self-involved
Example Sentences
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To my chagrin, being young and self-involved, as well as working a grueling summer job, I remember that I was almost oblivious to the crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 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
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
“It’s so easy to be self-involved when you’re young.”
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
