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

But Gelber's hero is concerned about being self-concerned, feels guilty about not feeling guilty, and this suffuses the play with moral pathos�even while it is being abrasively funny.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trouble was that he was too much the poet, too much the pointillistic stylist, too self-concerned with scenes, images and feelings sensed in a severely limited autobiographical world.

From Time Magazine Archive