self-involved
Example Sentences
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The British novelist Gwendoline Riley introduces her narrator, Laura, through a series of episodes that capture her uneasy foray into adulthood—caught between her working-class origins and her new place among London’s creatively ambitious, self-involved elite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
As the sudden underdog here — even as a person we’re to take as critically self-involved and going a little crazy — she reads as the protagonist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
They made him the sane man in an elaborate joke that co-starred James Marsden playing a self-involved yet somehow likable parody of himself.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2025
In one scene, the wildly self-involved protagonist fantasizes about her own funeral.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
“I'm an only child. Can't you tell by how adorably self-involved I am?”
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
