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The foreign minister’s comments were confusing, but his deputy elucidated them in much clearer terms about the government’s self-conception.
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Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Conybeare, a classics scholar, intertwines learned exegesis with examples of Augustine’s human idiosyncrasies, offering illuminating analyses of the philosopher’s seminal texts and ideas—including his theory of original sin—and of the role that his heritage played in his self-conception.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
And this right to dissent, on moral grounds, is something that Zinn rightfully pinpoints as essential to America’s self-conception.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
Musk borrowed his self-conception from these protagonists.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
These are all details of tone and temperament, and the relative absence of obvious and substantial policy achievements is part of the indictment against J.F.K. But the tone of a society is central to its self-conception.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Rather than allow such stereotypes to undercut my budding self-conception, my parents sought to put me into circumstances in which I was required to speak up and demonstrate my intelligence, not just to other people but also—and more importantly—to myself.
—Essence, 20 Sep. 2024
Community, especially among men who have regained their self-conception after a split and those still in process, might well be the answer.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Conybeare, a classics scholar, intertwines learned exegesis with examples of Augustine’s human idiosyncrasies, offering illuminating analyses of the philosopher’s seminal texts and ideas—including his theory of original sin—and of the role that his heritage played in his self-conception.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
And this right to dissent, on moral grounds, is something that Zinn rightfully pinpoints as essential to America’s self-conception.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 30 July 2025
Musk borrowed his self-conception from these protagonists.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
These are all details of tone and temperament, and the relative absence of obvious and substantial policy achievements is part of the indictment against J.F.K. But the tone of a society is central to its self-conception.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Rather than allow such stereotypes to undercut my budding self-conception, my parents sought to put me into circumstances in which I was required to speak up and demonstrate my intelligence, not just to other people but also—and more importantly—to myself.
—Essence, 20 Sep. 2024
Community, especially among men who have regained their self-conception after a split and those still in process, might well be the answer.
—Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Self-conception.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-conception. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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