egotism

If Trump’s first term is any indicator, the next four years will be an unmitigated mess of infighting, corruption, revolving door staff, facile demands and fragile egotism.

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

He is intensely competitive but without any of the suffocating self-seriousness or egotism of so many superstars.

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

The single-actor format and clever use of camerawork give visual expression to the novel’s themes of overweening egotism and existential dread.