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In his final year he joined the Cambridge Apostles, a club that the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper described as “an egregious secret society of self-perpetuating self-admiring narcissi.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

It’s hardly a problem unique to “Titane”: Absent the element of surprise, even the most heroically uncompromising vision often runs the risk of being later dismissed as a showy, self-admiring stunt.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 30, 2021

O’Neill wasn’t wrong, though, in the self-admiring assessment he made in a 1940 letter to the critic George Jean Nathan, to whom he had sent an early draft.

From New York Times Apr. 26, 2018

Like many self-appointed saviors, Haftar spoke with a certain self-admiring fatalism.

From The New Yorker Feb. 16, 2015

Truly 'tis not the self-admiring boy Nymph Echo longed so vainly to enjoy; Yet the old classic fable hath a phase Which seems to fit the opprobrium of our days.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 23, 1892 by Various




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