self-absorption
Example Sentences
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A slate of songs by Charli XCX captures Catherine’s tragic self-absorption without seeming jarringly modern.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
Having spent the last seven years in a state of self-absorption — or, as his ex-girlfriend Lucy later puts it: “You’ve just been up there pouting?” — his new quest is simply to atone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
Jacobs, the prop master, is encouraged that the show’s carefully selected signifiers of wealth, status, self-absorption and poor taste are still being appreciated by fans.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2024
Identifying behaviors that make us recoil, like self-absorption and obliviousness, requires an ironic amount of self-reflection.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2023
“Sparrow’s still in the garden, pouting about something,” said Ruby, her self-absorption apparently admitting no hint as to what that something might be.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
