egotism

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McNeal’s ambivalence is boldly handled: Unbridled egotism is punctured with regret.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2024

Navalny was a social-media phenomenon, a charismatic speaker with some of the egotism of a natural-born leader.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2024

Wells writes that “it is part of the excessive egotism of the human animal that the bare idea of its extinction seems incredible to it.”

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

The hauteur of his wife, Guenevere, and the egotism of her lover, Lancelot, were exposed and then exploded in torrents of rapturous balladry that swept away their faults.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald