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self-revelation

[ self-rev-uh-ley-shuhn, self- ]

noun

  1. disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of self-revelation1

First recorded in 1850–55
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It’s kind of like you just have an ideal scenario for self-revelation as it relates to societal injustice or something.

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Lewis: This season, she’s predominantly made up of shame, guilt, denial and then a fierce and ignited purpose of seeking redemption, or self-revelation.

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Mr. Clines once wrote a column on Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet, that might have been a kind of self-revelation, saying: “He fights to keep things basic, to remind himself of the simple wisdom of Finn MacCool, Ireland’s mythic national hero, that the best music in the world is the music of what happens. In his ‘Elegy,’ dedicated to Lowell, Heaney reminded himself:

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Instead, he expands literary tradition so that new political ideas, self-revelation and play can thrive.

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While the erotic thrills are obviously meant to be found in her self-revelation, what seems more thrilling to me is how she works this trap.

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