I had no time for self pity at that point.
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My parents taught me self pity is not gonna work.
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Most important, she accentuates her character's bracing lack of self-pity.
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But the movie never really calls Toomes on his self-pity.
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My sense of self-pity always went exceptionally well with drinking.
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Walk the edge of the knife between self-pity and responsibility.
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There was no happy talk, no mixed messages, no self-pity.
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Don't beat yourself up — but don't succumb to self-pity, either.
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He was not one for self-pity or agonizing over regrets.
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We retreat into defensive emotions such as contempt and self-pity.
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Don't confuse this with self-pity, when you dwell on that pain.
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Self-pity When not raging, the President was feeling sorry for himself.
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We may be sad, but we will not dwell in self-pity.
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The difference between pragmatism and self-pity has become hard to discern.
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When Hemingway was successful, he cut out his mannerisms and self-pity.
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Watch the clip and listen closely ... it's more self-pity than remorse.
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Since then, he's become a famous has-been, marinating in self-pity.
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This time I saw Humbert's mewling self-pity, his delusion, and his malice.
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" She adds: "They tackled the disease head on, without fear, without self pity.
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Wallow in self pity or learn to be happy with what you have?
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Salah and Abdullah are suffering, but they are not lathered in self-pity.
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The emotions we have following a breakup aren't always sadness and self-pity.
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She's sexy, but telling her so would only feed her ferocious self-pity.
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Avoid falling into self-pity, and command your strength when you're feeling low.
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The 171-page document is so soggy with Trumpian self-pity it weeps.
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Instead, it's Alethea who emerges whole, living a life devoid of self-pity.
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"That sounds like self-pity unrestrained," he responds, superior and impatient — a teenager.
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Adults of mature years know not to engage in histrionic self-pity in public, not necessarily because they avoid self-pity, but because outside of high school parties, this is a singularly ineffective way to make people like and support you.
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The envy, jealousy, self-pity, anger, even rage -- it does not vanish or disappear.
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She is said to eat dinner alone, a dish of self-pity and despair.
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"There was no self-pity, but I worried about leaving my family," she says.
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Real heroism was still possible even in the age of narcissism and self-pity.
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As acclaimed novelist Chuck Palmer, Rhys is all insecurities, self-pity, and coiled frustration.
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I don't really understand the propensity for self-pity at a time like this.
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At first, I thought: How is this not a work of pretentious self-pity?
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Their self-pity wasn't this unfathomably deep, their delusions of martyrdom this insanely grand.
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While feeling sad can help you honor what you lost, self-pity is different.
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But the people telling them are too busy and too candid for self-pity.
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I would know him by his NVC alone—hunched with self-pity, shivering with guilt.
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Gavin had tried as many ways of deflating Bernie's self-pity and none had worked.
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At home that night in New Jersey, Sylvia drinks wine and wallows in self-pity.
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I asked if she had ever succumbed to fear or self-pity during her illness.
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The amount of self-pity that you have because you put yourself in that position.
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He is a reflexive democrat whose underdog sympathies haven't curdled into glum superhero self-pity.
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The problem here is Mr. Long's Adam, a twitchy knot of tics and self-pity.
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The part of him that advocates personal responsibility also has no patience for self-pity.
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Self-pity, she says, is the lowest state to which a person's mind can fall.
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Quixotic, he swung from morbid self-pity to rigid authority over his crews and himself.
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Hot tears of pain and self-pity mixed with the cold rain on Lynette's cheeks.
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Some people worry that self-compassion is a form of self-pity and suggests weakness.
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"No, I'm not over it," she confessed while turning Yale's commencement into a self-pity party.
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In Bridgers's hands alone, the song could have dissolved into pure lament, or even self-pity.
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Gyimah possesses a complete absence of self-pity, he sees his handicap as a daily companion.
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Martin captures the moment when ambition either coalesces into concrete goals or curdles into self-pity.
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Any self-pity has to be earned and is inseparable from a tinge of self-disgust.
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"It's all but irresistible, like slipping into delicious self-pity," writes Michael Hann at the Guardian.
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How to convey the magnitude of her troubles without letting her descend into irritating self-pity?
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Pathos is a kind of mutual pity: bathos is self-pity, since no audience member cares.
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I tried to keep self-pity to a minimum; I already knew that life was unfair.
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He wandered through the house in a daze, trying not to give in to self-pity.
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Most were middle-aged Germans like her, unaccustomed to self-pity and allergic to national pride.
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Every so often I'd trot to McDonalds for a cheeseburger and a pang of self-pity.
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What was depression becomes expression, and self-pity and helplessness are transformed into dignity, integrity, and courage.
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It was very easy to complain and self pity but I refused to let the enemy win.
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Its themes are unjust pain, resentment, self-pity, pride and a desperate desire to run the world.
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I hope that your self-pity is as dark and more terrifying than my feeling of hopelessness.
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At the Baby Jane preview screening, which Bette chose to skip, Joan wallows in boozy self-pity.
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Turning potentially indulgent self-pity into expansive compassion is a move familiar to readers of his poems.
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Mr. Shandling's face, which swung from a broad grin to melting self-pity, defined Larry's oleaginous character.
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The tears weren't from self-pity; they were from having to leave behind people I cared about.
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But as the weeks went by, I saw the raw grief and loss morph into self-pity.
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Asked why, she said without a trace of self-pity that she was a very sensitive kid.
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Lopate writes: The book refuses to wallow in self-pity or offer triumphalist narratives of overcoming victimhood.
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The purpose of the night out was to avoid wallowing in self-pity, not to win anything.
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Without drama or self-pity, they harness those meticulous impulses to shape a bold and shining thing.
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What emerges is a story that searchingly inhabits the lives of women without sentimentality or self-pity.
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Instead, she is angry and resentful and stubborn, prone to shouting and fistfights and flights of self-pity.
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It is remarkable in its eloquent, unvarnished presentation of nightmarish loss and its utter lack of self-pity.
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So there was really no justification for a self-pity party, even though it was tempting at times.
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When her therapist crossed the line, Julianna Baggott was confused by her reactions: interest, self-pity and glee.
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And here he's in a room that he doesn't want to be in, he's forced to by law, he has to talk to these lawyers, and the combination of contempt he has for everyone around him, or at least the people speaking to him, and then self-pity ... Self-pity!
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Sam is understandably overcome with crushing emotional pain, but there's no time for him to wallow in self pity.
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As I hobbled from the back seat, I dropped my self-pity on the icy snow along the curb.
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Everyone she grieved for these days was unknown to her, which made her grief seem more like self-pity.
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Through a haze of self-pity I was utterly incapable of envisioning the physical reality of 300 hardcover books.
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I told Miriam she needed to stop wallowing in self-pity and do what was needed for her son.
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The spirit or psychological state has to be calm, free of anger, irritation, fear, self-pity, delusion and pride.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.
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But there are so many other people to feel sorry for myself, it preempts any possibility of self-pity.
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But whatever tenderness might have been inside him was long ago swallowed up by possessiveness, self-pity and paranoia.
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Hall says that he wants to avoid the perception that he is seeking sympathy or luxuriating in self-pity.
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And you try to restrict the induction of self-pity, which is one of the complications of the illness.
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In our conversations, which took place in the course of several weeks, he veered between self-pity and defiance.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, and no room for fear.
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Money remains an emotionally fraught territory – triggering anger, jealousy, inadequacy, resentment, pride, gratitude, and self-pity in a split-second.
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But acute, specific observations on life with cancer mostly elevate what could have been an overfamiliar tale of self-pity.
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Ms. Taylor, who had the disease, recognized the jolt to her life, but she was without bitterness or self-pity.
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Of course, she doesn't surrender fully to her disgraced status, and she can't help but let self-pity seep in.
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Bennet retains the original's misplaced snobbery and self-pity, she is in this version also a lover of trash television.
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The next morning, however, she's up early, stripped of self-pity, nattily garbed in blue, and brisk with positive intent.
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The chief prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, has portrayed Mr. Pistorius as a man given to fits of anger and self-pity.
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Must we endure another dose of the grandiose self-pity and authoritarian belligerence that have characterized the DC-Warner Bros.
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A president who cannot see above the parapet of his self-pity isn't going to run a competent administration, period.
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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence and no room for fear.
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You get all of the self-important self-pity of a nasty case of the flu without the runny nose.
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Since I Laid My Burden Down is somewhat autobiographical, making the novel's complete lack of self-pity even more remarkable.
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But I'm forcing myself not to wallow in self-pity (which is something I could have easily earned a PhD in …).
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They release endorphins — a salt lick of self-pity, the sugar rush of vindicated resentment — ambient anesthetics to dull real pain.
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Both because of the danger I thought I'd escaped, and from my own self-pity — I couldn't function away from Mom.
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Most of us normally, if we find out we've been cheated on, we take a minute to wallow in self-pity.
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You sat through seven losing World Series opinions through 1945, and since then it's been all invasive shellfish and self-pity.
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Sorrow, self-pity, and regret stood in the way of my future, along with the steel bars that caged me in.
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Maybe I'm taking it a step too far to assume that, but is your self-pity one of your cool points?
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Mountain Rock draws on this very sincerity without ever getting caught in the kind of reflection that calls for self-pity.
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It was a great way to start because I started from a positive place, rather than any kind of self-pity.
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Credit where credit is due for Joseph Fiennes, who doesn't try to generate any sympathy or self-pity in the Commander.
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"You can't control life, it doesn't wind up perfectly," Mr. Allen's unhappy film director says in that great self-pity party.
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This is an angry age, in which Trump's critics also simmer in rage, ridicule, self-importance, self-pity — and hatred, too.
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It's true that not everything has a solution, but if there is one, why sit around and wallow in self-pity?
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Rich, poor and even those in between, so many Americans express self-pity rather than a sense of optimism and ambition.
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Yet Trump manages to make it infinitely complicated — and then get distracted by self-pity and excoriate reporters for committing journalism.
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Last year's Bury Me at Makeout Creek was a distorted cocktail of self-pity, black humor, and liberating calls for freedom.
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It turns out that all of her self-pity was kind of just a reflection of how she felt about her father.
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"Crazy Nancy," he said at a recent rally in Dallas, where his epic self-pity and all-consuming grudges took center stage.
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Her writing was good for three main reasons: a lack of sentimentality, a lack of self-pity, and a sense of humor.
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Paak delves into with vulnerability—but never self-pity—on Malibu, and entirely new territory compared to the cheeky hedonism of Venice.
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Whether you're struggling to pay your bills or you're dealing with unexplained health problems, indulging in self-pity won't fix your problems.
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If you're prone to feeling sorry for yourself when the going gets rough, train your brain to exchange self-pity for gratitude.
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Ruthlessness can be a good literary strategy, and any autobiographical novel that portrays a harrowing event must be vigilant about self-pity.
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As for the baby's mother, well, there's nothing like a kidnapping to shake you out of your self-indulgence and self-pity.
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His self-absorption, narcissism, casual cruelty, lack of empathy and penchant for self-pity have not been leavened by any redeeming qualities.
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But even as the lyrics detail troubled thoughts, the music staves off self-pity with distorted tones, obstinate drumbeats and unhistrionic vocals.
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The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes.
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Not everything is terrible, and Nathalie is too stoical, too analytical and too much of an ironist to engage in self-pity.
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When she says that it seems as if he hasn't taken a shower in a while, he responds with operatic self-pity.
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After a brief exposure, she declared that borzois were "cowardly, stupid, disloyal, and full of self-pity" and switched to Yorkshire terriers.
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Even long before Mourinho offered him that glimmer of hope, though, neither self-pity nor self-doubt had intruded on Schweinsteiger's mind.
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But instead of wallowing in self-pity, Johnstone did something about it, and found genuine companionship in the unlikeliest of places—the Internet.
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As a young adult (played by Britt Robertson), she's even more selfish and needy, which she justifies with poetic metaphor and self-pity.
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Yet you rarely muster the courage to put down your binoculars, and with them, your corrosive self-pity, and see what we see.
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Brushing self-pity aside, I immediately clicked on the "What piece of literature are you?" quiz and discovered that I am Shakespeare's sonnets.
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In interviews after her loss, she spoke of her tremendous sadness, but refused to wallow in self-pity despite her series of tragedies.
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From atop his tower of self-pity on Thursday, Judge Kavanaugh warned that the partisan plot to tank his nomination would haunt Democrats.
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And Bill Clinton has learned that his threadbare routine of maudlin self-pity and casting blame on everyone but himself doesn't work anymore.
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Mengiste ventures into the minds of these two men, with their confusions of cruelty and self-pity, their musings about masculinity and representation.
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The song invites a delicious, almost luxuriant self-pity and melancholy that envelops you like a steaming tub filled with expensive bath oils.
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Wright's injuries have limited him to 75 games during the past two seasons — and counting — but he refused to indulge in self-pity.
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I screamed some really hurtful shit at him, including calling him a narcissist, telling him that he loves wallowing in his own self-pity.
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You come to a fork in the road, and you choose between wallowing in self-pity and taking a good, hard look around you.
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Though guaranteed to generate backlash for its personal exculpation marinated in self-pity, the piece's egotistical approach also obscures the facts of the case.
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It was an exercise in self-analysis, and I tried to make it as objective as possible — no self-pity and no self-justification.
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But Ian complicates things with his sad-sack self-pity and disintegrating marriage, taking the film into a more familiar Gervais self-abasement mode.
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They are well aware of the tragedy in their lives, but I have never had a hint of self-pity from any of them.
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Residents have started the hard work of rebuilding, fitting together the broken pieces of their homes and lives without a trace of self-pity.
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Just ambition, greed, confusion, self-pity and nostalgia for when they could cozy up to lobbyists and shaft the public while gazes were averted.
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Trump, the world's most powerful man, and undoubtedly one of the luckiest, continue to drench himself in a thick, sticky coat of self-pity.
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Now, as it enters adolescence, it has begun languishing in all the self-pity and trivial dramas that come with those awkward teenage years.
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This Philadelphia emo/punk band makes loud, messy, tuneful feelings-rock, but because they're responsible adults they never get bogged down in adolescent self-pity.
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But he found the work unfulfilling, and, in a spell of self-pity, trekked to Taishoken Ramen House, run by legendary ramen chef Kazuo Yamagishi.
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Anna Kendrick stars as Martha, a chatty neurotic given to extreme mood swings who spirals into self-pity and excess when her boyfriend betrays her.
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Yet we can't we let go of this bizarre notion that, somehow, he must be awash in a tidal wave of his own-self pity.
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Nobody could blame a person for cratering to self-pity and fear, but others might be inspired by your example if you rose up instead.
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Despite these setbacks, "she has apparently never suffered from self‐pity — one of the most refreshing aspects of this untypical Hollywood biography," our reviewer wrote.
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"There is a fundamental difference between remorse and the self pity of someone who realizes their actions have real consequences," Ms. Conger wrote on Twitter.
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Throughout 'In Pieces,' she assesses herself with a clear and critical eye, often revealing unappealing parts of herself … with minimal rationalization, sentiment or self-pity.
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If de Blasio sounds unduly bitter to many onlookers, too full of self-pity, it's because so many of his wounds have been self-inflicted.
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What we soon realize is that this novel marks the climax of the author's fascination with moaners, groaners, fusspots, and other oracles of self-pity.
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In essence, his manifesto is a warmed-over, less coherent version of what the Christchurch murderer wrote, but with less irony and more self-pity.
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Either way, Trumpism is a posture that leads to the now familiar cycle of threat perception, insult, enemy-making, aggrievement, self-pity, assault and counterassault.
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But the line between war trauma and ordinary angst—between suffering and self-pity—gets harder to draw as conflict and consequence drift further apart.
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In Act II, lashing out with wounded pride, he sounds like all the dark voices in our heads, all the self-hatred and self-pity.
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But sometimes they fall into simpering self-pity (as Kylo Ren does), and sometimes they rise above what even you expected of them (as Rey does).
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The George of the story is full of self-pity, rather than in stuck in genuine practical and moral peril; Stern's writing is flat and clichéd.
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"Part of viewing yourself as an underdog can be dangerous and self-marginalizing as you kind of wallow in some sort of self pity," says Curry.
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Break ups can be difficult for everyone involved but they are especially tough on your friends who are forced to watch you wallow in self-pity.
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With infinite patience, he learned to move again, to rely on the physical support of others, never giving in to despair, to self-pity, to discouragement.
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Later, Elizabeth is suspended, behind bars, in the open air, but even there, in another proud Pugh touch, she sheds not a tear of self-pity.
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His doleful, hangdog expression and strangled vocal delivery give all his characters an air of grievance and self-pity — no one's feelings hurt more than theirs.
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Romy's narration darts around in a voice that is tough, cynical, a little defensive at times, but ruthlessly honest and without a trace of self-pity.
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It's hardly surprising that an industry that often functions as a protection racket for white male mediocrity should specialize in spectacles of white male self-pity.
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But we have been unwilling to assume this responsibility, only to react with outrage and self-pity when onerous or ineffective regulations are forced on us.
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Arthur's gloomy self-pity only really makes sense as part of an attempt to evoke the passing of the era and the Closing of the Frontier.
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Coster-Waldau's essentially heroic Horus lacks the balance of arrogance and self-pity that makes his performance as Jaime Lannister on Game of Thrones work so well.
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Most of the time, when I'm not wallowing in the depths of self-pity or self-loathing, I'm striving to be the best person I can be.
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Yet, we can't say the same for our heroine, who's been wallowing in self pity and heartbreak in the Dorito-dusted cave once known as her room.
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"Creep" Radiohead cover Casey Newton: Radiohead's first big hit is sometimes taken as a joke song — a knowing Thom Yorke mocking the self-pity of a teenager.
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What's most beautiful about this version of the song is that Baggins' feminine tenor is not met with either Drake's famous male bravado or sadboy self-pity.
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In an episode of self-pity and rage, I ransacked my closet, looking for clutches that were too small to hold my meter, needles, and insulin pens.
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Devoid of self-pity, cancer humor proves that raging fear passes, when transmuted through ironic camaraderie — with friends or prospective readers or lab animals — into emotional clarity.
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Noticing your mental state, without falling into indulgence or self-pity, come back as best as you're able to a sense of patience and kindness toward yourself.
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Surely Bongwan, with his potentially toxic blend of vanity, self-pity, passivity and guile, fits the profile of a recognizable and infamous type of lousy media man.
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Still more certainly, the letters are heroic in their avoidance of self-pity, though they also reveal for the first time just how bad his injuries were.
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Create a mantra that you can repeat to yourself like, "This hurts, but I'll be OK." Use it to drown out the thoughts that encourage self-pity.
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"Trump, the world's most powerful man, and undoubtedly one of the luckiest, continued to drench himself in a thick, sticky coat of self-pity," wrote Frida Ghitis.
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I grew up surrounded by variations on this character, and the mix of responsible decency and jaw-dropping self-pity and entitlement that Keaton presents rings 100% true.
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The problem was that a lot of my initial cracks at writing about my past were done with a real sense of resentment and victimization and self-pity.
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But what we actually got to see on-screen were the parts of the conversation where he railed in self-pity about the family's unfair treatment of him.
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" And there's a line I use that's a bit pat but I say, "Anger without an agenda just leads to further rage and frustration and actually self pity.
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Spacey wore fringed epaulettes in the style of Muammar Gaddafi, playing Richard as a modern dictator and arch manipulator who was ultimately left alone with his self-pity.
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What Democrats see as self-pity and grandiose posturing, working-class Florida Republicans see as a man outspokenly demanding his rights in a way they wish they could.
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" It's followed by "To Be So Lonely," which nicely mocks the singer's self-pity: "I'm just an arrogant son of a bitch who can't admit when he's sorry.
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To sit with him today is to listen to a fugue of self-pity and rage, from a man who also exhibits some understandable bewilderment at his plight.
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In that regard, too, he's like his father-in-law, though Trump wears his self-pity, fury and ruthlessness right out front, for the whole world to see.
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Fadell is almost pathologically compelled to say what's on his mind, and never in the week I spent shadowing him did he say anything that smacked of self-pity.
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The Soviet way of dealing with problems was to soldier through with no whining or self-pity, and so I built a sarcophagus over the pain of my experience.
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And I was surprised how quickly Tyrion forgot his mission and started in on the self-pity about Tywin not loving him enough because he was born a dwarf.
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The first time I miscarried I spent the due date — Christmas Day 2010 — wallowing in self-pity and attempting to smile through the Christmas celebrations with my boyfriend's family.
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She was not only oozing self-pity, she also seemed self-righteous about it — convinced that her unhappiness held far more truth than the pretenses other people hid behind.
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We are supposed to, as Dana does in "The L Word," pick ourselves up out of dreary self-pity and look stylish on the streets in our colorful hats.
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Based on the idea that feeling isolated in our pain exacerbates perceptions of inadequacy and insecurity, common humanity is an important part of avoiding negative cycles of self-pity.
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Yet for all her sorrow and self-pity Benjamin is rather pleased by her solitary nighttime self and the neurotic, "choleric" temperament from which she believes her insomnia springs.
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These days, when not guesting on shows like Nashville, Mendler reflects on lost love and ill-mannered men with a matured emotional depth and resilience stripped of self-pity.
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But the performance already reveals its ending in its title — that this saturation of emotion, whether remorse or self-pity, will not lead to a true purging of character.
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Reyez doesn't strike simplistic pop poses; she doesn't present herself as an inspirational superwoman or a sexual dynamo, a creature of pure affection or of long-suffering self-pity.
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Reyez doesn't strike simplistic pop poses; she doesn't present herself as an inspirational superwoman or a sexual dynamo, a creature of pure affection or of long-suffering self-pity.
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"I didn't want to be part of that misery pie; I'm not a wallower in self-pity," said Mr. White, who now runs Constellations Group, a strategic consultancy firm.
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As the House moves toward what even he says is an inevitable vote to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors, President Trump toggles between self-pity and combativeness.
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As the House moves toward what even he says is an inevitable vote to impeach him for high crimes and misdemeanors, Mr. Trump toggles between self-pity and combativeness.
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Post Malone's self-satisfied self-pity coupled with the Chili Peppers' we-can-still-do-this athleticism — the singer Anthony Kiedis ended up shirtless — all played like unintentional parody.
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Far from serving as an excuse for self-pity or left melancholy, the Occupy Museums event was an effective counter-inaugural: a ceremony marking a wider commitment to shared struggle.
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Singer, songwriter, and live percussionist Yoni sings songs of sorrow and self-pity, lacing his rhymes and melodies with witty gut punches that mostly land squarely on his own stomach.
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Chicken nuggets are everyone's childhood-reversion food, a perfect antidote to breakups, miserable work days, and anytime you just want to bathe in self pity and longing for the past.
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"I've been wrong before and I'll be wrong again but I damn sure wouldn't make excuses (alcohol) in an interview to gain self pity and save face," Haqq wrote back.
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Ultimately, this allergy to self-pity allows him to grapple with the consequences and consolations of whatever agency — and dignity — can exist in even the most abhorrent and restricted circumstances.
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On the throne for a quarter century by now, Henry is a very human Big Brother, not without shame but bathed in self-pity, and reaching new heights of grandiosity.
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Greg wins week after week not just because he's a delightful fan favorite but because he's the character who seems the most inclined to self-preservation without accompanying self-pity.
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Affleck pulls from 1,000 shades of grief, each spliced with a counter emotion, bringing precision to a film that could have thudded along as a humorless, repetitive barrage of self-pity.
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I wallowed in some self pity over my situation until a few days later, when my boyfriend's eight-year-old nephew broke his arm and took on surgery like a champ.
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But, knowing that Ronna couldn't abide self-pity, we have been slowly moving forward by doing our best to cope and trying to honor, whenever possible, her remarkable memory and legacy.
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When my mom first asked, "What are the chances that I would have a gay son and a transgender child?" she was asking it out of a place of self-pity.
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The installation nods to various Scottish stereotypes like our love of drinking and self-pity — "We <22006 Alcohol" and "We <22006 Failure" — as well as hinting at constructions of Scottish nationhood.
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It is at the same time a book that, like his family, never gives in to self-pity but remains remarkably balanced, forthright and unwavering in its search for the truth.
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" When the baby arrives, the jokes don't really stop, but they take a brakes-stripping turn toward self-pity as Mr. Birbiglia becomes "this pudgy milkless vice president of the family.
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That's a lot of ear-biting, and by the end of this exercise in self-regarding arrogance and self-pity, the reader may feel that his own ear has been savaged.
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So, although it's tempting to host a self-pity party, take the time to recognize when negative thoughts do happen, and make a concrete effort to stop them in their tracks.
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I had begun my trip in a mood of dejection and self-pity, feeling shunned, overlooked, ignored, rejected — easily identifying with migrants and Mexicans, who knew the feeling of being despised.
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"If she wanted to start with the Bible, I didn't want her to go back to the jail and to sink into doubt and self-pity and become bitter," she added.
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Much of "Never Fear" unfolds indoors, which gives it a claustrophobic quality that dovetails with Carol's sense of feeling trapped, and comes out in jolts of anger, panic and self-pity.
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I also hated the talk-show scene, which saw Arthur turning self-pity into violence and being immediately, inexplicably rewarded with the love and support he'd been missing through the whole film.
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When people get negative feedback at work, when they attribute it to the relationship rather than just to the individuals involved, they don't wallow in self-pity or lash out in anger.
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At a time when bluster, bragging and histrionic displays of self-pity are apparently the defining characteristics of American manhood, it's nice to be reminded of the virtues of discretion and quiet.
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"Ready Player One," written by Mr. Cline and Zak Penn, dives into the magma of fan zeal, male self-pity and techno-mythology in which those once-innocent pastimes are now embedded.
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Live Review Self-pity, self-mockery, self-righteousness, self-loathing, self-defense — long before the era of the selfie, Morrissey was writing songs that turned constant self-absorption into a blood sport.
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Starting out as the portrait of an irresponsible woman, "Colossal" turns into a critique of male self-pity, as Gloria's problems collide with, and are overwhelmed by, Oscar's sense of aggrieved entitlement.
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Anne, plagued by gout, grief and self-pity, functions as the hypotenuse of a discreet erotic and political triangle, the other legs of which are Abigail (Emma Stone) and Sarah (Rachel Weisz).
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With the sound on, you could hear fury and self-pity from the Republicans, along with, at times, outrage that Democrats would have the audacity to speak on behalf of American values.
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It might not be a first edition, but if you keep writing, you'll get to an outcome better than if you wallow in self pity and dwell on the bad situation you're in.
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Sexual hunger pulls Pico off the feed and toward the world, and sometimes toward disenchantment; meals are scarfed down on the road, or prepared at home, slowly, with some self-pity mixed in.
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And Barry himself can never quite see that he is not a blameless victim, and that even his own self-pity is a luxury, a commodified good on par with his expensive watches.
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But Mad Men nonetheless lifted up Joan and Peggy's fight to be taken seriously — a fight they won — as pointed counterparts to its men, stuck in their own loops of self-defeating self-pity.
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This self-pity is remarkable considering I can't for the life of me think of any examples of a person in favor of LGBT equality even suggesting violence against those that disagree with them.
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The "red pill" offers up a tangible, external enemy, and the subsequent opportunity to wallow in self-pity about the unfairness of a supposedly matriarchal society that won't let you get your end away.
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Both steep in dark and brooding self-pity about being slighted by the one that got away, paving the way for more emotional expressions of pain and longing for men—Black men in particular.
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In the most recent season of Versailles, the opulent Canal+ drama about Louis XIV's early reign, a beautiful, pouty man with glossy tresses sits in his chambers suffering his umpteenth bout of self-pity.
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Because although it may seem that you are feeling a simple state of depressed self-pity when knee deep in a two hour chill-step mix, it's actually a lot more complex than that.
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This is due in large part to their descendants opting for lyrics solely about drowning their sorrows and wallowing in their pain, a kind of myopic self-pity that Dillinger Four never dealt in.
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The result was a confirmation process, and now almost certainly a justice, tainted by dishonesty, shamelessness, self-pity, indifference to women's fears and calculated divisiveness — the hallmarks, in other words, of Mr. Trump's politics.
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"Whether or not they carry the big I-word out … when you look at all I've done …" he rambled on, marching into the bog of self-pity, stopping to admire his many fictional accomplishments.
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In the late 1990s, he sent several hundred Pakistanis to their slaughter against Indian forces in the Siachen area of Kashmir, and even after being called out for that blunder expressed largely self-pity.
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What drives this franchise is the same force that drives so much culture and politics right now: the self-pity of a white man with a relentless need to be the center of attention.
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I'm not sure I've ever read a memoir quite like this, one that spills its many dark secrets with so little self-pity, so much acuity and such a deliberate lack of authorial certitude.
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It also goes without saying that Trump will use any criticism as fuel for the fire of self-pity and bitterness that sustained him through a brutal presidential campaign and now sustains a quagmired presidency.
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In less than an hour, I saved myself from days of lying around and wallowing in self-pity (which I'm normally accustomed to) — and, much to my surprise, it wasn't even that stressful at all.
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That was thanks in large part to Maggie and Sasha, who — despite having lost more than anyone else, and thus having more justification to grieve than anyone else — weren't interested in wallowing in self-pity.
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While normally we turn to lozenges, capsules, and semi-psychotropic syrups to assuage our congestion and self-pity in these hard times, we now may have an excuse to try a decidedly different remedy: chocolate.
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There's no ego or self-pity to it; actually, it's often funny ("I am not Jesus, though I have the same initials"), a tool not to be undervalued given the album's tough-to-swallow themes.
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But it was also her refusal to heed warnings and her rejection of self-pity that had helped her articulate feminism, to venture the then-preposterous question of whether anyone was really born a woman.
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Or better yet, it's the same cry of cognitive dissonance I've heard from every corner of the political commentariat: liberal, middle-aged men wallowing in the same egotism of self-pity that drives Trump's presidency.
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At the Al Smith dinner in 2016, on the eve of the election, Trump turned an occasion for good-natured ribbing into a full-on assault of Hillary Clinton, peppered by dashes of self-pity.
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Kendrick), a neurotic given to garrulous patter and lightning mood swings, is betrayed by her boyfriend, she goes on a bender of Olympian self-pity and excess, to the exasperation of her roommate, Sophie (Katie Nehra).
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The play's strength is that Ms. Yamauchi "writes from neither self‐pity nor ideology," John Corry wrote in reviewing the New York premiere by the Pan Asian Repertory Theater for The New York Times in 1979.
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He comes across as comically harried by fate; his self-pity leads to vengeful fantasies and outbursts, as when he hurls a chair at a doctor who suggests surgery to rectify his penchant for walking on tiptoe.
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" Elias, in "Shyness and Dignity," loves Thomas Mann's fiction, in part because he has decided that Mann is the only novelist who could have written about him "without self-pity, without whining, and with a rare irony.
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Instead of wallowing in self-pity and hitting Cupid in the ass with his own damn arrow, Imgur user BinanoSplat said he decided to use his own birthday as an excuse to call out his cheating girlfriend.
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But Mr. Fitzmaurice, by his own measure a "bit of a stubborn bastard," was determined to leave his wife, Ruth, and their two young sons — with a third on the way — a legacy other than self-pity.
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The first game involves subsuming yourself in grief and wallowing in wanton self-pity like a bedroom-bound teenage boy mooning over a girl from school he's never actually spoken to but is definitely madly in love with.
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Rather than fretting about victim politics, Chait and Dougherty could more usefully focus on a pernicious phenomenon: the self-pity of some of the most privileged members of society, and the cottage industry of performative suffering it fosters.
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If you're naturally maudlin and prone to pathetic pangs of self pity then it's tough to isolate one night from the vast blurry gallery of pants-round-the-ankle, piss-down-the-trouser-leg nights and early mornings.
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It doesn't take a lot to get the average voter to tell you what he doesn't like about Donald Trump: the nastiness, the divisiveness, the lying, the tweeting, the chaos, the epic boastfulness matched by bottomless self-pity.
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The book focuses on Hoffa's hit, but it also includes information on the highly publicized murders of "Crazy Joe" and President John F. Kennedy, with Sheeran's tale "admirably free of self-pity and self-aggrandizement," said our reviewer.
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They also signal to the audience that it's okay to laugh at the manifestly over-the-top violence, and at John's raging self-pity over being forced against his will to be such a merciless wish-fulfillment fantasy badass.
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In his latest film, Stronger, Gyllenhaal plays Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, and he commits to depicting the waves of anguish and self-pity that buffeted Bauman as he struggled to recover.
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Numbing herself with self-pity and chardonnay, Bridget gets dragged (actually, shanghaied) to an outdoor music festival, where she pretty literally stumbles into bed with Jack (Patrick Dempsey, yes, still McDreamy), who turns out to be a wealthy entrepreneur.
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But although the show does marinate in grief, privilege, self-pity and escalating drug and alcohol consumption, it is also mordantly funny and unexpectedly heartbreaking, grounded by a tour de force performance by Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.
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Once the hangover passes or the next drink arrives, we are pretty sure that Gerry's self-pity will abate, his batteries will be recharged, and he'll be back to upbraiding young Mack for not knowing who Nia Peeples is.
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And yet because the movie is mostly scenes of recording sessions, squabbling and self-pity, Mercury's stardom is made beside the point — it's assumed — so Malek gets to play a charismatic sufferer, -quipster and, eventually, proud brown gay man.
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In one bracing scene, Carol, now in a wheelchair, shrieks "I'm a cripple!" at Guy, an explosion that provokes a withering rebuke from two lovers, one a man on crutches who firmly puts that self-pity in its place.
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But where dark web intellectuals veer from analysis of that phenomenon into self-pity is in their consistent tendency to treat all skeptical criticism of their purported commitment to truth-seeking as further symptoms of political correctness gone mad.
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Stewing in self-pity you think—and subsequently become convinced—that this dog, who you've fed and bathed who knows how many times, and coined several adorable nicknames for, will forget you ever existed by the start of next spring.
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For me, becoming a youngish orphan brought a complicated mix of self-pity and pity-antipathy, wanting people to see the upending of my world but be invisible, hoping to be taken care of and desperate to be left alone.
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Nabokov's ghost presides — as it always does, over stories of innocence defiled — not just in Martin's arias of self-pity or desire, which recall Humbert Humbert, but in the vocabulary, in the satisfaction of naming the world with scientific precision.
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Oscar, who seems like a nice enough guy at first, turns out to be part of the brotherhood of angry dudes who swarm like locusts on social media and elsewhere, spewing a toxic brew of belligerence, entitlement and whining self-pity.
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But I've seen people with it who live with a sense of spiritual adventure, who refuse to be ashamed, who manage to hold on to themselves and live with endurance and lack of self-pity and go bravely into the night.
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But I've seen people with it who live with a sense of spiritual adventure, who refuse to be ashamed, who manage to hold on to themselves and live with endurance and lack of self-pity and go bravely into the night.
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Despite the fact that I can't seem to find my illness's redeeming qualities and perform my cancer nobly, there are still people willing to climb down into the slop of self-pity with me and nod along at my soggy rage.
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Sternly dismissing any attempts at self-pity — "Anyone who pities herself for more than a month on end is a weak sister and likely to become a public nuisance besides" — Hillis guides her readers through how to cope with life on their own.
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Denial captures the epiphany of adulthood's anticlimax: a study, weighted equally by wit and poignancy (though never self-pity), of the free-fall between losing your innocence and reclaiming your self-respect, losing your faith and grasping for something, anything to replace it.
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It only gets harder and harder, but I've learned to have some faith in my self-loathing and self-pity, knowing that it will crest at some point and in a state of exhaustion and disrepair I will get some crap down.
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Almost as soon as they arrive, she treats them to a line of self-pity and emotional manipulation before eventually agreeing to meet Logan's terms in exchange for a $20 million payout and a promise that the kids will spend Christmases with her.
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Later, when Bridget thought about the night in the hotel, she would remember how Angela, down at the bar, had said, with sudden sobriety, "Nobody takes care of me," and then laughed, dismissing her self-pity with a toss of her pale hair.
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Years later, the truth of his past, in all its genuine horror, was established, and this man, with his "deep reserves of self-pity" and his "ethos of adaptation and survival," was a defendant once again, this time in a Munich court in Germany.
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I realized that because this character had been robbed of his sight in the war and the other woes that have been heaped upon him by life, there's no question in my mind there was a period of breast-beating and whiny self-pity.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - English World Cup self-pity often centers on the national team's semi-final defeat by Germany on penalties at Italia '90 but Belgians have their own painful memories of 28 years ago at the hands of England and now they want payback.
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The tracks are reverberant electronic dirges; the rhymes, heading into sung choruses, testify to bewilderment, mourning, resentment, self-pity and questions about what to do after a cathartic memorial concert: "I get tackled by the grief at times that I would least expect," he raps.
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At the heart of Gwendoline Riley's short, dark, funny novel is a marriage in which bullying self-pity and perplexed self-abasement collide in a series of savage little jousts that ought to be unbearable to witness, but are in fact mesmerizing and perversely tender.
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But "The Alarmist," a beautiful lament in 6/8 time, suggests that Hall has not, in fact, sworn off self-pity: It would be good to talk For my sanity Now do what you feel like you gotta do But be good to me.
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And as they were doing so, the object of their adoration was giving an endless, rambling, third-world-dictator-style speech, full of lies, that veered between grandiosity and self-pity, interspersed with complaints about how many times he has to flush his toilet.
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In a rambling six-page letter addressed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Trump weaved together a tapestry of lies, self-pity and warped allusions to history, in an effort to craft for himself a mantle of innocence on the eve of his likely impeachment.
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It's hard to overstate the negative reaction to Spacey's statement—everyone from GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis to Trevor Noah to Billy Eichner came out against it—which goes to show the public has little patience for self-pity when it comes to abusers.
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Still, it's all played sensitively enough, as Steinfeld -- a 19-year-old actress clearly on the edge of stardom -- conveys her character's emotional tumult and self-pity without becoming as annoying as teenage protagonists often are, or as Harrelson's teacher likes to pretend that she is.
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But if The Price of Gold (which didn't shy away from Harding's contradictions and self-pity) inspired a reexamination of her story, the more stylized retelling of I, Tonya has now seemingly offered a justification for something beyond that — a long overdue chance at public vindication.
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Dawn fearlessly faces down what she believes to be a demon keeping her mother away; Willow's response to Cassie's suggestion of suicide is rage instead of self-pity and consideration; Buffy opens up to vampire Holden for a frank conversation about her emotional needs before killing him.
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" About J. D. Salinger, E. B. White and James Thurber, he wrote, "I have always disliked these men for a covert self-cherishing and self-pity that I find in their work — it is no accident that they constitute the very essence of The New Yorker.
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While the show registers their despair over a changing situation, like the longing C.C. feels when observing a retired pimp (played by the "Wire" alum Clarke Peters, in a wonderful turn) who's settled down with a woman, it doesn't indulge their self-pity or nostalgia for long.
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In chronicling these missteps, "Shattered" creates a picture of a shockingly inept campaign hobbled by hubris and unforced errors, and haunted by a sense of self-pity and doom, summed up in one Clinton aide's mantra throughout the campaign: "We're not allowed to have nice things."
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Instead of taking even a small measure of responsibility for a crisis that kicked off after he tried to enlist foreign election help in exchange for congressionally approved military aid for an ally at war, Trump demonstrated the pure essence of his narcissism and self-pity.
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We have been starved of Thompson lately, and of her forthright comic briskness; imagine if she had played Bridget from the start, denuding the role of its self-pity, and of its oddly archaic assumption that life without a mate is not just discontented but dud.
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Unavoidably, the climate of fear which feels as though it currently has the Western world in a chokehold was a big topic of onstage conversation last night, but the band's "fuck you" attitude meant that it was a source of laughs rather than lamentation or self-pity.
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Confining a bunch of them alongside her in that party bus as she spiraled into self-pity was an eye-opening experience for everyone, and it let all the supporting players in Rebecca's life react in a way that naturally built on eight episodes' worth of sporadic character development.
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Trump can tell Xi that his government needs to stop complaining about having been left out — the self-pity has worn thin and is not worthy of a rising great power, especially one not at all reluctant to bully smaller parties such as Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries.
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My grandfather, who came to this continent on a boat, alone, from Liverpool, England, at the age of 9, and my father, who studied at night and worked so hard to escape the shoe factory system of mid-20th-century America, would both not understand such self-pity.
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It turns out that the man we knew in public, who faced terminal cancer with great calm and not a drop of self-pity — " I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can," he wrote in "My Own Life" — was just as collected in private.
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" She said that while it is not the time for "self-pity," she was frustrated that she could not "reduce the pressure on my frontline police officers" or is able to "pacify the large number of peaceful protesters who are so angry with the government, with me in particular.
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SEOUL, South Korea — As the protests against her have grown larger, louder and closer, and her career, reputation and presidency march inexorably toward an impeachment vote on Friday, President Park Geun-hye has kept mostly hidden from public view, gripped by self-pity and despair, and largely alone.
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In the post-mortem of this election, after they get past their "I can't believe I live in a country that elected this man" self-pity, if Democrats are honest with themselves — I mean really, truly honest with themselves — they will realize that they essentially coronated an incredibly flawed candidate.
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Not by accident did he put on that 77-minute performance for the media — hurling insults, flinging lies, marinating in self-pity, luxuriating in self-love — just three days after the resignation of his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and amid intensifying questions about collusion between Team Trump and the Russians.
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But it also turns out that just sinking viewers further into a character's self-pity and loathing doesn't make for very good TV. Really, the only people who were punished in Season 2 of Punisher was anyone who bothered caring about the battle for Frank Castle's moral soul in the first place.
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Far from serving as an excuse for self-pity or left melancholy, it functioned as an effective counter-inaugural: a ceremony marking the beginning of a wider commitment to shared struggle, and a chance to begin to think together about how best to operate within these new parameters of aesthetic and political practice.
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Yet Killing never quite rises to the level of tragedy: Steven, played with quivering self-pity by Farrell, may be a successful physician undone by his own vices, but he's never a hero; his tormentor is more imp than Iago; the drama is inhuman and, uncharacteristically for Lanthimos, it isn't funny either.
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Mr. Goerne interwove the Eisler selections with 19th-century songs that traced a lineage going back to the broody Romanticism of Schumann's "The Hermit" and "Loneliness" and the chromatic prickliness of Hugo Wolf's settings of some of the "Harper's Songs" from Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship," with their almost masochistic self pity. Bleak?
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Letters To the Editor: Re " 'They Were Never Going to Let Me Be President,' " by Amy Chozick (Sunday Review, April 22): Hillary Clinton's statement on election night that "they were never going to let me be president" is not only incorrect but unfortunately finds the former first lady wallowing in self-pity.
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Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE continues her self-pity tour, suggesting nearly daily that evil sexist Americans are responsible for her current plight.
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She was an intuitive and visionary champion of contemporary authors, a voracious bookworm, a tireless hobnobber, a snappy dresser and a lifelong dog-lover (of tiny, fluffy ones, not of the imposing, austere borzoi she chose to grace the Knopf colophon, a breed she regarded as "cowardly, stupid, disloyal, and full of self-pity").
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The first two episodes, which will premiere back to back, underscore a peculiar strain of faux-reluctant reality-TV players who combine self-pity with a lack of self-awareness, as Jenner insists that she hasn't mastered "this fame thing" like her telegenic brood while inviting a camera crew to follow her around like a puppy.
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He grasps the gritty issues surrounding his own very real trauma and often horrific experiences — from enduring frequent convulsions and losses of consciousness to the threat of being thrown out of college to losing jobs — with so little self-pity and so much regard for the compensations the world has to offer even to those afflicted as he is.
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This post ran originally on THUMP UK. Here's how I spent last night, alone with nothing but cold pizza and self-pity for company: I put on an acid house record—maybe "Rise From Your Grave" by Phuture—and halfway through it, I did the loudest impression I could of the most cliched kind of male orgasm imaginable.
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"It is the great and remarkable strength of this book that, even in the face of the relentless grinding down of the human spirit — entry after entry loaded with calamity and cleanup, despair, frustration, guilt, self-pity and rage, stress beyond anyone's normal ability or even duty to tolerate — the reader feels compelled to read on," she said.
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Now was no time for self-pity, she said, and yet she went on to lament, choking up at times, that she no longer dared to go out for shopping or to get her hair done, for fear of being met by throngs of young people in black T-shirts and black masks (black is the protesters' preferred color).
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Although you're unlikely to find many Equinox regulars practicing "Indian clubs"—a centuries-old exercise that involves the practitioner swinging around elongated bowling pins; it made two brief appearances at the Olympics in 280 and 21982, a USA sweep both times—the self-pity, dread, and evasive bargaining that precede a scheduled workout remain very much the same.
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Each time Russia has been accused of having a hand in acts like the seizure of Ukrainian government buildings in Crimea or the 20013 shooting down of a Malaysian passenger plane over eastern Ukraine, in which nearly 300 people were killed, Moscow has responded with a mix of self-pity, fierce denials and florid conspiracy theories that put the blame elsewhere.
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Many of the memorable touchstones of the early Bush years might be defined as emo, which began as a musical style in the mid-80s born from the hardcore punk scene in Washington, D.C., and reached its commercial peak in the early 2000s, coming to redefine all aspects of (white) late capitalism through a lens of narcissism, privilege, misogyny and self-pity.
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Late in Marriage Story, each spouse performs part of a song from Stephen Sondheim's musical Company, Nicole gallivanting through "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" with her mother and sister, Charlie ending a night at a bar with a solo rendition of "Being Alive" that's no less affecting for its whiff of a man somewhat trapped in his own theatrical self-pity.
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Watching the Steve's films, it made me reflect on how much resentment I've let seep into my own life, how often I've held a friend's success against them, how often I've wasted days wallowing in self-pity because I didn't get something that I thought I deserved because of how good and smart I am and how stupid I thought the world is for not recognizing that.
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"The Trump White House cannot claim with any credibility that impeachment is keeping the president from doing his job when he tweets almost 100 times in 24 hours, with much of it ranging from mocking a 16-year-old girl to various forms of self-pity," Fisk added, referring to the president's recent marathon tweetstorms and his criticism of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg.
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Hillis walks her bachelor lady readers through the joys and pitfalls of the experience — how to convince yourself that the noise in the next room was not a robber, why self-pity is the enemy, what liquor a woman should always have on hand (and how to store it if your apartment doesn't have a fridge), and why one's bed is the only civilized place to eat breakfast.
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In this election cycle, no faction on the Democratic side more richly deserves rebuking than the one Biden singled out — which is not, of course, anywhere close to the entire millennial generation (roughly 80 million strong), or their younger siblings in Gen Z. But it is that part of these younger generations that specializes in histrionic self-pity and moral self-righteousness, usually communicated via social media with maximum snark.
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Throughout "In Pieces," she assesses herself with a clear and critical eye, often revealing unappealing parts of herself — including her temper, her insecurity, her absences from her sons' lives while she pursued her work, her role in her two failed marriages and her flares of impatience with her mother, who dedicated the last years of her life to helping take care of Field's sons — with minimal rationalization, sentiment or self-pity.
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As she unravels the threads of her itinerant upbringing — of feigned orphandom, of sleeping in freight cars and beneath the dining tables of communal apartments, of the fugitive pleasures of scraps of food — we see, both in her remarkable lack of self-pity and in the two dozen photographs throughout the text, her feral instinct and the crucible in which her gift for giving voice to a nation of survivors was forged.
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There are certain connotations associated with chumak and makgulli, parallel to the western myth of the suffering male artist, who, tormented by the force of his own creativity and by the paralyzing, incomprehensible absurdities of the world that suppress him, finds, in the sweet oblivion of alcohol (and in the equally mystifying and unfathomable thing called woman) a warm solace, a respite from narcissism and self-pity, a fleeting yet sure-fire corporeal comfort.
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Meanwhile, boy starts hearing terrifying voices in his head, beset by demons from within and without (his sadistic tyrant of a father, his asshole cousin) boy loses mind and, eventually, the confidence of his band mates who pull the plug on his game-changing "teenage symphony to God" originally called Dumb Angel, but later re-titled Smile, boy retreats into a years-long bedroom hermitage of Herculean drug consumption, morbid obesity and sweet insanity; columnated ruins domino, family hires Mephistophelian psychiatrist/psychic vampire Dr. Eugene Landy, who switches out boy's steady diet of cocaine, Scotch, sloth, and self-pity for a zombie-fying regimen of prescription narcotics, fitness Nazism, and 24-7 mind control; boy meets girl (Melinda Ledbetter, his soon-to-be second wife) at a Cadillac dealership and falls in love, girl rescues boy from the clutches of the evil doctor, boy lives happily ever after, or a reasonably close approximation thereof.
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AriesStrengths: courageous, determined, confident, enthusiastic, optimistic, honest, passionateWeaknesses: impatient, moody, short-tempered, impulsive, aggressive TaurusStrengths: reliable, patient, practical, devoted, responsible, stableWeaknesses: stubborn, possessive, uncompromising GeminiStrengths: gentle, affectionate, curious, adaptable, ability to learn quickly and exchange ideasWeaknesses: nervous, inconsistent, indecisive CancerStrengths: tenacious, highly imaginative, loyal, emotional, sympathetic, persuasiveWeaknesses: moody, pessimistic, suspicious, manipulative, insecure LeoStrengths: creative, passionate, generous, warm-hearted, cheerful, humorousWeaknesses: arrogant, stubborn, self-centered, lazy, inflexible VirgoStrengths: loyal, analytical, kind, hardworking, practicalWeaknesses: shyness, worry, overly critical of self and others, all work and no play LibraStrengths: cooperative, diplomatic, gracious, fair-minded, socialWeaknesses: indecisive, avoids confrontations, will carry a grudge, self-pity ScorpioStrengths: resourceful, brave, passionate, stubborn, a true friendWeaknesses: distrusting, jealous, secretive, violent SagittariusStrengths: generous, idealistic, great sense of humorWeaknesses: promises more than can deliver, very impatient, will say anything no matter how undiplomatic CapricornStrengths: responsible, disciplined, self-control, good managersWeaknesses: know-it-all, unforgiving, condescending, expecting the worst AquariusStrengths: Progressive, original, independent, humanitarianWeaknesses: Runs from emotional expression, temperamental, uncompromising, aloof PiscesStrengths: Compassionate, artistic, intuitive, gentle, wise, musicalWeaknesses: Fearful, overly trusting, sad, desire to escape reality, can be a victim or a martyr
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I was searching the book's index for something else when I came across " CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES ": character : refusal to accept blame, xii, 7, 11, 19923, 43, 270, 335; self-doubt, xii, 11, 16, 90, 153-4; disloyalty, xiii-xiv, 4-19793, 13, 14, 26-7, 51, 96-7, 162, 210, 43, 335, 337; victims of, xiii-xiv; 50-1, 93-4, 96-7, 210, 463, 310-11; dislike of criticism/dissenting views, xiv, 9, 11, 46, 52, 55, 74-5, 19973; scapegoats, 7, 14, 18, 129, 162; self-pity, 7-8, 12-14, 20033, 36, 38, 41, 43, 67-8, 243, 257; intolerance/bad temper, 9, 20093, 13, 14, 29, 49, 52, 125, 335; sense of superiority, 11, 43, 20183, 58, 76; grudges, 13, 14, 49, 335; selfishness, 14, 27, 62, 20163, 210, 230, 319, 24; resentment of Diana, 246-21997, 22003; derogatory comments about Diana, 22009, 22018, 19813; on himself, 21981-22017, 21959-8; discourteousness, 52, 88, 126, 138, 314-20173, 322 Bower portrays Charles as a persnickety rank-puller, who, apparently, once had his own bedroom furniture sent to a friend's house in advance of a weekend stay.
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