self-involved
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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
She’s fighting patriarchal powers greater than herself, but she’s not to be underestimated, even if the production doesn’t quite clarify why everyone is in love with this stunning if rather irascible and self-involved young woman.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 2024
In other words, it’s a space only occupied, perhaps, by the delusional or self-involved.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
Much of his material is also self-involved, processing his spectator experience of Chris Rock being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars and Chappelle's own attack at The Hollywood Bowl.
From Salon • Jan. 13, 2024
“He was too busy being adorably self-involved to notice,” Hassan interjected.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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