It was the ultimate self-fulfilling and self-justifying prophesy for Trump.
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Psychoanalysis was beginning to look like a circular and self-justifying methodology.
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Playing Harry as a self-justifying racist machine wouldn't bring me any joy.
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Seducers are rarely hung up on posterity or on their own self-justifying theories.
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But if that's the main thing people hear, it will again sound too self-justifying.
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New leaders are less likely to engage in self-justifying behavior that defends past actions.
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His Twitter thread is defensive and self-justifying -- Harvard is racist too is his primary argument.
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By all appearances, Putin's current strategy effectively turns all the world into a self-justifying stage.
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Louis C.K.'s comedy specials are artifacts of both his comedic artistry and his self-justifying persona.
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Books by politicians are almost invariably self-congratulatory and self-justifying, and we often don't review them.
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Leaving aside the merits of this argument, it is the (self-justifying) viewpoint of the Pakistani national security establishment.
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Specifically, it tells a weird, self-justifying story that offers a peak behind the curtain of unfunny viral satire.
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A sensibility that seemed sweet, skeptical and self-scrutinizing may have been cruel, cynical and self-justifying all along.
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" But, Sheehan argues, the book is ultimately selective with the facts "in a way that is blatantly self-justifying.
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It feels self-justifying, an almost desperate drive to return the Destiny series to the exact same point it started at.
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Democratic institutions tend to be "self-justifying": Because they are the result of elections, we assume they must represent the will of the people.
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Welcome to the self-justifying logic of institutional racism, which, conveniently, just so happens to preserve the wealth of those who already have it.
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And some rules are, well, self-justifying constructions that no one really believes are legit—but people follow them anyway, with a wink and a nod.
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Mr. Chomsky wrote several pages defending Mr. Faurisson's right to express himself, and Mr. Faurisson later used that writing in a self-justifying memoir in 1980.
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His full-length debut, immersed in present commercial codes, is also sweet, strong, obsessively committed to glee as a self-justifying aesthetic end, and utterly filler-free.
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A: I think partly it's because the British were successful, too successful at the self-justifying mythologizing that has taken place since the 19th century of their mission.
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It's yet another example, in other words, of a case where more information about politics leads to less actual knowledge and simply more familiarity with self-justifying stereotypes.
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And once the principle is established that electors are self-justifying sources of their own political scruples, the question of when to revolt no longer lies in commentators' hands.
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The highlight of the album, though, may be the cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" in which Segarra half-sympathizes, and more than half-condemns, the self-justifying narrator.
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It is neither apologetic nor self-justifying, and Ortberg remains very clear on the fact that he does not owe an explanation about himself or his gender to anyone.
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If they were founded to address an easy question, that question has either been answered and forgotten or repeated enough times to convert it into an odd, self-justifying ideology.
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But with the NCAA issuing the self-justifying Rice report and enlisting federal law enforcement to quash out the corruption engendered by a corrupt system, that day seems farther away than ever.
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President Bill Clinton's heated, self-justifying response to a question about Monica Lewinsky is astonishing given how much his misconduct with her shaped the #MeToo movement, argues New York magazine's Rebecca Traister.
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Recently, however, historians have moved away from such self-justifying accounts, and a growing field has made the experiences of indigenous displacement, survival and resurgence a new pathway for understanding the nation's history.
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A culture that fetishizes self-justifying myths about its own virtue and reason leaves those adrift in the culture to figure out why we somehow have received something so different from what we deserve.
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A muckraking Twitter thread materialized, scorning Calloway as a "scammer"; she promptly canceled and then uncanceled the tour, all while zapping out flurries of alternately self-flagellating and self-justifying posts on Instagram Stories.
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Then there's the fact that Pepper's eclectic, allusively titled body of work tells a complicated story, one that imprecisely adhered to the rigid tenets of Minimalism, with its anti-referent stance and self-justifying manifestoes.
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The two standout performances — Leslie Mann's new-age airhead and, cast against type, Emma Watson as her bratty, stubbornly self-justifying daughter — are gutsy portrayals of appalling characters one loves to hate (or simply hates).
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Only a toddler could be so self-justifying and tone-deaf that he'd compare the sacrifice of Humayun Khan — the soldier I mentioned who was killed in Iraq — to his own professional work of erecting tall buildings and simultaneously enriching himself.
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There are one or two soapbox moments, including a self-justifying speech by the principal villain, that could have been left out, but to say as much is really just to note how tight and coherent the movie otherwise succeeds in being.
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It ends: I object to the white noise of the worldI object to the pretense of equanimityI object to self-justifying truthsI object to blatant ignoranceI object to the tomorrow that's been promisedI just want you all to join me in shouting:I OBJECT
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And the self-justifying doctrine of the present elite — that you can serve the common good while in office and do well for yourself afterward — became far more implausible when the elite's projects kept failing even as the officeholders kept on cashing in.
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Mr. Just described the memoir, in which General Westmoreland placed much of the blame for the war's outcome on cynical and defeatist journalists, as "petulant" and self-justifying, showing more concern about the war's effects on his army than on his country.
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It's such a relevant metaphor that it approaches simple description of the real world, where economic inequality and Western bootstrapping gospel have created a sequestered, self-justifying paradise for the super-rich that the rest of us aspire to even as we resent it.
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For him to respond to a pair of far-right terrorist attacks with defensiveness and partisanship is simply who he is — a self-justifying polarizer who finds the other aspects of the job tedious and prefers, even amid trauma, to just hurl rhetorical grenades from his Twitter feed.
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That is, it all works like your NBA fantasy basketball league does, except because of the way the NCAA is—or, more to the point, because of its fundamental self-justifying conceit that the players are somehow subordinate to the teams—someone had to build all of it from scratch.
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The film's an adaptation of a selection of David Foster Wallace short stories that are essentially frank monologues from different male characters, which have been compiled into a virtuosic mosaic of narcissistic, self-justifying ugliness, and as choice of material for first adaptations go, pretty close to a cliché for a guy who majored in playwriting at Brown.
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It imagines a world in which the president — the actual current president, albeit in fictional form — has ordered a nuclear strike and wiped out much of the world's population, after which he travels over what remains of the blasted planet in an obnoxiously lavish airship, dispatching a stream of dunderheaded, self-justifying tweets as he goes.
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President Moon picks a fight with Japan over a historical issue that his predecessors came close to solving, and stokes a territorial issue over a tiny island of zero strategic importance; Prime Minister Abe, who this week will become the longest serving Prime Minister in Japan's history, takes a legalistic and self-justifying approach to historical issues rather than leading their resolution with the humility, generosity and imagination befitting a former colonial occupier and currently more powerful of the two contending parties; President TrumpDonald John TrumpOvernight Defense: Ex-Navy secretary slams Trump in new op-ed | Impeachment tests Pompeo's ties with Trump | Mexican president rules out US 'intervention' against cartels EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Dem Andrew Yang releases tax returns Giuliani calls Trump to say he was joking about 'insurance policy' MORE with his erratic actions in the Middle East and the cancellation of military exercises that underpin Alliance deterrence, undermines the strength of American security guarantees to both countries, while at the same time demanding upwards of 300 percent mark-ups on cash payments for deployments of American forces in both Korea and Japan, deployments that are in America's own interest.
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Feminist critic Katha Pollitt criticized Ayers' opinion piece as a "sentimentalized, self-justifying whitewash of his role in the weirdo violent fringe of the 1960s–1970s antiwar left". She says Ayers and his Weathermen cohorts made "the antiwar movement look like the enemy of ordinary people" during the Vietnam War era.Pollitt, Katha. "Bill Ayers Whitewashes History, Again", The Nation magazine (December 8, 2008).
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The case differed from the Euclid one in that there was no residential land use or structural type at issue. It rather addressed the constitutionality of directly regulating occupancy. Eventually, the court sanctioned this variety of ordinances. A community's pursuit of homogeneity was self-justifying, the court logic went, so long as there is no explicit class or racial discrimination.
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Writing for The Guardian, environmental activist George Monbiot, who appears in the film, said its "message, never stated but constantly emerging, is that we all have our self-justifying myths. We tell ourselves a story of our lives in which we almost always appear as the heroes. These myths prevent us from engaging with climate change." The Financial Times critic described the film as intelligent and provoking, giving "The wisdom of hindsight, today".
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Many strips end with Buster delivering a self-justifying moral which has little or nothing to do with his crime. For example, a strip from May 31, 1903, shows him giving Tige a soda from a drugstore soda fountain. The drink splashes, not only the front of his own clothes, but the skirts of a woman's splendid dress. Horrified by his clumsy misadventure, Buster's mother takes him home and flogs him with a stick.
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Steiner connects this "first observation" to the fact that thinking is entirely due to our own activity. It does not appear before us unless we ourselves produce it. Nevertheless, when I apprehend the content of thinking, a concept, this is self-justifying, in the sense that it can be asked why I feel this or that way about something, but not why it produces in me this or that concept. Such a question would be "simply meaningless".Wilson, Ch.3 p. 25.
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Nat Solly, a young cockney hooligan, the son of a thief and brought up among thieves, has been condemned to death by hanging for murdering his former girlfriend. He wakes up on the morning of his execution hysterical, self-pitying, angry at the judge and self-justifying. However, Solly is not wholly unsympathetic, as his predicament is intolerable. He pleads for leniency on account of his weak heart, and because he didn't mean to kill the girl, only to "cut" her to teach her a lesson.
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The MST differs from previous land reform movements in its single-issue focus; land reform for them is a self- justifying cause. The organization maintains that it is legally justified in occupying unproductive land, pointing to the most recent Constitution of Brazil (1988), which contains a passage saying that land should fulfill a social function (Article 5, XXIII). The MST also notes, based on 1996 census statistics, that 3% of the population owns two-thirds of all arable land in Brazil.About the MST on mstbrazil.org.
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During the reign of Afonso V, the Portuguese nobility enjoyed great influence and prestige, and for several decades, the House of Braganza was the wealthiest and most influential force in the kingdom. In 1415, the wisdom and the justice of an attack on Morocco had to be seriously weighed, but during the reign of Afonso V and for the century afterward, "such enterprises were accepted as self-justifying crusades for religion, chivalry, and honor".Payne, Samuel G., A History of Spain and Portugal, Vol.1, Chapt.
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In Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Rorty argues that the central problems of modern epistemology depend upon a picture of the mind as trying to faithfully represent (or "mirror") a mind-independent, external reality. If we give up this metaphor, then the entire enterprise of foundationalist epistemology is misguided. A foundationalist believes that in order to avoid the regress inherent in claiming that all beliefs are justified by other beliefs, some beliefs must be self-justifying and form the foundations to all knowledge. There were two senses of "foundationalism" criticized in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
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The poem is an attack on the bigotry and hypocrisy of some members of the Kirk, or Church of Scotland, as told by the (fictional) self-justifying prayer of a (real) kirk elder, Willie Fisher. In his prayer, Holy Willie piously asks God's forgiveness for his own transgressions and moments later demanding that God condemn his enemies who commit the same sins to eternal hellfire. Burns used Holy Willie to argue that the Calvinist theology of the Kirk encouraged hypocrisy. Burns believed that John Calvin's doctrine of predestination, whether to salvation or damnation, made people morally reckless.
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The neocolonial discourse of geopolitical homogeneity relegating the decolonized peoples, their cultures, and their countries, to an imaginary place, such as "the Third World," an over-inclusive term that usually comprises continents and seas, i.e. Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania. The postcolonial critique analyzes the self-justifying discourse of neocolonialism and the functions (philosophic and political) of its over-inclusive terms, to establish the factual and cultural inaccuracy of homogeneous concepts, such as the "Arabs," the "First World," "Christendom," and the "Ummah," actually comprise heterogeneous peoples, cultures, and geography, and that accurate descriptions of the world's peoples, places, and things require nuanced and accurate terms.
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His lyrics became more introspective, at times even self-absorbed or self-justifying, expressing melancholic longings about the shortcomings of real-life socialism in Cuba while vindicating idealism and revolutionary hope amongst the youth. The trilogy, called Silvio, Rodríguez, and Domínguez (his first name, his father's last name, his mother's last name) displays sound artistic talent. The doubts, absent in the early part of his career, also correspond to the fall of communism worldwide and the so-called Special Period in Cuba. An unnoticed recurrent theme in the lyrics of the early part of his career is that of death, particularly although not only as associated with guerrilla warfare.
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299–310 The pressures on him in England and the comments about him in France brought Gounod to a state of nervous collapse, and in May 1874 his friend Gaston de Beaucourt came to London and took him back home to Paris.Prod'homme and Dandelot, Vol 2, pp. 151–152 Weldon was furious when she discovered that Gounod had left, and she made many difficulties for him later, including holding on to manuscripts he had left at her house and publishing a tendentious and self-justifying account of their association. She later brought a lawsuit against him which effectively prevented him from coming back to Britain after May 1885.
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In the years prior to his death, his son Rafi also initiated some contact with his father, with regular twice a week call. Not long before his death, Rafi pleaded for his father to be released, although his sister and aunt did not share the sentiment. In 1993, Thompson wrote an autobiography under the title Mad Scientist which was published by Southern Holdings and distributed only in Australia. Wendy Lesser, in her review on Kate Grenville's Albion’s story, mentioned his autobiography and regarded the book as “bare and often poorly constructed”, although it gave “an inside view of the pathetically deluded, distressingly self-justifying, willfully self-deceiving perpetrator”.
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In England Shelvocke was arrested on charges of fraud at the instigation of the principal shareholders of the voyage, though he avoided conviction through out-of-court settlements with two of the complainants. They suspected, probably with reason, that he had failed to let them know about a significant portion of the loot obtained from the voyage, and planned to keep it for himself and other members of his crew. In this he likely succeeded. The self-justifying version of events given by Shelvocke in the book A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea was disputed by some who had accompanied him on that expedition, in particular by his captain of marines, William Betagh.
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95 The British historian Louise Atherton wrote that Lloyd was: "Idealistically, almost mystically, devoted to the British Empire, he advocated the use of force, if necessary, to maintain British control". He completed his term as governor in 1923 and was made a Privy Counsellor and GCSI. He returned to Parliament again for Eastbourne in 1924, serving until 1925, when he was made Baron Lloyd, of Dolobran in the County of Montgomery, called after his Welsh ancestral home. Following his ennoblement, he was appointed High Commissioner to Egypt, serving until his resignation was forced upon him by Labour Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson in 1929. His views and experience formed the background of a self-justifying two-volume book, Egypt Since Cromer (published 1933–34).
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According to PopMatters journalist Mike Joseph, Here, My Dears music was "largely midtempo funk, with elements of traditional soul, gospel, and doo-wop mixed together with a slight hint of disco". The title track opens the album, and in the album's liner notes David Ritz describes Gaye's tone in the song as "self-serving, self- justifying [and] self-pitying". "I Met a Little Girl" includes doo-wop drenched harmonies with its lyrics and music producing a "thick mixture" of sincerity and sarcasm. Considered the central melodic motif of the album, "When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You" abandoned traditional song structure with a discursive mode, without a chorus, with its lyrics expressing "different feelings - tenderness, fear, anger, regret".
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For a while the government did nothing, but after Pawlowski started making speeches proclaiming his innocence his trial papers were released, and in 1991 a leading magazine, Prawo i Zycie ("Law and Life"), revealed that since August 1955 Pawlowski had been spying for the state against his own team mates – telling the security services which athletes were planning to defect, who supported Israel in the Middle East war, who might be open to approaches. His spying ceased abruptly in March 1962, when it was judged that he was using his position "for personal gain". These and similar articles were even more damaging than the original charges. In 1994 Pawlowski wrote a second, self- justifying book, Najdluzszy Pojedynek (My Longest Duel), exclusively about his days as a spy.
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The play visits the question of how an alien from space might view humanity; the alien in the play is an attractive woman named Phoebe Zeitgeist, an alien vampire taken from a 1960s comic book. In this play, she is surrounded by horrible people at a cocktail party and learns how to speak from them. The play has three sections: an opening section in which the main characters give monologues that reveal themselves; a second section in which Phoebe speaks one-on-one with these characters, picking up certain phrases from them; and the final section, in which Phoebe, using her limited vocabulary, repeats back "their aphoristic and self-justifying slogans", with the other characters divided over whether she is smart or drunk.
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At least two other times Jesus credited the sufferer's faith as the means of being healed: and . Jesus endorsed the use of the medical assistance of the time (medicines of oil and wine) when he told the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37), who "bound up [an injured man's] wounds, pouring on oil and wine" (verse 34) as a physician would. Jesus then told the doubting teacher of the law (who had elicited this parable by his self-justifying question, "And who is my neighbor?" in verse 29) to "go, and do likewise" in loving others with whom he would never ordinarily associate (verse 37). The healing in the gospels is referred to as a "sign" to prove Jesus' divinity and to foster belief in him as the Christ.
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After Jim Prideaux is freed from capture by the Soviets, Smiley interrogates him, learning that Karla came to visit Prideaux in prison and showed him that he still had Smiley's lighter. After Smiley reveals that Haydon is the mole, Haydon reveals that Karla has directed all of his activities, including encouraging Haydon to cuckold Smiley. He tells him that Karla regarded Smiley as the person most likely to uncover Haydon and that the affair was calculated to cloud Smiley's judgement and cast any accusations he may make as the vengeance of a wronged husband. As Smiley drives to break the news to his cheating spouse, he reflects that Haydon's self-justifying "confession" was an inadequate explanation for becoming a traitor in the first place, and only Karla discerned the quality in Haydon that allowed him to be turned.
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The frontier aboriginals in the mountains and plains also surrendered and defected to the Chinese on 17 May 1661, celebrating their freedom from compulsory education under Dutch rule by hunting down Dutch people and beheading them, and by destroying their Protestant school textbooks. On 1 February 1662, the Dutch Governor of Formosa, Frederick Coyett, surrendered Fort Zeelandia to Koxinga. According to Frederick Coyett's own self-justifying account written after the siege, Koxinga's life was saved at the end of the siege by a certain Hans Jurgen Radis of Stockaert, a Dutch defector who strongly advised him against visiting the ramparts of the fort after he had taken it, which Radis knew would be blown up by the retreating Dutch forces. This claim of a Dutch defector only appears in Coyett's account and Chinese records make no mention of any defector.
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In this way Jews will take part in 'this regenerative work of deliverance through self-annulment; then are we one and un-dissevered!' Wagner was, therefore, calling for the assimilation of Jews into mainstream German culture and society - although there can be little doubt, from the words he uses in the essay, that this call was prompted at least as much by anti-semitism as by a desire for social amelioration. (In the very first publication, the word here translated as 'self-annulment' was represented by the phrase 'self- annihilating, bloody struggle').Wagner, R. Judaism in Music, note 37 The initial publication of the article attracted little attention, but Wagner wrote a self-justifying letter about it to Franz Liszt in 1851, claiming that his "long-suppressed resentment against this Jewish business" was "as necessary to me as gall is to the blood".
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" The reviewer also said: "His arrangements are increasingly varied and dynamic, his voice is more flexible and feathery than ever. This is softly pulsating, spacey music that never gets boring or pretentious." In his review for Rolling Stone, Stephen Holden admired the album for blending "the erotic and the spiritual into an overawed romanticism" with a subtlety that he found lacking in other examples of contemporary "mystical art rock", and for Wright's use of musical virtuosity "as elements of song structure and not as side trips or self-justifying entities". He said that although the Yogananda- inspired lyrics engaged with spirituality on a more superficial level than artists such as Stevie Wonder, Andy Pratt and Harrison applied in their work, "such sweetness issuing from one who sounds like Stevie Winwood beatified is almost impossible to dislike.
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Others frankly think it belongs much higher on this list. But we can all agree that "Fly" is one of the great bottle episodes of the new golden age of TV." Ian Sandwell named this episode as number one best bottle episode. Negative reception toward "Fly" is primarily in the form of arguments that the episode is devoid of plot development and action. Tasha Robinson, however, also argued in The A.V. Club that the episode presents "a vision of Walt that did not in any way coincide with the mental image I’d built of him over the course of the series, as a self-justifying, angry man who could be a real badass when required: Instead, we have to see him as irrational and petty to the point of rank stupidity, taking moronic action after action that clearly risks his safety and well- being… all to catch a fly.
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Crowds rally at the Democracy Monument in 1973 to protest against the military regime (display at the Memorial to 14 October 1973, Bangkok)First fatality of October 14, 1973, incident being put atop the Democracy MonumentDespite the self- justifying intent of the Phibun regime in erecting a monument to its own seizure of power and calling it a monument to democracy, Democracy Monument's rather dubious origins are now largely forgotten, and it has served as a rallying point for later generations of democracy activists. It was the focus of the mass student demonstrations against Thanom Kittikachorn's military regime in the 1973 Thai popular uprising, and of the protests that triggered the 1976 military coup. During Black May (1992), scores of Thais were killed as they protested at the monument against General Suchinda Kraprayoon's regime. During the 2013-2014 Thai political crisis, the monument was a rally point for the People's Democratic Reform Committee led by Democrat MP Suthep Thaugsuban against Pheu Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
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