self-absorbed
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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
Even more than Dunham’s Hannah, Zosia Mamet’s Shoshanna and Jemima Kirke’s Jessa — all self-absorbed twentysomethings taking turns making bad decisions — Marnie was the definition of vanity.
From Salon • Jul. 1, 2025
Alice gestured with her tiny hands, and what Olanna had once thought to be an elegant fragility suddenly became a self-absorbed conceit, a luxurious selfishness; Alice spoke as if she alone suffered from the war.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
