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self-referential
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self-ref·er·en·tial (slfrf-rnshl)
adj.
Referring to oneself or itself: The biographer's account of the poet's life was surprisingly self-referential.

self-refer·ence n.
self-refer·ential·ly adv.


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The cleanliness of Bruni's Florence thus, for Biow, self-referentially figures the classicizing purity of his language.
No longer an upper-middle-class gamesman, Wyke is the thuggish author of thrillers, and almost the only joke in this disastrous movie is Pinter calling him 'the Master of Menace', thus self-referentially evoking the phrase that has been associated with him from early in his career when Irving Wardle, Kenneth Tynan's deputy on this paper (and later theatre critic of the Times), used the term 'comedy of menace' to describe Pinter in a 1958 article in Encore.
Nelson takes a leaf out of Gregor Schneider's book, and out of Christoph Buchel's, in the sprawling ambition of his project, but where the former tunnels ever inward toward his own psyche and the latter conjures fully coherent situations based on the pathologies of others, Nelson takes a broader view, roping in fragments of a story that proliferates as endlessly and self-referentially as Lem's strategically maddening text.
 
 
 
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