joys when gazing on their umbilical region, in converse with the Deity". However, phrases such as "contemplating one's navel" or "navel-gazing" are frequently...

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"Navel-gazing, desi style!". Uma Nair, IANS. Indiaglitz.com (3 November 2005). Navel-gazing, desi style!. Glamsham.com. "Bollywood's top 10 navels"....

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and wrote, "That just sums up this season, doesn't it? Navel-gazing followed by more navel-gazing. Look, some of the greatest TV episodes in history have...

March 2018. "James Cameron's Story Of Science Fiction is a solid, albeit navel-gazing, primer". The A.V. Club. 30 April 2018. Archived from the original on...

negative reviews. Roger Moore of Movie Nation described it as "overtly navel-gazing, obscure to the point of suggesting obscurant. It’s a 95 minute exercise...

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proper purpose of charity, directing it inwards, leading to a disordered navel-gazing preoccupation with personal goods in isolation absent proper harmonious...

2023). "'90s pop-punk, bad transportation secretaries, and journalistic navel-gazing". Slow Boring: Matt's Mailbag. Retrieved 4 March 2023. Cassella C (4...

intimate, meandering movies like Richard Linklater's "Before" trilogy; the navel-gazing mumblecore genre; and semi-autobiographical shows from "Curb Your Enthusiasm"...

felt the film was "beautifully drawn" but called its content "pedantic navel-gazing". In 2018, Richard Linklater addressed the potentially controversial...

the film, describing it as "a work of deluded, semi-improvisational navel-gazing". Film critic Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film a positive...

uncritical use of the WRP fosters a breeding ground for relativistic navel-gazing which has no place in the contemporary research university". Owen was...

the film was "sprawlingly picaresque" and "a rambling, labyrinthine, navel-gazing romp." He gave it three out of five stars. However, Peter Bradshaw's...

those terms, [is] a lot of wicked fun." He also noted that, "after the navel-gazing Poison Ivy: Lilly (1996), the franchise returns to its horror roots here...

Globe said, "It's too tempting to roll your eyes at the film's blissful navel-gazing, but Joe Swanberg has an uncanny talent for making the randomness of...

between mother and child; the procreative role of sex; angels...[,] navel gazing...and insignificance. The novels' characters discuss the philosophical...

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completely unrealistic. Political columnist Maureen Dowd termed the film "navel-gazing drivel" in October 2010. The BBC's Mark Kermode listed the film as 4th...

however "feels merely like the depressing apex of this oppressively navel-gazing rap phenomenon's isolation". Alphonse Pierre of Pitchfork defined Megan...

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polemic against former President Bill Clinton, whom he characterizes as "Navel-Gazer-in-Chief". In June 2013, he published the Abraham Lincoln political biography...

capacity for interpretation" in his lyrics, and his appeal to the "constant navel gazing, reflection, solipsism" of generations of "disenfranchised youth", offering...

that the book's release "show[s] a certain amount of self-interest, navel-gazing, and even arrogance from Apple" and that he would "be interested to see...

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again. Turner notes the "goofy production keeps the record from same navel-gazing mythologizing". Veteran continues JPEGMafia's trend of referencing elements...

Ostroff of The Globe and Mail feels that Thank Me Later's "emotional navel-gazing lacks West's often-suffocating self-pity and offers a proper synthesis...

and the rage is both unfocused and leavened with too much narcissistic navel-gazing". Brent DiCrescenzo of Pitchfork described it as "an utter mess". However...