Percival's 1949 memoir, The War in Malaya, did little to quell this criticism, being a restrained rather than self-serving account of the campaign.

Therefore as a result we have this very self-serving and one-sided and not entirely honest account," she criticised.

The prosecutors proved eager to credit the self-serving accounts of felons, whose reputation for reliability is not high.

Our investigative and interviewing strategy was designed to get beyond potentially self-serving accounts.

It is impossible to know the appeal of any book, perhaps especially one that many critics described as a thin, self-serving account of a potentially riveting story.

The result is an often self-serving account.

But in his sympathetic telling the two high-strung and willful writers both come off better than they did in their self-serving accounts.

Such a record, moreover, makes it difficult for those accused to create fictionalized, self-serving accounts of what occurred.

Spoilers, aka evidence for my argument: even Humbert, despite all his self-serving accounts and claims that Lo seduced him, figures it out eventually.

However, it is crucial that those interested in drawing such lessons base them on all the available evidence and not on selective or self-serving accounts.