How to Use self-reflexive in a Sentence

self-reflexive

adjective

• However, the rich subtext of its casting adds a whole new layer that often promises to supersede these self-reflexive gestures.
  — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 Feb. 2026
• An inventive, self-reflexive director, necessity has forced Panahi to stretch the boundaries of film and contort it into new forms.
  — Thomas Page, CNN Money, 16 Jan. 2026
• The self-reflexive qualities of the work go further, and the film can surely be read as a statement about the limits and possibilities of a totally analogue and backwards-gazing practice.
  — Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 17 June 2026
• Though soaps were not without their occasional levity, the earnest self-seriousness of their proceedings often prevented them from engaging in self-reflexive critique.
  — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
• In a recent shining example of self-reflexive satire, Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (translated in 2022 from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell), gives us an 80-year-old Indian woman protagonist whose decision to travel to Pakistan disrupts the family’s expectations of women her age.
  — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025