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TV Guide Magazine: Your meta episodes usually contain plenty of self-reverential humor as well as peril.
Supernatural's Ultimate Meta Episode: Sam and Dean Become Jared and Jensen 2011
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Theroux summarizes it as 'pages and pages … most of it self-reverential.'
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008
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Add the self-reverential celebrity-worshipping Oprah to the mix, stir in some young women who have no clue how women of Hillary's generation paved the way for their reproductive and workplace rights, plus an unfortunate Bush-Clinton-Bush-Bush oligarchy, and we find ourselves in the situation we're in: a neophyte Democratic candidate who is as deep in the pockets of corporate interests and their criminal cronies as McCain or Clinton, yet infinitely less electable.
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What is wrong, is when products become self-referencing and self-reverential and the author plays along, pretending that because it's in a 'book' it is something other than rank advertising.
Devil's Advocate lili 2008
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An assumed air of supposed wholesome friendliness and honesty which actually conceals self-reverential smugness.
Sarah Brown must be stopped or I will be ill Alix Mortimer 2009
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An assumed air of supposed wholesome friendliness and honesty which actually conceals self-reverential smugness.
Cruising on Punternet Alix Mortimer 2009
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Put another way, the story being told in these self-referential (and self-reverential) circles is effectively:
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As far as I can see here is the BBC again saying, "no matter what you fools think, we're gonna do what we want" - another example of the blatant arrogance of the self-reverential.
OPEN THREAD. 2009
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There is, at times, a self-referential (even self-reverential) tone in his big speeches.
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There is, at times, a self-referential even self-reverential tone in his big speeches.
Archive 2009-09-01 Matt Johnston 2009
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