self-absorption
Example Sentences
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A slate of songs by Charli XCX captures Catherine’s tragic self-absorption without seeming jarringly modern.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026
Jacobs, the prop master, is encouraged that the show’s carefully selected signifiers of wealth, status, self-absorption and poor taste are still being appreciated by fans.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 13, 2024
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
He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
