For instance, an abdominal lift might be covered below the navel, but not above.
Still, the whole incident should prompt some navel gazing for those who write and read news.
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Other creative processes fail when navel-gazing and reflection fail to make it to the prototype phase.
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None, so far: its members are too busy navel-gazing at institutions, constitutions and the like.
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On economic policy, as on much else, the Democratic Party is engaged massively in navel-gazing.
In this procedure, a small incision is made in the abdomen, near or in the navel.
He was scared to wash the wound that ran from chest to navel, an infection risk.
In the real world, away from such institutional navel-gazing, why is a mood of anxiety and concern justified?
" He added: "For her, freedom and emotional coherence are something very specifically situated south of the navel.
This topic inevitably descends into navel-gazing, and this post will be no exception.
Trend watching can be a combination of navel gazing and crystal ball massage.
Does this matter beyond those of us whose salaries depend on the outcome, and who might be accused of navel-gazing?
It showed a cyst on his navel, which could have potentially led to cancer, so a surgical procedure was necessary.
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Navel oranges, grown in California for more than a century and also seedless, still occupy several times more acreage than Cuties.
However, "we have definitely lost some navel business domestically, " says Mark Gillette, chairman of the board of Sunkist, the citrus cooperative.
Westminster, you think, is awash with the things, pundits and hacks commenting on each other's utterances in an ever-increasing circle of internal navel gazing.
Extreme navel-gazing is probably as old as staring at the stars.
Lifting an urban-marketing trick perfected by smaller companies, the carmaker is lending its new model, the Focus SE, to stylish hipsters--club kids, disc jockeys, the earring-in-the-navel set.
There's nothing more frustrating when reading a story or when watching a movie than being led off at a tangent as the author indulges in some pointless navel-gazing.
But Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg criticised his coalition partners about their "endless navel-gazing over Europe, " which he said was in danger of distracting the government from its priorities.
Labu has been using a system of huge fans and warm water and hard work to try to keep at least some of the navel oranges on his thousand acred orchard viable.
Amid all the media navel-gazing there seems to be a genuine fear that the press feels it is no longer drinking in "The Last Chance Saloon" but time has already been called.
Yet with Lisbon now entering into force, it is time to move on from the EU's introspective decade of institutional navel-gazing and turn to the pressing task of making it work better.
The cumulative effect of the camera work, music, costumes and editing is one of exhilaration, a zest for life at odds with the navel-gazing that marred so many films of the New Wave.
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With Europe's populations weary of the constitutional navel-gazing and foreign policy grandstanding which seems to preoccupy their leaders so often, the Barcelona meeting is a chance to demonstrate their concern with bread-and-butter issues like jobs.
Among Mexico's intelligentsia, with its navel-gazing tendency to bemoan the malign influence of the United States on every facet of Mexican life, Mr Aguilar Zinser stood out as an internationalist and an enthusiast for democracy in an almost American mode.
The news the USPS will stop delivering mail on saturdays has prompted some post office navel gazing, and with it has come a claim I have seen made before: that the U.S. Postal Service is the most efficient in the world.
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