self-loathing

An industry veteran, Moore had an impressive awards season run, winning the acting prize at the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance as Elisabeth Sparkle in “The Substance,” a film about an actor filled with so much self-loathing that she takes a drug called “the substance” to create a younger version of herself.

In the hours after the shooting, seized by guilt and self-loathing, an inebriated Ferguson wished aloud for the death penalty, demanded to be punched in the face and predicted that he would burn in hell.

The film series, starring Renée Zellweger in the titular role, makes Bridget’s struggle between backward ideas of feminine self-loathing and her intrepid quest for love even more palatable for the average viewer.

Yes, Reubens’ life/work balance evaporates when he starts working on his TV show, but is his being swallowed by his alter ego also a form of self-loathing?

He sees in Orr “a combination of self-loathing and emptiness,” and “the two things that stave that off are the sacred secret that he has, and the notoriety of having the story out there.”