| 单词 | egotistic |
| 例句 | I could also say that he did this not through altruistic motives but selfish ones, in order to fulfill some egotistic impulse of his own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Set in a Chinatown loft, “Dimes Square” chronicles the petty backstabbing among a group of egotistic artists and media industry types. A Playwright Makes the Scene in New York’s Living Rooms 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z According to ArtWatch, custodians of art such as the Louvre are packed with mad egotistic restorers determined to repaint the works of the great masters in their own image. Swallow your sneering, ArtWatch 2010-06-17T14:36:00Z Joyce’s heavy drinking, chronic vision problems and egotistic ways strain his relationship with Nora, but she proves a tenacious soul; her theme song in the musical is the anthem “Stand Fast.” | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Himself and Nora,’ at Hamilton Stage 2013-05-03T23:55:01Z He also said at the time he wanted to quit his long acting career, including his co-starring role as an egotistic TV executive on the popular "30 Rock." 2010-02-11T16:39:00Z Mr. Buterbaugh, 50, has a way of making grand pronouncements without sounding egotistic. Scene Stealers: Meet the Behind-the-Scene Oscar Stars 2014-02-21T22:45:13Z I mean, it feels egotistic to look at something about yourself. Barbra Streisand Can Hear Herself Again 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Young children are egotistic, and there is nothing wrong with that. Perspective | The simple but critical purpose of family meetings: To listen 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z These days he comes off as a bipartisan satire of egotistic leaders who never seem to have known doubt. Critic’s Notebook: Judah Friedlander’s Stand-up Comedy 2012-09-05T22:20:35Z Mr. Clooney’s character, Lee Gates, is the kind of charming, egotistic broadcast peacock who requires a tough, honest, outwardly-cynical-but-secretly-idealistic, behind-the-scenes superego. Review: In ‘Money Monster,’ a Broke Investor Holds a Grudge and a Gun 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z “My Father, the Genius,” Ms. Small’s 2002 documentary profile of her father, Glen Small, an eccentric, egotistic architect, is also noted. Review: With ‘One Cut, One Life,’ Ed Pincus and Lucia Small Document His Illness 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z As the trio rehearses for Cuevas’s upcoming movie, each of their unscrupulous and egotistic motivations rises to the surface. Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Their ‘Official Competition’ 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title,” a piece both egotistic and hysterically self-deprecating. World Fringe Congress in Edinburgh 2012-08-26T21:38:54Z He wrote, “The opinion is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” adding: “Of course the opinion’s showy profundities are often profoundly incoherent.” Civilities: Roberts and Scalia are sore losers. Just ask Nixon, Trump or Gen. Robert E. Lee. 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Besides, the blameless but disagreeable client he must try to save from the gallows is an egotistic author who has more than his share of snobbery. Solving Crimes the Old-Fashioned Way 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z But before we’re allowed to ascend to that pinnacle of empathetic, egotistic artistry, we need to figure how we got here. Review: ‘Western Society,’ It’s a Selfie World After All 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z It's primarily a showcase for comedian Mike O'Connell, who plays K. Roth Binew, the kind of insufferably egotistic idiot who speaks with flowery erudition but really has very little to say. 'The Living Wake': high-minded, with lowbrow pleasures 2010-06-03T22:32:00Z She’s soon in charge of the nursing staff, having the usual sorts of battles with the egotistic Army doctors. Review: ‘Mercy Street,’ a Civil War Hospital Drama on PBS 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “When I first saw Fariaz, I thought he was really cute, but he was a comedian, and I thought comedians were egotistic, so I clicked off his profile,” she said. A ‘Dreamer’ Finds His Sense of Belonging 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z “Timeless Icon,” the label reads, which seems a little egotistic for an understated wine. Rioja Gran Reserva, a Wine Beginning to Be Shaped by Time 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z As Dean, who eventually becomes a successful songwriter in his own right, Mr. Cochran gives a moving, understated performance, and his tense rapport with Ms. Baldwin’s loving but breezily egotistic Tammy is nicely etched. Review: ‘Songbird,’ a Honky-Tonk Take on Chekhov 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The question used to bother Jimothy when he was younger and “mad egotistic,” he said. Jimothy’s Flex Looks a Little Different 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z In “The Exhibitionist,” a family lives in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter. Your Wednesday Briefing 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Shinkai, who writes and directs his films, has become convinced that young people shouldn’t be pandered to with stories where the natural world is heroically returned to balance, calling such approaches “egotistic and irresponsible.” The anime hit ‘Suzume’ and Shinkai’s cinema of cataclysm 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z “It was a big mistake not to see the European dimension, bringing back the image of Germany as a big egotistic power trampling on its partners,” he said. On Ukraine and on Energy, Germany Is Upsetting Its Allies in Europe 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But, perhaps less optimistically, he noted, “once this health crisis passes, our worst response would be to plunge even more deeply into feverish consumerism and new forms of egotistic self-preservation.” Pope Criticizes Lack of Unity in World’s Response to Coronavirus 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z What we dealt with, and continue to deal with, is merely a collective educational experience that has shown us how all our planetary games can lose meaning and can seem both egotistic and futile. Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z The problem — the primary human problem — is that people are susceptible, prideful, bullheaded, egotistic, dumbstruck and lazy. What I Learned in Avalanche School 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z But others viewed him as an egotistic faux-cowboy who picked on the weak and gave voice to ugly stereotypes. Don Imus, talk-show host who turned bad behavior into big ratings, dies at 79 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z “I don’t know, that word, ‘proud’, is just too egotistic,” he says. City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 'The US isn't ready for a revolution' 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z It is the product of an immature, egotistic mind. Trump’s emergency: the arbitrary action of an instinctive autocrat | Simon Tisdall 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z “Personally, I am disappointed by what I see as dishonest and egotistic behavior from Julian Assange and WikiLeaks,” Ms. Best said. Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Such a pattern of egotistic and destructive behavior by the British elite flabbergasts many people today. Opinion | The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Trump’s naive and egotistic blundering threatens more made-in-America disasters from east Asia to the Middle East and Europe. Trump is dangerous again as his Kim Jong-un ‘breakthrough’ turns sour | Simon Tisdall 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Justice Antonin Scalia, a fellow Reagan nominee, led the way in criticism, calling Kennedy’s lofty language “as pretentious as its content is egotistic.” Justice Kennedy, the pivotal swing vote on the Supreme Court, announces his retirement 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z It is, to many Democrats, evidence that he was biased against Mrs. Clinton, or driven by an egotistic need to be in the spotlight. James Comey’s Interview on ABC’s ‘20/20’: Annotated Excerpts 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z An independent review of the AOC also revealed that some staff viewed the organization as “dysfunctional” and had witnessed “‘deceitful’, ‘two-faced’, ‘egotistic’ and/or ‘belligerent’” behavior from senior staff. Australian Olympics media head cleared of bullying allegations 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Staff described the organization as "dysfunctional" and had witnessed "'deceitful', 'two-faced', 'egotistic' and/or 'belligerent'" behavior from senior staff. AOC will not change with Coates in charge: De Jong 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The case triggered a series of accusations of bullying at the organization and the report released on Thursday said staff spoke of witnessing "'deceitful', 'two-faced', 'egotistic' and/or 'belligerent'" behavior from senior figures. AOC urged to modernize after bullying allegations 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z “Why do these accidents happen again and again? The American Navy’s arrogant, rude, unreasonable and egotistic attitude is the seed,” said People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. Naval Collision Adds to Fears About U.S. Decline in Asia 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The length invites egotistic chance-taking, yet the greens punish it, the hardest and fastest the players have seen all season. Perspective | Kevin Kisner makes the most of his home-course advantage at PGA Championship 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z An independent review of the AOC also revealed that some staff viewed the organization as “dysfunctional” and had witnessed “‘deceitful’, ‘two-faced’, ‘egotistic’ and/or ‘belligerent’” behavior from senior staff. Australian Olympics media head cleared of bullying allegations 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z Staff described the organization as "dysfunctional" and had witnessed "'deceitful', 'two-faced', 'egotistic' and/or 'belligerent'" behavior from senior staff. AOC will not change with Coates in charge: De Jong 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z The case triggered a series of accusations of bullying at the organization and the report released on Thursday said staff spoke of witnessing "'deceitful', 'two-faced', 'egotistic' and/or 'belligerent'" behavior from senior figures. AOC urged to modernize after bullying allegations 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z "He is the most disruptive and egotistic leader at the summit," the veiled 38-year-old social worker said. Leftist protesters vow to disrupt G20 summit in Hamburg 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z This is not a competition between the team’s two breakout stars, and neither appears egotistic enough to worry about such comparisons. All Should Rise for Yankees’ Gary Sanchez, Too 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z His legacy and legend are seen as the antidote to our times, a challenge to blustery, egotistic politics. Calling Edward R. Murrow 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Butler took some ribbing over the post, which he wrote when he was a student at Western Arkansas, but he said it was more aspirational than egotistic. Julio Jones, Star Falcons Receiver, Shakes Off Cornerbacks and Celebrity 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Trump and his hateful egotistic kleptocracy are set to make China great, and other world powers as well. Make China Great Again 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z He’s festooned with tattoos, and the tats have a habit of coming alive and serving as his conscience to rein in his egotistic excesses. ‘Moana’: Disney’s delightful tropical adventure sets sail 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “Some say he’s a little egotistic, but he’s not,” Chang said of Heath. No One Is Looking at This Headline 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Edward R. Murrow’s legacy and legend are seen as the antidote to our times, a challenge to blustery, egotistic politics. Calling Edward R. Murrow 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Ask Christopher Ma to characterize a certain type of high-rolling investor, and you might think he's talking about this year's crop of presidential hopefuls: "They are self-centered, egotistic, cocky and borderline narcissistic." 6 Famous Flameouts of Famed Investors 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Trump and his hateful egotistic kleptocracy are set to make China great, and other world powers as well. Make China Great Again 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z She said her comments — in which she called Mr. Trump an egotistic “faker” lacking in intellectual rigor — were “ill-advised” and regrettable, and promised to “be more circumspect” in the future. Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson: Your Thursday Evening Briefing 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Playing his now-retired Comedy Central character, an egotistic conservative talk show host, Mr. Colbert mockingly defended the Iraq war and the Washington press corps’ coverage of it. Following Larry Wilmore Before His Big Night 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z We all see the world from our own egotistic point of view, of course. The Psychopath, the Altruist and the Rest of Us 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He went on to lampoon the majority's opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, as pretentious, egotistic and, at times, "profoundly incoherent." Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was known for evocative language, fiercely held opinions and a sardonic wit that invoked fairy tales, foreigners and hippies 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z He said the opinion was “couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic.” U.S. Justice Scalia: outspoken conservative stalwart 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Dissenting from the decision establishing a right to same-sex marriage, Justice Scalia called Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s majority opinion pretentious, egotistic and incoherent. Supreme Court Prepares to Take On Politically Charged Cases 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z He had been the personal pilot for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the supremely egotistic Army war hero fired by President Harry S. Truman during the Korean War. A Watch With Lifetime Access to Ebbets Field Has Mysterious Origins 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z But Disney was both financially reckless and egotistic. Walt Disney, a Visionary Who Was Crazy Like a Mouse 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z Some experts say the obnoxious behavior reflects a modern, egotistic view of travel. In Tourist Destinations, a Picture of Excess 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Scalia said Kennedy’s ruling was written “in a style as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” was “lacking even a thin veneer of law” and expressed “the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.” Resisting the gay marriage ruling would be a losing battle for the GOP 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z Scalia was a sharp critic of Kennedy’s style, saying it was “as pretentious as its content is egotistic.” Supreme Court rules gay couples nationwide have a right to marry 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Scalia writes that Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion is written “in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” overflowing with “mummeries,” “silly extravagances,” and “straining-to-be-memorable passages.” Five unexpected arguments in Scalia's same-sex marriage dissent 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The opinion, he says, “is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic,” and somehow undoes the work of the American Revolution. The Supreme Court Reaffirms Marriage Vows 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z “The opinion,” Scalia wrote elsewhere of the majority’s reasoning, “is couched in a style that is as pretentious as its content is egotistic.” Scalia to Colleagues: You're No Smarter Than a 'Fortune Cookie' 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z It's only slightly egotistic if you own it, thanks to the excellent analog design. FlapIt is the retro social media counter you've always wanted 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z "Listen, I'm not one of those who wake up every morning thinking 'Oh, I wonder if I'll get the MVP?' I'm not that egotistic about it," he insists. Robbie Keane is more than an MVP candidate to Galaxy 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z They do little to dispel the traditional - and in my view unfair - reputation of surgeons as egotistic. Surgeon's mark raises ethics issues 2013-12-27T10:55:49Z During his life, the husband and father of four was described by supporters as funny, happy and jovial even in the face of cancer, while detractors called him an egotistic bully. Former Seahawk, Pastor Ken Hutcherson, 61, dies 2013-12-19T05:35:05Z In one theory, they are compensating for low self-esteem by becoming egotistic. A Dose of Narcissism Can Be Useful 2013-02-05T13:15:00.227Z Was his retirement announcement Jan. 2 intended to galvanize a team that reveres him or an egotistic display in the most definitive of team sports? On Pro Football: Ray Lewis’s Legacy of Greatness and Contradictions 2013-02-04T02:39:55Z “Solely due to the governor’s misguided, egotistic notion that this will advance his presidential aspirations.” Tougher Gun Law in New York 2013-01-15T19:14:27Z It sounds so egotistic, but it’s what it is. The Hard Life of an N.F.L. Long Shot 2012-11-21T21:55:22Z There was nothing petty or egotistic to mar the picture. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z It would seem like a competitive sorrow, a vulgar bit of egotistic assumption to suit the occasion. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Altogether, among this sudden glut in the market of literary confidences in the shape of ducal, journalistic, artistic, and egotistic recollections, this may be taken up as a chatty and readable book. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 2012-04-14T02:00:21.840Z At the risk of seeming egotistic, I will explain, as I have already explained elsewhere, the device by which I make my one cycling gown long and short, as occasion requires. Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport 2012-03-03T03:00:17.540Z It follows from all this, evidently, that a great idealist never can be egotistic. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z The barbarian is egotistic enough to suppose that an Infinite Being is constantly doing something, or failing to do something, on his account. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z They destroyed the hateful, the egotistic and provincial—they established a Nation, a national spirit, a national pride and a patriotism as broad as the great Republic. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Political 2012-02-11T03:03:48.503Z He lived in Pinkneyville, and occasionally drank a little too freely of Illinois wine; and when in his cups he sometimes grew philosophic and egotistic. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z But Mr. Bettison was far too egotistic to believe such a thing, and he brushed the incredible suspicion away, deciding that her coldness was due to a very proper shyness. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z A host of supporting characters include veteran Naseeruddin Shah relishing the role of an egotistic matinee idol. Bollywood’s ‘Dirty Picture’ Evokes Seductress Mae West: Review 2011-12-08T01:24:36Z As a rule, an individual is egotistic in the proportion that he lacks intelligence. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Do not, kind reader, attribute egotistic motives for this statement. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z You know there is no one else in the world so egotistic as the man who knows nothing. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z No such egotistic and unscrupulous absolutism, as what now prevails here, has been seen in the Christian world since the days of the first Napoleon. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z We can now pose as experts on Earthquakes—pardon the egotistic form of talking about the latter, but it makes it more real. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Byron was by no means ill-disposed, especially just now, but he was egotistic and indolent, and too capricious,—as the event proved,—to be depended on. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z Of course my object in the too egotistic narrative just made is to inform you that I have bestowed very great labor and study upon the subject, hoping thus to draw your attention. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z He was neither solemn nor dignified, because he was neither stupid nor egotistic. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z She often says she is not "absorbed in self," but the fact is, I have seldom seen anyone more unconsciously, thoroughly, and often weakly egotistic. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z For though it was evident that she had rebelled against life, it was equally evident that she was not of the egotistic temperament of those who rebel or cavil, or are discontented. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z It is said that a cold, egotistic twitching might be observed around the corners of his mouth. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z He is forever boring his friends with these egotistic lamentations. The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Such servants of God can offer prayer which avail much more than the frightened call of the worldly minded, egotistic, and selfish enemy of good people and good principles. Subconscious Religion 2011-08-22T02:00:58.937Z Taken in this scope, it is truly egotistic of someone to claim his ideas as unique at all. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z In consequence of remarks I published upon this unfeeling and egotistic outrage, the Duchess sent me a letter of thanks, and requested me to call at her residence. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:20.507Z Amongst these is one which could not be too often reproduced before the eyes of an indifferent, egotistic, and cynical generation. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z And we are to judge the world by this narrow egotistic scale of morals? Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z He was evidently gratified by the intense interest with which Estelle listened to his amusing and justifiably egotistic rattle, and in the innocence of his heart essayed to complete her subjugation. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z And then you are expected to act the sympathetic listener to all their infernal egotistic fads; and God help you if at any moment you forget the sympathetic part of it. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z This natural conclusion, to an egotistic mind, appeared satisfactory. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z We must give up this egotistic assumption that our little world is the only living world in this vast universe, or that it is only one of a few living worlds. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z All is said that need be said in hostile criticism of Victor Hugo’s writings, when it is said that he is always to the last degree egotistic and to the last degree theatric. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z The same is the case in the development of man; in the infant, a being entirely wrapped in its instincts of self-preservation, the “primary ego” is predominant and the child is an egotistic parasite. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z They can therefore bring it about that a person subject to their influence decides in favor of good conduct in the civilized sense without any ennobling of impulse or change from egotistic into altruistic inclinations. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z Just now I can't remember whether it was at the special invitation of H. 3rd or my own egotistic urge. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z It shows how desperate, at heart, is the folly of an egotistic or anthropocentric philosophy. Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe 2011-03-20T02:00:33.357Z As a mother she may have her disagreeable side; she is too original,--too egotistic. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z They are apt to be self-conscious, egotistic, and morbidly conscious. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Thus, for instance, it is worthy of note that all our dreams are governed by purely egotistic motives. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z Not by egotistic speeches, forcing himself, as some men do, upon the attention of Congress and the country, but by delivering, at judicious times, speeches which were full of solid ability. Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 2011-02-27T03:00:34.390Z Though hope seeks its own reward, it is not therefore mercenary or egotistic. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z You must understand, Miss Crane," pursued the widow, egotistic and tactless as ever, "that I must be mistress in my own house. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z They are without other than egotistic care for questions of social life or sensibility to either the respect or the scorn of others, without control of conscience and without sense or remorse for evil. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z The noble Americans are just as egotistic in their dreams as the Austrians. Reflections on War and Death 2011-04-17T02:00:03.777Z A certain egotism, for example, is notoriously associated with men of genius; and a kind of egotistic or unconscious selfishness was Bret Harte’s great defect. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z We tend to be egotistic creatures, he explains; when someone smiles, we tend to think they are smiling at us, but when someone looks angry, we think they are mad at someone else. The science behind a beautiful face 2010-12-16T06:01:05Z He admitted that the conquests of Rome, egotistic ambition, and the long anarchy of the Civil Wars had made the rule of one inevitable. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius You will not be bored, or think me egotistic. Where the Path Breaks Nor will men be egotistic as they are now. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man "I want to be frankly egotistic," he said. The Man Who Rose Again Mean, egotistic, narrow-minded, and suspicious, without decision or energy, Duke Friedrich was his perfect opposite. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. I say true pity; for your pity is egotistic and weak. The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise The very cares and worries, the checks and clashings, consequent on meeting other individualities tend to keep down the egotistic elements in a man’s nature. The Vagabond in Literature To him it is a mere egotistic formula. A Top-Floor Idyl The volcanic fires of her strong, passionate, sensuous temperament had lain dormant beneath an egotistic and inconsiderate vanity, had lain dormant, unknown even to herself. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance The master was apt to be egotistic—dogmatic—much given to repetition—very diffuse. The Religious Life of London Marriage ought to double powers—make people unselfish; while, as a rule, it only enlarges the sphere of egotistic concentration and absorption. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Finally, despite the tenderness and kindliness he can show, the egotistic elements absorb too much of his nature. The Vagabond in Literature And yet, so hopelessly vacillating is my nature that I had read but half a chapter before I was figuratively patting myself on the back, in egotistic approval of my own work. A Top-Floor Idyl They obviously have atomic bombs, and the lush intoxication of power won't be a cinch to give up, not for anything that sounds as egotistic as the globes.... The Buttoned Sky He was delighted, moreover, that nature contained much that was egotistic and was of no use to mankind. Waldfried A Novel Everything that seemed formal and egotistic reminded her of Mr. Augustus Sheppard. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Beauty is pure, complete, egotistic: it has no other value than its being beautiful. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions And now, if I be forgiven for venting this egotistic digression and harangue, I promise to make my mouth a mare clausum in future, for all personal grievances. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Is he so egotistic that he dares to guy me? An Artist in Crime The latter appreciated this, for he was egotistic to the roots, but it did not develop a sense of loyalty in him. The "Genius" This might be set down to an egotistic delusion. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Her egotistic soul, enamored of luxury, her little soul, that worshiped loot and gain, was now thinking of nothing but the beauty of the jewels. Their Son; The Necklace An egotistic philosopher given to analysis of the soul, voluptuously immersed in his introspection like a big cat curled up in a ball, he was not moved at all by the agitation of the others. Pierre and Luce You may think me egotistic, but I hoped to detect him by his conduct. An Artist in Crime He was not at all offensively egotistic—simply surer, calmer, more genial, less easily ruffled; but even this was too much. The "Genius" Mapleson had warned him about Baronet, but in his puny egotistic narrowness he thought himself the equal of the best. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Leigh Hunt so easily falls into the egotistic and ridiculous, that it is a matter of wonder how he has escaped from them to so great a degree in the present volumes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 Thus by this versatile Lorenzo dei Medici, this flippant, egotistic artist and despot, has at last been broken the long spell of the Middle Ages. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I Mr. Dredge introduced his friend to Mr. Slack, who gave him one of his egotistic shakes of the hand, and said, “How are you this morning?” Talkers With Illustrations Finding the satisfaction of their own aspirations in the present state of misery, they end by becoming, often without wishing it, profoundly egotistic and bad.... Violence and the Labor Movement You went to hear him, expecting to find some justification for the stories which impute to him a low and egotistic presence, and a delivery that depends upon broadness for its effects. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 Her courage naturally was an egotistic courage: it amounted in sum to this—nobody should take away her toy from her this time. Clark's Field Thus he set up within himself two centers of consciousness, of moral growth, one altruistic and the other egotistic. The Fate of Felix Brand Dredge was quiet and unassuming, and often allowed Slack to go on with his egotistic gibberish unchecked, which rather encouraged him in his personal weakness. Talkers With Illustrations Individuality as a pedagogical principle is indeed egotistic in so far as it endeavors to achieve its own peculiarity, but it is at the same time noble. Pedagogics as a System De Quincey was at once egotistic and impersonal, at once delighted to talk and resolutely shunning society. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 When alone with his brother, Charles dropped his egotistic brag and dramatic bluster, and touched craftily upon the dare-devil, boyish life they had led together. Money Magic A Novel An honest, or an egotistic penitent drove his nail in where it stands out prominently; while the secretive devotee placed his among a mass of others of long standing and inconspicuous location. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures Yes, and in parading his egotistic piety in this way, he is in danger of becoming a lion comique. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Of course this sounds to you the direst egotism; but when one has labelled a thing egotistic, one has not necessarily condemned it, because the essence of the world is its egotism. Beside Still Waters He flushed with torturing shame at the recollection of his rage, his selfish, demoniacal, egotistic fury over the omission of his pet lines. The Light of the Star A Novel Not only your verbiage but your sentiment is thus egotistic throughout! Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors It is the domestic tyrant, the egotistic mediocre, and the superstitious Church that are afraid for women to think, that fear to lose her as worshipper and serf. Men, Women, and Gods And Other Lectures The egotistic emotions, weaknesses, and vanities of these few select minds are continually assailed by the temptations unceasingly murmured into their ears by the spirit of the age: 'Come with me! On the Future of our Educational Institutions Nevertheless, this “practical occultism,” abnormal and egotistic though it be, may develop marvellous powers, at which we may wonder as we do at the skill of an acrobat or the pugilism of Sullivan. Buchanan's Journal of Man, January 1888 Volume 1, Number 12 He spoke, in the egotistic strain usual with him, of the righteousness of his own course, and then began to inveigh in the most violent terms against those who opposed him. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 In that period of two years, the least honourable of her political life, the Princess had solely as a stimulant her egotistic and impatient ambition. Political Women, Vol. 2 They are too clever, too artistic, too egotistic. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations I'm not going to be robbed of the egotistic pleasure of being hospitable. Free Air With her it is always less ideal, more personal, more egotistic than with Terry. An Anarchist Woman Now, in certain sensitively egotistic minds this conception of reality is sure to put on a narrow, close, sick-room air. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy No one quite so egotistic as your hopeless lover. The High Calling But of course you are impatiently waiting for me to turn to Margarita and leave this silly chatter about my egotistic self. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Comfortably egotistic old ladies have an instinctive dislike to painful topics. The Light of Scarthey No one, indeed," says he, "will wish to deny that in our modern culture there is much that is false, egotistic, and selfish; much that is misleading and exaggerated, and consequently opposed to true culture. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings He had that nervous, egotistic, self-centered nature common to stage children who seem to have been dazzled by the footlights and maddened by the applause before they are born. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Una pictured the socialists as always attacking capitalists; the pessimists as always being bitter and egotistic; Bohemians as always being dissipated, but as handsome and noisy and gay. The Job An American Novel They knew what ailed the Honourable Jason Mallard—that he was a victim of a strangulated ambition, of an egotistic hernia. The Thunders of Silence Impulsive and egotistic, they may seem willing to exchange Liberty for Tranquillity or Security, but this will be a momentary caprice, soon past and forgotten. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. And would such escape from complicity be any help to the slave, any service to humanity, anything more than an egotistic separation from political society, a mere refined selfishness? The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement I am egotistic enough to believe that the phraseology of the original resolution, as introduced by me, was better than that employed in the pending amendment. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States Her rigid principles, her petty, egotistic pride, her faultless demeanour jarred on the audience. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy You considered Mr. Clarke a most important instrument for spreading the light, but I am egotistic enough to say that my conversion would mean more to your cause than fifty Clarkes. The Tyranny of the Dark It was true that Savonarola’s glance at Romola had some of that hardness which is caused by an egotistic prepossession. Romola He was egotistic to excess, attending wholly to himself and his own comforts, and it was because the noise of children interfered with his comfort, that he disliked them so much. Valerie For the egotistic garrulity of the author there is, in fact, no more fit occasion than in the final pages of his book. Tales of Fantasy and Fact I am not permitted to name my authority for the anecdote; various egotistic "delicacies," even in this case, preventing useful truth from being clearly assured to the public. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 He was as egotistic as Rousseau or Byron; but he had none of Byron's manly public spirit, and none of Rousseau's exalted love of humanity. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II We do not deny that there are plenty of egotistic instincts in isolated individuals. The Conquest of Bread Brigadier Townsend, however capable, was irritable and egotistic. Canada Though incomplete, these pages will perhaps help to show that such a mutual comprehension is not impossible and that, if egotistic prejudices are overcome, apparent dissimilarities will be resolved into a profound identity. Chinese Painters A Critical Study It is not egotistic to state this fact, and it would not be manly to shrink from the criticism and scrutiny which such a choice necessarily invites and provokes. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. Most, if not all, of our apparently altruistic actions and feelings have an egotistic substratum; and the quality of the love depends upon the lover. Woman Her Sex and Love Life Milton is one of the most egotistic of poets. Milton It is the egotism of Capital, educated and encouraged into egotism by the false doctrines of what is called Liberalism in this country, and provoked into egotism by the equally egotistic discontent of Labour. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 Perhaps it sounds a little egotistic to say "my grocer," &c., but is not this the way that heads of families talk, and am I not head and family too? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 As the infant prodigy among races, there is much that we could inherit from these people if we could prove ourselves more worthy and less egotistic. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets When he did so eventually the amount he ate was enough commendation of its quality to satisfy the most egotistic baker. The Wonder Island Boys: The Tribesmen Prefaces can scarcely be otherwise than egotistic, and one would not willingly add to the too numerous illustrations of this tendency with which the literature of the day abounds. The Bon Gaultier Ballads The King was just an egotistic little man who liked notoriety and admiration. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble It was not particularly egotistic for him to think that. The Winning Clue My heart smote me for that egotistic contemplation of myself and my prospects which had led me to neglect her. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Johnson was vain, loquacious, and offensively egotistic: Jackson, on the other hand, was proud, reserved, and with such abounding self-respect as excluded egotism. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 It is true that reason, working in the service of the egotistic impulses and sentiments, often circumvents the ends of this instinct and sets up habits which are incompatible with it. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles He killed for the love of killing, or rather for the egotistic satisfaction of being talked of as a killer. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble The desires which spring out of direct interest are elevating, while the desires which are associated with indirect interest are in many cases egotistic and selfish. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart So after the first egotistic weeks of young love, the social instinct—Milly's dominant passion, in which her husband shared to some extent—awoke with a renewed keenness, and she looked abroad for its gratification. One Woman's Life The hidden realities in all these passionately egotistic selves came to her as she sat watching, in attractive or repellent flashes of light. The Guests Of Hercules I'm taking the egotistic view that it doesn't concern me, that I'm perfectly justified in enjoying myself in my own way, seeing that I'm in a position to do so. North of Fifty-Three But commercial avarice is essentially egotistic, grasping, faithless, overreaching, crafty, cold, ungenerous, selfish, and calculating, controlled by considerations of self-interest alone. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry He was intensely egotistic, and totally indifferent to all religious belief. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology His manner was illustrative, egotistic, and keenly watchful of effects. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems His egotistic and restless mental activity; his exaggerated, perturbed, and gnawing self-consciousness; his despairing view of men; his alienation from the spirit of his age, made him most lonely and unhappy. The Friendships of Women Men look upon art as if it were to be pursued merely for the sake of art, for the egotistic pleasure of the artist, and not as a moral power full of responsibility and dignity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy What ordinary tongue shall dare to vociferate egotistic dogmatisms where an inspired apostle whispers, with reverential reserve, "We see through a glass darkly"? The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Logicians say, that the way to convince others is to retrace, in order, the steps by which you yourself became convinced, which is to be egotistic. Theory of Circulation by Respiration Synopsis of its Principles and History It is time to bring this egotistic narrative to an end. Adrift on an Ice-Pan Poor women have only too frequently to deal with these complicated situations, with which blundering, egotistic male minds are seldom in perfect sympathy. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron There was, too, a dogmatic, egotistic manner, which led him always to enunciate his own thoughts as if they were absolutely true and incontrovertible. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men We find here a violent reaction against the poetry of egotistic optimism which had ruled the romantic school in England for more than a hundred years, and we recognise a branch of Mr. Hardy's originality. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Though egotistic, he was a clever man, and evidently a pleasant man to work with; he was a useful Minister under a wise chief, though he later proved a harmful one under a foolish chief. Abraham Lincoln Of Roman affairs they knew little and thought less, in their charmingly egotistic absorption in student life. Roads from Rome It was not that I should have been the happier because another lad was miserable, but that an awakened sympathy with his harder fate would tend to dwarf egotistic absorption in my own. We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys From the Carmina Burana we cull one chant indeed on Saladin, one spirited lament for Richard Coeur de Lion; but their general tone is egotistic. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse One of the commonest sources of mental and moral confusion is to mistake the egotistic shrinking from the sight of suffering with the altruistic shrinking from causing it and desire to relieve it. The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine His wish strikes a chill at first; it sounds egotistic; it has the peculiar, instinctive, inevitable cruelty of the artist, seeing in human nature material for his art. Ancient Art and Ritual As one gets older one is more difficult to please: but the sting of pleasure is even keener than in youth and far more egotistic. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 Generous impulses alternated in her with malicious moods where these absurd, solemn, egotistic, pretty children of Neville's were concerned. Dangerous Ages Applying these distinctions to evil and God, we shall find that evil is egotistic,—boastful, but fleeing like a shadow at daybreak; while God is egoistic, knowing only His own all-presence, all-knowledge, all-power. Unity of Good Instead of bringing into play those egotistic feelings whose predominance is the cause of criminal acts, there are brought into play those altruistic feelings which check criminal acts. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library For, so far as he withdraws himself from his fellows into a physical or mental isolation, so far he approaches egotistic madness. Paradoxes of Catholicism It loves, but its affections are selfish and egotistic. The Ascent of the Soul The West displays disinterest in the hardship and actual physical pain inflicted on millions of our fellow human beings, and a neglect of the long run effects of this egotistic behaviour. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy She had always had a way of making him talk about Tyson, while he seemed to himself to be most engagingly egotistic. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) In antagonism, separation and competition lie arid, poor, mean lives, egotistic and conceited, vapid and fickle. Woman in Modern Society And yet, to talk too much about books is not well; it often marks the pedantic and egotistic character. Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls The worst thing that can be said about Italy356 of the sixteenth century is that such an analyst as Machiavelli should have been able to idealize an adventurer whose egotistic immorality was so undisguised. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots I believe country-people are even more egotistic than the dwellers in cities. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 For he had already been driven by egotistic governments from several of his commanding positions, and people were gibingly asking whether the new political gospel was being preached only as a foil for backslidings. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference In separation, competition and antagonism lie arid, poor, mean lives, conceited and egotistic, vapid and contemptible. Woman in Modern Society That is to say," he resumed calmly, "our rude Westerners are egotistic and ignorant. 54-40 or Fight The issue was no vulgar one; no merely egotistic interests were at stake. Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots Fundamental in the personality of the hysterics is this instability, this emotionality, which is however secondary to an egotistic, easily wounded nature, craving sympathy and respect and often unable legitimately to earn them. The Nervous Housewife The one man was more and more his careless, rather egotistic self; the other was of a sudden the rare self of an hour of peril—in a word, dangerous. Westways And the shaggy man of egotistic and pedantic speech, but of womanly sensibilities, was weeping. The End of the World A Love Story This is, indeed, one of the great difficulties in his way, and often causes him to waver between extremes of melancholia and egotistic exaltation. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Had you been less egotistic, they might have been happier, even during your lifetime. The Plain Man and His Wife I am not vain or egotistic; I do not pine for applause and wealth, but I should like to sing.... Evelyn Innes Making no answer to his query, content solely to condemn it with her eyes as egotistic and vain, she said— "I'm going to make you some food." The Price of Love He had let things rip and shown no egotistic concern in the business of others. Mr. Prohack Our temptation is to be egotistic and self-centred; to want to approach God alone with our private needs and wishes. Our Lady Saint Mary Thus the reminiscences are, in a sense, extraordinarily egotistic. Old and New Masters Though corrupt and egotistic, that aristocracy was, in some instances, singularly impartial. The Man Who Laughs Elfigo, his thumbs hooked in the armholes of his vest, mark of the dominant note in the human male since clothes were invented to furnish armholes for egotistic thumbs, contemplated his polished tan shoes dissatisfiedly. Starr, of the Desert I will make no apology, dear Madam, for this egotistic detail: I know you and your sister will be interested in every circumstance of it. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) I think of our return, of the day when he told me of the necessity for his voyage to Antigua, and of my own egotistic unwillingness to accompany him. Nancy He was egotistic--just a little--but harmlessly so, and his senses were sound and his will was good; I had, too, abundant evidence of his liking for me. Who Goes There? Were there not a solid foundation of observation, learning, genius, and conscience to his work, his egotistic eccentricities would awake a tempest of hisses. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 The one work that lives is the "Journal," a quaintly egotistic record of unquestioning faith and unconquerable endurance in pursuit of a spiritual ideal through a rude age. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters The substance of the letter, it is true, is purely egotistic; it might be summed up in the words, "Oh, how I wish you were here to make me happy." Primitive Love and Love-Stories If the people in England could only realise the quarrelsome, deceitful, underhanded, egotistic any tyrannical character of the Germans, there would not be so much balderdash about a friendly understanding, etc., between England and Germany. Peace Theories and the Balkan War Bitter and impious they were—as those of egotistic men naturally are in suffering. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Had he been of an egotistic mould Barton might have added, that his Ghost was considered hardly less effective than the Hamlet of the mighty Betterton. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Absolute beauty, in the nature of things, must be essentially egotistic, and subject everything to its rule. Without Dogma She has, however, plenty of egotistic reasons for dreading his death, for she knows that her fate will be slavery. Primitive Love and Love-Stories It is an opinionated book, controversial, egotistic, and unnecessarily critical. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy In England, twenty years ago, we were long since weary of his egotistic buffooneries. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays The House, where party strife for a brief space was hushed by mutual consent, is now devastated by the energies of indiscreet, importunate, egotistic or frankly disloyal question-mongers. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War His prospects looked so rosy that they led him into egotistic outlines of what he intended to accomplish. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest Parents enjoy the pleasures of their children as they never did their own egotistic delights. Primitive Love and Love-Stories He himself was a stout unbeliever in individual immortality, teaching his children that the craving for it was one of the egotistic impulses of the unregenerate human heart. The Bent Twig But perhaps you think that in beholding for the mere joy of beholding, and contemplating for the sake of contemplation, there is something that is egotistic. Intentions Amory talked; he went thoroughly into the destruction of his egotistic highways, and in a half-hour the listless quality had left his voice. This Side of Paradise It was impossible to imagine one throb or twitter of compunction beneath those frankly egotistic and infectious transports. The Amateur Cracksman If this be true, it is absurd for science to say that the egotistic elements of experience should be suppressed. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature The Hamlet in Stevenson—the self-questioning, egotistic, moralising Hamlet—was, and to the end remained, a something alien to bold, dramatic, creative freedom. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial If she was egotistic about her tiny learning, they were at least as much so regarding theirs. Main Street "There never were men placed in such egotistic positions since—oh, since the French Revolution." This Side of Paradise And it must be said for this egotistic self-approval of his that like all his judgments there was sound merit of truth in it. The Grain of Dust The axis of reality runs solely through the egotistic places—they are strung upon it like so many beads. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature He thought he should have waited for his anger to cool, when he might have been more impersonal and less egotistic. Lay Morals I ought not speak that way, it sounds egotistic, but I am old enough now to be excused for that. Acres of Diamonds: our every-day opportunities After Amory returned to college he received several letters from Monsignor which gave him more egotistic food for consumption. This Side of Paradise But now she could not feel that the innocent suffering of others was inflicted for her fault; she shrank instinctively from that cruel and egotistic misinterpretation of the mystery of pain and loss. The Rise of Silas Lapham Circumstances have made it seem rather egotistic in me to urge the subject; but that is not my fault: it is because there is a fight being made against it by the other medical men. Middlemarch And so there hovered in my curiosity some little flicker of egotistic romance, which helped to rouse my spirits, and spur me on to action. Wylder's Hand The falsehood, the vilely egotistic ambition of one man, chock-full to the lips with personal jealousy, a madman posing as a genius, wrecked all my plans. The Great Secret Some day, bit by bit, it'll blow away, and his rather impressive talent with it, and leave only a wisp of a man, fretful and egotistic and garrulous. The Beautiful and Damned As she sat there, wrapped up in her egotistic anguish, two young people, probably a shop-girl and her young man, passed, sauntering along, holding hands, and swinging their arms. Love's Shadow And in the next, there were in her strains of romantic, egotistic ability to which nothing in them corresponded. The Case of Richard Meynell It is," he went on, "from no egotistic motive that I wish the Press to be strongly represented to-night. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Always looking at everything from a personal, egotistic point of view. Sanine Think of those dreary, egotistic, awful evenings, when, for more than twenty years this infernal hypocrite kept himself company and tried patiently to deceive God by flattering Him about religion! The Delicious Vice By reminding himself that others have made mistakes, why should not he, and that it is somewhat egotistic on his part to insist that, whatever others may do, he must do everything right. Why Worry? We have no more right to be egotistic on paper than we have a right to be dull or disagreeable. Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Anger is in its very nature egotistic and selfish, and has in it nothing of holiness. The Elements of Character His absorption in his new character was not entirely egotistic. The Mountebank Calvin was of a pallid, bloodless complexion, thin, sickly, irritable, gloomy, impatient, egotistic, tyrannical, heartless and infamous. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest Is it not rather egotistic for me to suppose that others are vitally interested in the fact that I blush, tremble, or am awkward? Why Worry? I would not be ashamed to have you show the foregoing sentence to your teacher, if it could be worked, in a quiet way, so as not to look egotistic on my part. Remarks And why not the I, the I! cried the spirit of youth, the egotistic spirit of the age. Together But we worked away at it, and perhaps my readers may discover even in this narrative, though it is necessarily egotistic, evidence of at least an honest effort not to be baldly boastful. The Deluge He sees that egotistic materialism has superseded the ideal aspirations of the ghetto. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) She was the reverse of egotistic and never spoke of herself; her success in life sprang from a much wiser adoption of pronouns. The Reverberator The second paragraph is merely an egotistic statement. Business Correspondence Some called him egotistic and proud, while others declared themselves enchanted with him; some again maintained that he was theatrical, others that he was not to be trusted. The Precipice She looked for nests and called 'Thuckoo!' to the cuckoos, and found a young one, savagely egotistic, not ready for flight physically, but ready for untold things psychically. Gone to Earth Ah, this egotistic joy, this intense joy of not belonging to it, was it to give place to the terrible anguish of being struck in his turn? Doctor Pascal The "Confessions" are only a revelation of that sensibility, excessive and morbid, which reminds us of Byron and his misanthropic poetry,--showing a man defiant, proud, vain, unreasonable, unsatisfied, supremely worldly and egotistic. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam They accuse England of perpetuating for egotistic ends the state of anarchy. The European Anarchy At present there is a vigorous campaign in America, Russia, the neutral countries generally, to represent British patriotism as equally egotistic, and our purpose in this war as a mere parallel to the German purpose. In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace Club tradition declared that he had been admitted solely for the beneficent purpose of keeping the more egotistic members in a permanent and pleasing glow of superiority. Average Jones The language of the Epicurean is intensely egotistic. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. It is not surprising that the wide influence which Greeley acquired made him egotistic. The Life of Abraham Lincoln But Maggie's face, made more childlike by the gathering tears, touched him with a tenderer, less egotistic feeling. The Mill on the Floss In presence of the paralysed woman, she resumed her manner of frigid cruelty and egotistic indifference. Theresa Raquin Nevertheless I am not afraid to affirm, by analogy, that the people living therein resemble ourselves, are egotistic cowards, perfidious gluttons, dissolute. The Queen Pedauque Wealth and power had inflated them with false security, with egotistic aims; or else had enervated them and undermined their strength. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The successful men become egotistic, and it is a common, well-nigh universal, practise for all sorts and conditions of men to speak harshly of the authorities. The Life of Abraham Lincoln As with any man truly great, this left him no more selfish, no more egotistic, than is the stringed instrument which, under the miracle of a higher power, finds itself capable of music. The Law of the Land He kissed her as he kissed his mother, by habit, without losing any of his egotistic tranquillity. Theresa Raquin Or again, some people cannot objectify their sensual egotistic impulses and feelings; for them the reading of a Boccaccio, for example, is only a substitute for such feelings, not a means of insight into them. The Principles of Aesthetics To be egoistic is not to be egotistic. Without Prejudice Such careers put to shame the self-centred, egotistic, morbid pessimism which has found so many voices in recent years that its cowardly outcries have almost drowned the great, sane, authoritative voices of the world. Essays on Work and Culture That desire was the one real and substantial thing in a somewhat superficial, egotistic, and finessing character. Stella Fregelius But he only recovered his ease and egotistic calm when in the dining-room, seated before an enormous bowl of coffee and milk, which Therese prepared for him. Theresa Raquin She had found him only a man, self-conscious, egotistic and domineering. The One Woman The philanthropist would have been more within the bounds of the reasonable if he had demanded that disease should be more egotistic and less epidemic. Without Prejudice And it is in direct opposition to the noted writer who holds that the man of simple faith is worth ninety-nine of those who hold only to the egotistic interests of their own individuality. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi I'm a federal officer," he asserted with egotistic pride, "a member of the Government's Secret Service Department. Mary Louise They had hesitated during the hours of indifference, both being oblivious of the egotistic and impassioned reasons that had urged them to the crime, and which were now dispelled. Theresa Raquin Perhaps a finer specimen than old V____, of this genius of egotistic, meddling mortals, never existed. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 Although they seemed to be making progress, they knew that they were dealing with a people not only excitable and egotistic, but steeped in guile, and distrustful by nature. The Ne'er-Do-Well But there, see what an egotistic fellow I am! Miss Lou This also he unlocked on the table, and with the same unerring egotistic eye on of the company saw the words, written in large letters: "Turnbull, James." The Ball and the Cross Every countenance wore an air of egotistic beatitude. Theresa Raquin And she felt all the bitterness of age against youth—youth egotistic, harsh, cruel, uncompromising; youth that is so crude, so ignorant of life, so slow to understand! The Old Wives' Tale Finally, there is an exaltation of sympathies, egotistic pleasures of all kinds are doubled by another's sympathetic participation, and the pleasures of another are added to the egotistic pleasures. The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; a study in hygiene State of soul is, as Doctor Schulze has observed, simply the egotistic human vanity for state of body. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel Another wretched woman has the simple egotistic mania that she has caused the duel. The Ball and the Cross There were, needless to say, selfless exceptions to the egotistic rule. After the Rain : how the West lost the East In one sense we must be egotistic, if self-knowledge is egotism. From a College Window Transition is called for from a precarious, egotistic and incomplete life to a life that shall be fraternal, a little more certain, a little more happy. The Life of the Bee Now, there's"—and he struck the open letter in his hand with a flourishing, egotistic gesture—"an offer from the General Steel Company. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel They have not fled to the depths of forest or desert, or sought egotistic shelter in narrow cells. Wisdom and Destiny We all know that politics are the field in which the purely egotistic elements of society enter into the most entangled combinations with altruistic aspirations. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Only save yourself from my love, which is so cowardly, so egotistic, so hard-hearted; it has no strength in itself to choose banishment or death. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends Stay till you hear the postscript from his own hand:" "'My dear cousin: You must pardon my egotistic ambition, if I do not allow the siege of Gab to be prosecuted without me. Prince Eugene and His Times I see with dismay that this exceedingly gifted artist is perishing in his egotistic solitude. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 No, it's your nature—your cold, narrow, egotistic nature—which only lets you care for things outside yourself in a cold, narrow way. Maurice Guest And finally, in several species, such as rats, marmots, hares, etc., sociable life is maintained notwithstanding the quarrelsome or otherwise egotistic inclinations of the isolated individual. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution "Oh, those narrow-minded, egotistic men," exclaimed the queen, indignantly. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times Absorbed in his egotistic feelings, Jonah looked up in surprise, and his anger vanished. Jonah He realized the emotional, egotistic, and artistic soul. The Titan Don't think me foolishly superstitious, Miss Dent, or too egotistic. On the Firing Line That humility which is love casting out selfishness, the most egotistic of the passions triumphing over itself—Mavering experienced it to the full. April Hopes Do not desecrate this room by your cold and egotistic thoughts, and by your heartless calculations! Louisa of Prussia and Her Times A man cannot always expect to think of a natty thing to say under such circumstances, and so it is pure egotistic ostentation to put it off. The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches Our sense of duty, of obligation, of blame or praise is all hopelessly egotistic. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) Something, much indeed of him was hers, the egotistic part of a man that does really give, but that keeps back much, and that seeks much more than it gives. A Spirit in Prison As the gray fog deepened into night, she drew Carry closer towards her, and, above the prattle of the child, pursued a vein of sentimental and egotistic recollection at once bitter and dangerous. Tales of the Argonauts That had been well enough for the earlier time, though about this, as about his other affairs, Ralph had never been egotistic. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Boyishly egotistic as it was in attitude, it seemed to be written less OF himself than TO her; in its delicate because unconscious flattery, it made her at once the provocation and excuse. A First Family of Tasajara There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles,—egotistic always, as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on that. The Story of a Mine "What I have certainly gained is freedom," he began seriously, but did not continue, noticing that this theme was too egotistic. War and Peace On the other hand, to be egotistic, I have known editors reject the attempts of those old days, and afterwards express lively delight in them when they struggled into print, somehow, somewhere. How to Fail in Literature; a lecture Monsieur, he is so egotistic that he has not a friend in the world but me. White Lies "Well, do you think I am egotistic?" he continued, seating himself beside me. Boyhood Consequently this egotistic consciousness completely annulled any element of sincerity in my woe. Childhood That is a little tale of journalism as it is; if you call it egotistic and ask what is the use of it I think I could tell you. A Miscellany of Men But the impulse of joy is candidly egotistic. The Children She had led, on the whole, so far, an egotistic life. Other Things Being Equal But how egotistic I am, even to my mother. Mae Madden The night was cold; the stars shone with unkindly brilliancy; people were hurrying along the streets in two egotistic, jostling streams. Roads of Destiny They need not have been more egotistic than the “Roundabout Papers.” Essays in Little But the uncultured, the narrow, the inexperienced, the young and the strongly egotistic never detach themselves from their opinions, and their opinions are themselves. The Foundations of Personality Educated to maintain the icy manners, the Britannic and egotistic deportment which I described to you, she opens and shuts her heart with the ease of a British mechanism. The Lily of the Valley As the gray fog deepened into night, she drew Carry closer toward her, and, above the prattle of the child, pursued a vein of sentimental and egotistic recollection at once bitter and dangerous. Selected Stories of Bret Harte You are cowardly, you know, and very egotistic. Adventure Nor will men be egotistic as they are now. The Soul of Man under Socialism So there are specialists in caution and "common sense," self-controlled, never rash, calculating, cool and egotistic, narrow and successful. The Foundations of Personality |
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