self-unaware
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editself-unaware (comparative more self-unaware, superlative most self-unaware)
- Not self-aware.
- 1970, Eugene Paul Nassar, “Shakespeare’s Games with His Audience”, in The Rape of Cinderella: Essays in Literary Continuity, Bloomington, Ind.; London: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, Part I (Continuity), page 112:
- 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.
- 2013, Jodi Detrick, “Terra-Cotta Warriors; Leadership Quality: Self-Awareness”, in The Jesus-Hearted Woman: 10 Leadership Qualities for Enduring & Endearing Influence, Springfield, Mo.: Salubris Resources, →ISBN, page 210:
- 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?)
- 2017, Joel Willitts, “Bent Sexuality and the Pastor”, in Gerald Hiestand, Todd Wilson, editors, Beauty, Order, and Mystery: A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality, Downers Grove, Ill.: IVP Academic, →ISBN, Part 2 (The Beauty and Brokenness of Sexuality), pages 120–121:
- 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.