egoist
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The egoist in you will find it hard to resist bragging about the proliferation of butterflies that will flock to the drought-tolerant De La Mina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2022
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
A nervous flier but a bigger egoist, Ali once refused to buckle up when a flight attendant asked him to do so moments before take-off.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2016
The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.
From Forbes ● Sep. 22, 2014
People think of LaFollette, the public man, as an egoist but this nursing of his son showed the utmost absence of egoism.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
This demand gives the lie to a common misconception of liberalism, namely, that it is an ethic of insouciant self-indulgence, a politics for blithe egoists.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
Finally, the game must be the undisputed king, and all the egoists and agitators would do well to fall in line.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
“Austria cannot afford any egoists right now,” he said.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
The second is the assumption that human behaviour – of employees, customers, managers and so on – is best understood as if we are all rational egoists.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 27, 2018
To be sure there were partners, but after the fashion of great egoists Mr. Planter had avoided admitting any outstanding personality to his firm.
From The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp
