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Yet in a further confirmation of the place Panama held in Americans’ self-image of their selfless role in the world, popular opinion disagreed.
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Julie Greene / Made By History, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
That insult may or may not be true, but Los Angeles is also a very real place where working people live, people whose lives and livelihoods (and, yes, self-images, because one thing this city has always understood is that images are also actualities) have now been violently upended.
—Matthew Specktor, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
After decades of morally simplistic cowboys-and-Indians movies that reinforced the intrepid self-image of a rising world power, revisionist westerns proliferated during the Vietnam War, critiquing the violence of white imperialism.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
One of the 12 traits of a narcissist, this need for admiration fuels the boss’ drive for recognition—and not just any recognition, but the kind that feeds their self-image as exceptional.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Julie Greene / Made By History, TIME, 22 Jan. 2025
That insult may or may not be true, but Los Angeles is also a very real place where working people live, people whose lives and livelihoods (and, yes, self-images, because one thing this city has always understood is that images are also actualities) have now been violently upended.
—Matthew Specktor, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
After decades of morally simplistic cowboys-and-Indians movies that reinforced the intrepid self-image of a rising world power, revisionist westerns proliferated during the Vietnam War, critiquing the violence of white imperialism.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
One of the 12 traits of a narcissist, this need for admiration fuels the boss’ drive for recognition—and not just any recognition, but the kind that feeds their self-image as exceptional.
—Mark Murphy, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Self-image.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-image. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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self-image
noun
self-im·age
-ˈim-ij 
: one's conception of oneself or of one's role
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