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Moreover, there are three fine performances, of which Henry Goodman's David is superlative—not self-hating, but self-lacerating, misremembering, deeply loving, though capable of aggression.
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Turbulent Family Life Paul Levy 2011
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Rodney Crowell's memoir of his boyhood in southeast Texas is a wonder: wistful and profane, heartbreaking and hilarious, loving and angry, proud and self-lacerating.
Childhood in a minor key Jonathan Yardley 2011
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As far as I can tell my fiction for adults and for children is driven by the same voice: unreliable, woolgathery, self-lacerating and romantic in spite of itself.
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It's an obsession of the comedian who's been dubbed "the Prince of Pain" for his hilariously self-lacerating material: Never tell the same joke twice.
Marshall Fine: Richard Lewis: Greetings From Hell Marshall Fine 2011
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Rodney Crowell's memoir of his boyhood in southeast Texas is a wonder: wistful and profane, heartbreaking and hilarious, loving and angry, proud and self-lacerating.
Childhood in a minor key Jonathan Yardley 2011
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But an effective production can overcome at least some of these problems, and this one is up to the mark, not least because Mr. Gold has fielded a top-of-the-line cast led by Matthew Rhys, who is so exciting as Jimmy Porter, Mr. Osborne's antihero and alter ego, that you'll likely be inclined to take his self-lacerating anger for granted rather than trying to puzzle out its source.
Still Angry After All These Years Terry Teachout 2012
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As far as I can tell my fiction for adults and for children is driven by the same voice: unreliable, woolgathery, self-lacerating and romantic in spite of itself.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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They are the ones that made presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon pass on to their successors in the presidency the draining and self-lacerating Vietnam War.
One Term President? New York Review Blog By Garry Wills 2010
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They are the ones that made presidents Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon pass on to their successors in the presidency the draining and self-lacerating Vietnam War.
One Term President? New York Review Blog By Garry Wills 2010
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