“... the West Bank by annexing most of the land and handing back the leftovers to Jordan or Palestinian self-rule. The Palestinians will now be dispersed between an isolated Gaza, bits and pieces of the West Bank and an isolated east Jerusalem. Oslo and Camp David repackaged this basic idea. Sharon is just less subtle than Rabin, Peres and Barak. The strategic ...”

“... they are supposed to be. The problem is that Colin Farrell, as Crockett, is not up to this kind of self-parody, and Jamie Foxx, as Tubbs, who probably is up to it, doesn’t get a chance to try. The movie has done some odd things to the two main characters of the series. Johnson had a touch of sleaze and defeat about him which it would be hard to ...”

“... needs to make a phone-call. He also involves himself as sketchily as possible in ITV’s incessant self-promotion. Most of the ‘only on this channel’ stridency is handled by captions and voice-overs. One of the great BBC Lynam moments in the 1998 World Cup came just before the England v. Tunisia match – an afternoon fixture and unshiftable. There was ...”

“... never heard of’. She has adapted only too well. Nicknamed ‘Twinkle’, she is so self-assured and boisterous that one ought to hate her; but Lahiri conveys her irresistible charm with such skill that one doesn’t. Not many writers are good at conveying charm (as opposed to its effect on other characters). Tolstoy did with Natasha in War and ...”

“... have read In the Blue Light of African Dreams. So why does Watkins bother with these forays into self-referential territory? The answer would seem to have something to do with the subject of forgery, of producing an invented artefact that looks like a genuine one. Watkins appears to be fascinated with the way fictional worlds can be made to resemble the real ...”

“... Grote has what the 18th century called bottom; and today, in an age when showmanship and self-advertisement may seem necessary to the historian as public intellectual, it is a quality especially to be ...”

“... and a faux-leather jacket; he’d worn a gold stud in his bumpy, porous old nose, and had pushed self-reliance and individualism and risk-taking in a hopeless tone, as if even he no longer believed in them. Once in a while . . . he’d say: ‘I coulda been a contender.’ Jimmy, too, coulda been a contender, but he is more interested in ...”

“... also suffered the worst of the economic sanctions. Where Kurdish infant mortality declined under self-rule, theirs rose tenfold or more under Saddam. And the blame for sanctions fell on the United States for compelling the United Nations to renew them each year. Whenever Saddam pops up on Iraqi television to show his people that the US has failed once again ...”

“... too. I am writing myself into my own story, and I am telling it from within.’ Well, yes and no. Self-defeating though the authentic-manuscript game may be, play along with it, take it to its logical conclusion, and you run up against an interesting question of appropriation. There is no framing narrative to explain how we come to be reading Matt’s ...”

“... when you were a girl, that is true. How have you become Céline? I love you anyway. Love, Self The transplanted features of a realist novel are still recognisable here – that detail of the boys with their ‘skateboards aloft like swords’, for example – but the tendency is towards the free association and creepy lyricism of Mrs ...”

“... by Wang Hai ‘Father’ (1980) by Luo Zhongli ‘The Third Generation’ (1984) by Hu Duoling ‘Self Portrait – A Subjugated Soul’ (1985-9) by Cai Guo ‘Human Beings with their Clock No. 2’ (1987) by Ziang Jianjun ‘Big Mouth’ (1988) by Wang Keping ‘Series of Abysses 1-6’ (1991) by Zhang Xiaogang ‘Mask’ (1999) by Zeng Fanzhi ‘Evening ...”

“... In this respect the glorious Windows of Delaunay reflects on picturing in a way that rivals any self-aware painting by Velázquez or Vermeer. Robert Delaunay, ‘Windows’ (1912). So if ‘the demise of painting in its traditional form’ was not total, what about the ‘opening to the practices of the century to come’? Inventing Abstraction ...”

“... of the novel hinges in part on its perfect symmetry of style and subject. A woman of extravagant self-conception doomed to mediocrity in the banlieue of Yonville – someone, as Lydia Davis put it, ‘whose character fatally determined the course of her life’ – is mirrored in a prose in which intention and automatism, will and fate, are themselves ...”

“... variety of leaves have been exhaustively documented by botanists over the centuries. Linnaeus, the self-styled father of modern botany, listed more than sixty different types of simple leaf (i.e. leaves not divided into separate leaflets – or compound leaves – of which he distinguished a mere 18 types), all with their appropriate terminology. For ...”

“... after Karakozov’s attack. Chernyshevsky intended his character to be a parody of the self-sacrificing saint, an object of amusement and ridicule rather than emulation. Verhoeven also suggests that Karakozov influenced Crime and Punishment, which Dostoevsky was writing for serialised publication at the time. Thanks to Karakozov, she ...”