“... development. Unlike modern estates, which tend to be tacked onto existing conurbations, it was self-sufficient. It had schools, shops, pubs and a large church. ‘It was fantastic,’ Whitley says. ‘Well-made houses, big gardens, plenty of open spaces, football pitches. The buses from Cammell Laird to the docks used to flood the estate.’Forty years ...”

“... and humans would go extinct before Musk could safeguard the future of the species by creating a self-sustaining colony on Mars, the raison d’être of his company SpaceX.* He said that if his companies didn’t make it, ‘humanity was fucked.’ He was at the mercy of journalists, but they were ‘idiots’ who had it in for him. He contemplated launching ...”

“... means lively, with a hint at wicked. This inaugural descant at once yields, by way of self-correction, to compliments paid to the trio of eye, smile and foot. Lockwood, after all, has already shown himself amply susceptible to such manifestations. At which point the sentence begins in earnest. Marshalled by semi-colons, its three further ...”

“... all’ personal reflections by Nobel-stature scientists themselves, most of which turn out to be self-celebrations, but it’s hard to think of any performance quite like The Impossible Man.Penrose’s father and mother were both cold and distant; polyhedral puzzles were one of the few vehicles for father-son contact. That’s one reason the puzzles were ...”

“... interviews (down to the quip about the watch), and it’s the image he presents in Unredacted, a self-exculpatory and score-settling memoir in which he represents himself as a truth-seeker standing up to a clueless cross-Atlantic establishment.Steele was born on a UK military base in Aden and spent time as a child at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus – the base for ...”

“... what you found there.The experience of using a chatbot powered by an LLM is, by contrast, largely self-contained. You can usually prompt it to say something about its sources, but that’s a bit like the ‘further reading’ at the end of a textbook chapter: you know you should read them, but you probably won’t. It’s seductively easy to treat a chatbot ...”

“... Her granddaughter adored her accent and her refined manners. As the middle child, Britney was both self-sufficient and eager for attention. She doted on her older brother, Bryan, and her baby sister, Jamie Lynn. Britney’s talent for singing and dancing was apparent from the age of four. Lynne took her to dance classes, gymnastics, singing competitions and TV ...”

“... about this one, written, one has to say, under the stress of illness and in extreme haste. Self-perception is distorted enough in the healthy, God knows what it is like in those gripped by terminal illness. Don’t ask me: I’m terminally ill.I am 36 years old, a teacher of literature, and I am dying of leukaemia. I have fought the thing for two ...”

“... it what you will – the same indolence, the same love of pleasure, the same undue appreciation of self.’ Or Lord John Russell to Lord Landsdowne in October 1846: ‘The common delusion that government can convert a period of scarcity into a period of abundance is one of the most mischievous that can be entertained. But alas! the Irish have been taught many ...”

“... tone, which will slowly become that of the last five years of Wilde’s life. It is petulant and self-pitying; it lacks all the style, irony and sense of mischief which Wilde had been working on for twenty years. It is as though he has ceased to be the Platonic conception of himself and become Sir William Wilde’s son, full of his own importance and only ...”

“... enthusiasm. But when he came to write The New Few, an assault on Britain’s fall into the grip of self-seeking oligarchies of one kind or another, he made it clear that the EU was a still more extreme case of the same disease, in a chapter entitled ‘Stuck on the Eurostar’. These European symptoms didn’t leave Britain unaffected. ‘Belonging to the EU ...”

“... which Akerman chain-smokes, bringing her palm to cover her face each time she inhales. She is both self-assured and adolescent: she plays with her watchstrap and her shoe and looks rather disengaged. Her answers are straightforward. To the interviewer’s question about her use of an all-woman crew for Jeanne Dielman, she answers that girls often don’t get ...”

“... at, a sequence of embodied apparitions’. Lowell, needless to say, transforms Prometheus into a self-doubting intellectual, wracked less by his chains and the eagle than by moral anxieties about his own obsessional and transgressive behaviour: ‘I think I should have been more loyal to the idiocy of things,’ he tells the Daughters of Ocean, who function ...”

“... took more votes than either centre-left or centre-right from manual workers, small entrepreneurs, self-employed, students and jobless; the centre-right prevailed only among housewives, the centre-left among pensioners and white-collar workers. Such was the electoral arithmetic. Parliamentary numbers were another matter. Central to the Second Republic had ...”

“... insists on the laws of make-believe, on the fictionality of fiction, on its intertextuality, its self-referential ploys, on all the games and gimmicks taken so seriously by university wits. Davies takes them playfully, and indeed with dazzling skill, but his playfulness somewhat coldly deconstructs those notions to which sentimental old-timers (ARRO ...”