egoist

Example Sentences

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Having killed off the kernel of sweetness at the heart of the young man who’d written “Goodbye, Columbus,” he was free to explore the writer not just as egoist, but as stag-on-the-make, as bachelor-king.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021

Howard Jacobson’s novella “Pussy,” to be published in Britain in April, is a fairy tale about an egoist from a golden city who falls into a leadership position.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2017

Unlike her two front-of-stage colleagues, McVie isn’t an apparent eccentric or egoist, but rather an understated craftsperson of plaintive easy listening and English soul.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2014

The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.   

From Forbes • Sep. 22, 2014

Baudelaire is an egoist He hated the sentimental sapping of altruism.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles