“... is the place where golfers go to learn to love their mistakes. The term suggests that the feat of self-discipline envisaged will depend on rhetoric as well as on moral or spiritual awareness. In Updike’s Rabbit, Run (1960), Harry Angstrom seems to take the injunction literally: ‘In his head he is talking to the clubs as if they’re women.’ Inherently ...”

“... lives. Thanks, in part, to that sacrifice, the Germans never had enough heavy water to establish a self-sustaining chain reaction in a nuclear pile and could not even begin to make a plutonium bomb. Their experimental pile was constructed with uranium cubes, but these also became unobtainable after an Allied air-raid on the plant that made them. The Germans ...”

“... original confession. He now claims that he never intended to murder either man. He only acted in self-defence – Pereira fired at him first.Pelado’s family had moved to Brazil’s north-west corner during the dictatorship, and he grew up in the Javari Valley. He was four when a pair of Petrobrás oil surveyors were clubbed to death by Korubo warriors; in ...”

“... a Brahmin with an Apple watch is turning up to bless the well. Then come the experts, many self-appointed, and the spokesmen for pressure groups and politicians. Once or twice a worrying explanation for the miraculous event is suggested – that it’s a consequence of glaciers melting in the Himalayas (disconcertingly described at one point as ...”

“... been drawn to film for similar reasons: in Cooper’s phrasing, ‘the safety of repetition’, ‘self-protection’, a way of enjoying one’s ‘separateness’ and an opportunity for ‘inner identification’, as well as an occasion for pleasure and a source of education. Until Brian becomes a BFI regular, we are told in the opening paragraph, his ...”

“... thought, both their voices rose in pitch like children’s voices. At moments of greatest sexual self-consciousness they would find themselves using baby talk: ‘You want to play?’ she said. He said, ‘Sometimes, I still think of you having sex with that man the day before we got married.’ ‘Do you?’ ‘I wonder why I still do, and why it gets me ...”

“... can’t be achieved by staying with him when she wanted to. ‘If any man had proved sufficiently self-centred and commonplace to attempt my subjugation,’ she writes about the fear of abandoning herself to love, a fear that comes up again and again, ‘I would have judged him, found him wanting, and left him.’ Perhaps Beauvoir’s independence was ...”

“... mobilisation that successfully prevented disease in low-income countries: universal lockdowns, self-isolation, masking, quarantine and tracing – by people, not apps – of all those whom sick people have been in contact with. Yet in his short video message Hancock was speaking the old language of Americans and Europeans, coming up with a tech solution ...”

“... enforceable, the adoption of the Act without Scottish consent illustrates that mechanisms based on self-restraint and mutual trust break down, with serious implications for the stability of the UK.What’s more, the UK government challenged the Scottish Parliament’s own 2018 EU Continuity Bill (which would have enabled some differentiation for Brexit in ...”

“... with the smallest historical railways-related facticle verges, perhaps deliberately, on self-parody. (On the history of dining cars: ‘A straw in the wind was the abandonment of croutons with the soup course, after the Pullman company was finally absorbed into the nationalised system in 1962.’) But Bradley is able to set his enthusiasm aside to ...”

“... does anything show quite so clearly the price it had to pay for its own machinations, cover-up and self-deception. The army lied. And once its prestige and standing had been compromised by the first lie – the wrongful accusation of Dreyfus – it became even more important for it to lie over and over again. Crushed by defeat in the war with Prussia and the ...”

“... accusation and urgent statement, and a set of eloquent meditations on suffering and redemption and self-realisation. It is a love letter and a howl from the depths. Its tone is hushed and wounded. It is written with passion, intensity and some wonderfully structured sentences. It is lofty, haughty, proud, and also humble, soft-toned, penitent. It was written ...”

“... bureaucrats still speak of the virtue of the echt British practice of ‘muddling through’. Self-denying master of Europe, Germany knows that Brexit is a wake-up call of some kind, but it still takes what Hegel described as the valet’s perspective on the future of the continent. Thomas Meaney GreeceTwo years ago, David Cameron saw himself out of ...”

“... might prefer to meet Stein, partly because Stein herself played with ideas of the portrait and the self-portrait, but also because the ways she did this seem so confusing to us, with our idea of the confessional. Her style is so direct that it’s surprising how much it can hide. Biography seems to be an answer to a sense among some readers that Stein does not ...”

“... in its stride a particularly vicious hurdle, or, cut out the horse, and now I was my own awkward self who hadn’t seen the puddle, and waded straight through it, or who had seen it but hadn’t noticed how deep it was, and slammed down, first one foot, then the other, to make the water splash up over the top of my boots. For a minute or so, I became the ...”