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
It’s egoist to want to procreate — I don’t need there to be another version of me.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2021
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
Systematically to ignore these relations, then, is to act as if I were an egoist in the extremest sense, and held that there was no consciousness in the world except my own.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
And so you get blowhards and sycophants, egoists and ignoramuses mixed in among those just striving to be dedicated public servants.
From Washington Post ● May 10, 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
Famous death fraudsters tend to be grandiose egoists, guys who, like a lot of criminals, believe they are sharp enough to beat the system and deceive the experts.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2016
"There are three sorts of egoists: those who live themselves and let others live; those who live themselves and don't let others live; and those who neither live themselves nor let others live."
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
