self-concerned
Example Sentences
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Vatican insiders say the pope has indeed reduced his interactions but is also trying to appear present — and not self-concerned — during a dark period of global grief and mounting social tensions.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020
But it’s the scope of the comedy that takes it beyond a show merely of the white and the spoiled: It’s about being white and spoiled and self-concerned.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2017
And "what was once a nation has become simply an agglomeration of self-concerned individuals"?200 million egos, as he scathingly captions one chapter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whitman was even more narrowly self-concerned: he was in love with the smell of his armpits.
From Time Magazine Archive
The dissimilarity between Maitland and Butley is that Maitland is so introspectively self-concerned that he reveals his total being, while Butley is relentlessly analytical of other people and utterly blind to himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
