Recent Examples on the WebBoth thereby apostrophize America’s original sin and permanent crisis: the otherizing of the not white, regardless of gradations. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2019 Schumer brings this to life with the exemplary comedic device of self-apostrophizing asides, in which Emily brandishes her self-esteem to herself as if to compensate for its absence. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 May 2017