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
Lincoln was not a common egoist and he sparingly bared his view.
From Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy
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
When people discuss adultery, the cheater and the other woman are often spoken of harshly as deceivers and egoists.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2012
There is not a grain of malice in their composition; they are cheated and adored by their servants, and naïve egoists as they are, believe everyone is as happy as themselves.
From The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
