self-absorption
Example Sentences
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By the end, it’s hard not to feel for him even as you laugh at his self-absorption.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
As a result, her plaintive wooing merely heightens the self-absorption of her egotistical love object, Narcissus.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 8, 2023
Identifying behaviors that make us recoil, like self-absorption and obliviousness, requires an ironic amount of self-reflection.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2023
His self-absorption is kind of the point, but it is a point stretched across 10 half-hours — more of a smear than a point.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023
But insulated by her money, a staff of paid attendants, and unwavering self-absorption, Pittman was heedless of the resentment and scorn she inspired in others; she remained as oblivious as Jane Austen’s Emma.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
