self-involvement
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Laclos' epistolary novel spins a web of decadent self-involvement and class warfare through the exchange of letters between the Marquise de Merteuil, a wealthy widow, and her former lover Vicomte de Valmont.
From Salon • Nov. 6, 2022
After attempting to be the have-it-all career mom, Couric questions whether the self-involvement required to succeed at “Today” kept her from noticing Monahan’s weight loss and jaundiced complexion, signs he was seriously ill.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021
This self-involvement is akin to the turning away from realism by novelists that Tom Wolfe, in a much-discussed 1989 essay in Harper’s, bemoaned as an abdication of both responsibility and power.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2021
Bergman also aimed to convey a sense of self-involvement.
From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2021
One of the older members reads the Abnegation manifesto, which is a short paragraph about forgetting the self and the dangers of self-involvement.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
