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
Having spent the last seven years in a state of self-absorption — or, as his ex-girlfriend Lucy later puts it: “You’ve just been up there pouting?” — his new quest is simply to atone.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2025
But at the very centre of this film is Prince Andrew, played with fleshy self-absorption by Rufus Sewell.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2024
As a result, her plaintive wooing merely heightens the self-absorption of her egotistical love object, Narcissus.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 8, 2023
“Sparrow’s still in the garden, pouting about something,” said Ruby, her self-absorption apparently admitting no hint as to what that something might be.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
