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
This emerges in the fourth episode with the introduction of Downey Jr’s Auteur, an aggressively self-involved filmmaker.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024
In one scene, the wildly self-involved protagonist fantasizes about her own funeral.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2023
“I'm an only child. Can't you tell by how adorably self-involved I am?”
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
