Meaning of self-unaware | Babel Free

Definitions

Not self-aware.

Examples

“The list could be compounded enormously, but from such and others like these, definitive interpretations of the plays in which they appear have been promulgated—postulating, say, a schizophrenic Iago, a self-dramatizing Othello, a paranoid Henry IV, a Benedick completely self-unaware, a pattern concerning true and false gold in Romeo and Juliet, and every sort of Gertrude.”

“What are some of the self-unaware things leaders do that drive others nuts? (Let me get you started: talking over people, needing to have the last word, taking credit for other people’s ideas, “punishing” those who point out their mistakes . . . what else?)”

“It is my conviction that we, pastors that is, are far more sexually broken than we are even conscious of or willing to admit. I don’t mean that this is a willful suppression of some dark truth about ourselves—though it could be. As counterintuitive as this may sound, my experience tells me that we may be among some of the most self-unaware people on earth.”

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