egoist

Example Sentences

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Having killed off the kernel of sweetness at the heart of the young man who’d written “Goodbye, Columbus,” he was free to explore the writer not just as egoist, but as stag-on-the-make, as bachelor-king.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2021

Unlike her two front-of-stage colleagues, McVie isn’t an apparent eccentric or egoist, but rather an understated craftsperson of plaintive easy listening and English soul.

From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2014

The egoist doesn’t care about the public interest.   

From Forbes • Sep. 22, 2014

While Mr. Thomas’s Timon thinks nothing of hurling his own excrement at one of his unwanted supplicants, beneath the repellent exterior can still be glimpsed the bruised egoist of the first acts.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011

Something of the egoist here, no doubt, but gracefully done nevertheless.

From Dumas' Paris by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)