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But the voiceovers also feel like lumps of prose in a film too busy navel-gazing to build narrative shape or momentum.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
This is a coach who can’t see far enough past his own nose to understand that in moments of defeat, a coach’s sole job isn’t navel-gazing.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
The policy navel-gazing is centering around three debates.
—Jana Randow, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
Self-reliance was encouraged, but not introspection (navel-gazing, ugh).
—Sigrid Nunez, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
It should be noted that there was plenty of navel-gazing and hand-wringing by the fashion press when the Pharrell news broke, but in a way, his appointment is simply the evolution of a narrative going back 100 years or more.
—Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2023
To debate grand strategy is to indulge in navel-gazing while the world burns.
—Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
Claims that a political gerontocracy is somehow undermining American democracy — the theme of so much political navel-gazing — simply don’t hold water.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
Books More navel-gazing, please.
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2024
This is a coach who can’t see far enough past his own nose to understand that in moments of defeat, a coach’s sole job isn’t navel-gazing.
—Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
The policy navel-gazing is centering around three debates.
—Jana Randow, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
Self-reliance was encouraged, but not introspection (navel-gazing, ugh).
—Sigrid Nunez, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
It should be noted that there was plenty of navel-gazing and hand-wringing by the fashion press when the Pharrell news broke, but in a way, his appointment is simply the evolution of a narrative going back 100 years or more.
—Max Berlinger, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2023
To debate grand strategy is to indulge in navel-gazing while the world burns.
—Daniel W. Drezner, Foreign Affairs, 13 Apr. 2020
Claims that a political gerontocracy is somehow undermining American democracy — the theme of so much political navel-gazing — simply don’t hold water.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
Books More navel-gazing, please.
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
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“Navel-gazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/navel-gazing. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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