self-absorbed

Example Sentences

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It includes many of the genre’s customary tropes, including intergenerational conflict, suspenseful showdowns, and self-absorbed, eccentric players for whom character may turn out to be destiny.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

"We will no longer be an isolated country, a country that is self-absorbed and acts solely out of political necessity."

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

By Alan, of course, he is referring to his much-loved and often quoted comedy creation, Alan Partridge - the tactless, self-absorbed and self-styled presenter.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2025

But I was so self-absorbed, I didn’t think about it in that way.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2025

Mantell was a lanky assemblage of shortcomings–he was vain, self-absorbed, priggish, neglectful of his family–but never was there a more devoted amateur paleontologist.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson