How to Use self-hatred in a Sentence
self-hatred
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There’s a lot of self-hatred buried deep in the character, and excavating that is one of the many levels on which the movie succeeds.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2023
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There are lots of ways that Spider can be read as a metaphor—for depression, terror, self-hatred—but this is a story with a lot of very concrete action.
—Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
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Imposter syndrome had stiff competition against my self-hatred at that point.
—Diana Pearl, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
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If her life with her kids had been chaotic, hustling to survive in the pill mill economy and dealing with multiple arrests, her life without them was a black hole of shame and self-hatred.
—Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline is only notable for exposing Western media’s self-hatred.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Apr. 2023
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Zubrin notes, some of these folks are so filled with self-hatred that their real objective is to remove other human beings from the Earth or at least make their lives as short, dark, and miserable as possible.
—Greg Autry, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
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Sakuzo wanders — begging for change, cadging meals, working to conquer his homesickness and self-hatred — are every bit as Angeleno as Chandler’s and West’s.
—Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
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This includes feeling overwhelmed, pessimistic, letting emotions control you, self-hatred and building walls between yourself and others.
—Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
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Larry David — the character — is essentially merry, quintessentially secure, and startlingly untroubled by self-hatred to the very end.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
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As an openly gay man, to submit to this kind of typecasting brings up feelings of self-hatred and internalized homophobia, and Armendáriz doesn’t want his wrestling persona to have ties to society’s negative views on his sexuality.
—Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2023
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Many African writers accused him of cynicism or even self-hatred, though later generations would praise him for asserting literature’s independence from nativism.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
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Classmates’ comments and media representations of women discipline her into heartbreaking shame and self-hatred.
—Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2024
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