This is confessional poetry at its scrupulous best: neither self-dramatising nor self-pitying, but penetrating, focused and unflinching.
If Richard Nixon talked like that, they'd have called him paranoid and self-pitying.
Having been constructed in a self-pitying rage, there are gaps between the logs, untrue angles, a doorframe angrily nailed to the outside.
Davis' subtle enactment of Edgar, who claims deteriorating health, equally embraces his bullying ways, empty swagger and self-pitying, reflective moments of broken spirit.
Over a light reggae sound, we get a self-pitying tale about not fitting in: of not being about to "tell foe or friend".
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Along with millions of working Americans, they are paragons of personal responsibility, not Romney's caricature of self-pitying victims seeking to live off government benefits.
Cynical, acidulous, morose, self-pitying, full of banked rage, Patrick would surely be monstrous to live with, but he is vital company in these novels.
Silverman has the difficult task of maintaining credibility as handsome Giorgio's passion at last improbably turns from the lovely Clara toward the plain, self-pitying Fosca.
Too bad that an editor did not excise the self-pitying self-portrait that unconvincingly brings to an end the strange undercurrents of this unusual family memoir.
Mr. HOLLOWAY: And that stops about halfway through the film when Jean-Do kind of declares to himself in his own internal monologue, I've decided to stop pitying myself.
Ms Blunnie had initially been reluctant to see Mr McLernon but he convinced her to meet him in the early hours with "self-pitying messages designed to gain sympathy", prosecutor Andrew Jackson told the court.
Maddin pulls out all the stops in this elaborate pastiche of silent cinema, home movies, avant-gardish subjectivity, multimedia spectacle, and Grand Guignol hysteria to get at self-pitying childhood traumas that ultimately add up to a strict mother, a distracted father, the primal scene, and his first crush.
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