Thesaurus / self-absorption

self-absorption

How to use self-absorption in a sentence

She could drop into one of her moods of self-absorption, or speak as if she were thinking aloud.

Even were it easy to picture their existence, their self-absorption would prevent their being interesting.

"No," Adriance aroused himself from self-absorption to forbid the upheaval.

A MAN'S HEARTHELEANOR M. INGRAM

He was studying her as he stood before her, seeing suddenly after his momentary self-absorption, her pallor and thinness.

PATHS OF JUDGEMENTANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK

The self-absorption of the men, the calm glances of the women humbled our simple souls.

A certain self-absorption, not personal, but human, has marked almost all attempts to conceive the universe as a whole.

So she gave her whole mind to this business, with as much earnestness and self-absorption as a merchant gives himself to trade.

CAST ADRIFTT. S. ARTHUR

His colour was bad, his eyes vacillated, his mood varied abruptly from violent gaiety to vacant-eyed self-absorption.

She didn't even give me the courtesy of a bow—whether from self-absorption or from haughtiness I don't know; probably from both.

THE DELUGEDAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS

Art seems almost to demand self-absorption, self-cultivation, however noble be the ultimate end it sets in view.

ESSAYSARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985