egotism

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He is intensely competitive but without any of the suffocating self-seriousness or egotism of so many superstars.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2024

Navalny was a social-media phenomenon, a charismatic speaker with some of the egotism of a natural-born leader.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2024

The single-actor format and clever use of camerawork give visual expression to the novel’s themes of overweening egotism and existential dread.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2024

Wells writes that “it is part of the excessive egotism of the human animal that the bare idea of its extinction seems incredible to it.”

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald