self-absorption

Example Sentences

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While my dogs mostly cater to my human self-absorption, my cats have been self-absorbed beings of their own.

From Salon

I said that an education grounded in self-absorption would inevitably yield to a nation full of self-absorbed people.

From Washington Times

In place of a traditional plot, we’re given vignettes of quiet despair or anecdotes of minor irritation all distilled into a syrup of poisonous self-absorption.

From Washington Post

What concerns me more than her exercise in futility, though, is her exercise in self-absorption.

From Washington Post

By the time Beauvais dismisses some chestnut trees as “bland,” the movie screams nothing so much as the pained self-absorption of depression — an anguished revelation, but dead-on.

From New York Times