Definition of "self-examining" []

• Given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "John Carey's official biography, William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies 2009, was a scholarly, cool-headed examination of Golding's life and work that presented a "deeply self-examining and self-blaming man", frustrated and obsessed by his personal and professional failings."
• "Whether it is or not, he is never going to know because he is not asking any self-examining questions about his impact on the lives he purports to save."
• "But yes: if a large part of white culture is predicated upon the sovereignty of the individual and small-governemnt, Big-C conversativism, then yeah, white culture - which even those of us who aren't 'white' are a part of - needs to do some self-examining."