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

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

Whitman was even more narrowly self-concerned: he was in love with the smell of his armpits.

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