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self-contemplation
[ self-kon-tuhm-pley-shuhn, self- ]
noun
- the act or process of thinking about oneself or one's values, beliefs, behavior, etc.
Example Sentences
“You don’t have to look far to find a literary writer who misses deadlines and goes on long bouts of self-contemplation,” he said.
At the Rubin Museum of Art, employees have started to ask similar questions of their own collection of Tibetan and Nepalese objects perfectly suited for the art of self-contemplation.
By placing visitors in a position of self-contemplation, she hoped to encourage them to question their beliefs in those systems.
For Roth, Portnoy set the template for all his work, the exquisite torture of literary self-contemplation.
There is much food for self-contemplation on the part of the generation that came to maturity in the 1960s, and it’s a popular theme among British novelists born in the 1940s.
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