egoist
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In Season 1, Jamie was introduced as a loud-mouthed egoist with an affinity for flamboyant clothing, often acting as an antagonist for Brett Goldstein’s often angry, introverted Roy Kent.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
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 Charles Baudelaire
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
It is arduous even pretending to be interested in self-absorbed egoists.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2018
Imps are usually egoists; that is to say they think first of themselves.
From Fairy Tales from the German Forests by Margaret Arndt
