| 单词 | self-absorption |
| 例句 | As the weeks crept on, Harry could not help but notice, even through his new self-absorption, that Ron seemed to be taking charge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But insulated by her money, a staff of paid attendants, and unwavering self-absorption, Pittman was heedless of the resentment and scorn she inspired in others; she remained as oblivious as Jane Austen’s Emma. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Joe breathed shallowly, afraid that any sound might drag her out of her self-absorption. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sparrow’s still in the garden, pouting about something,” said Ruby, her self-absorption apparently admitting no hint as to what that something might be. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I think to get to that level of stardom, you've got to have a very high degree of self-absorption. Bowie and me 2013-02-23T08:00:24Z So while following the anthrax trail, Holmes also searches for some “answer” to Alistair’s death before conceding that he is driven by fear for his own sobriety and, more important, an addict’s self-absorption. ‘Elementary’ affirms its place as the smartest study of recovery on TV 2014-04-24T19:18:54Z Abrams, pretended to examine how self-absorbed we are as a culture but got gobbled up by its own self-absorption. Review: 10 Cloverfield Lane Is a Nonsequel That Delivers 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z In my complete adolescent self-absorption Beckett was less a human being than a character in a thinly-veiled roman a clef about me. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z It’s about infatuation and self-absorption, and doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with race — Mr. Peele’s acid portrayal could be of an ego monster of any color. In ‘Key & Peele’ Season Premiere, a Shift in Tone and Volume 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z I'm tired — of my family's reluctance to do anything themselves, their nonstop drama and their self-absorption, which means my wants are rarely heard. Perspective | When relatives act like turkeys, it’s okay to skip out on family Thanksgiving 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z And, of course, fluids are fascinating to children, a source of endless self-absorption, which is the weakness Bjork is most inclined to indulge. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z A group of interrelated professional people, incubating various doomed romances, are used to demonstrate inspired self-absorption and powerless vision. Table; Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-20T23:08:26Z It is an easy target, a perverse distillation of all the self-regard and self-absorption ascribed to what’s often called the millennial generation. The Year of the Imaginary College Student 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z In a ham-handed diatribe near the end of the film he denounces their materialism and self-absorption. Movie Review: ‘Little White Lies,’ From Guillaume Canet, With Jean Dujardin 2012-08-23T21:35:51Z In the alchemy of her affection, Jack’s despair is transmuted into comedy, his self-absorption into passion. Review | In ‘Jack,’ Marilynne Robinson’s fourth Gilead novel, a lost soul embarks on an impossible love affair 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z The scene played, to me, as an example of Alicia’s hubris and self-absorption, but maybe I’m the sexist one. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Never Mind Law, It's Politics! 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z In fact, it is never entirely clear what she sees in Chinonso, for all his possessiveness and self-absorption. A Lovestruck Poultry Farmer on a Journey Far From Home 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z The sun and the wine have brought out the worst of their sluggishness and self-absorption, and their lethargy permeates the film like smog. Four Movies About Summer to Stream Now 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Detractors may wince at so much self-absorption, but it is actually a large part of Mr. Olbermann’s appeal. The TV Watch: Keith Olbermann’s Show Has Its Debut on ESPN2 2013-08-27T21:44:31Z For all the acerbic humor that Sweeney wrings from this family’s self-absorption, she maintains a refreshing balance of tenderness. ‘The Nest’ review: What happens when that nest egg cracks? 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Why is it, wondered Linda Wells, founding editor of Allure magazine, that fashion is considered self-expression and makeup is self-absorption? Alicia Keys and the ‘Tyranny of Makeup’ 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z We have ascribed to the genre certain flattening traits—a degree of self-absorption, a preoccupation with authenticity, the presence of a writer as a protagonist—that can seem like so much “idle pondering.” The Overlooked Autofiction of Yuko Tsushima 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z For her, it is a chance to demonstrate her self-absorption and cluelessness about the rest of the world, repeatedly. Movie Review: ‘Tanzania: A Journey Within,’ an Emotional Travelogue 2014-04-25T00:55:32Z Call it self-consciousness, call it self-absorption, call it self-defence, but every gesture seems carefully designed, and every syllable weighed and measured for the ripples it will produce when lobbed into the pond. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z But what really confounds her is the depressive’s maddening self-absorption, a mind trapped in that mesmeric hall of mirrors where every affirmation of hope looks ridiculous and the only pathway seems to spiral downward. Book review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows,’ by Miriam Toews A caustic review of her 2006 memoir in The Atlantic posited that Ms. Jong was doomed to “eternal self-imitation” after the success of “Fear of Flying,” and skewered her “stunning self-absorption.” Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z I think the outbursts are less about publicity to the outside world than self-absorption. Morrissey, this joke isn't funny anymore 2010-09-03T22:25:00Z Mr. Shatner’s genial, relaxed self-absorption is a large part of his charm, along with his odd cadences and his unparalleled knack for blurring the line between pomposity and sincerity. | 'The Captains': To Boldly Go: A Starfleet Six-Pack 2011-07-21T22:07:45Z Writing about Kronman’s book in the Times, David Brooks worried that born-again paganism would lead to “laxness”: “It throws each person back on himself and leads to self-absorption,” he wrote. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Her naivete in mistaking Onegin's self-absorption for profundity of spirit is painful to watch, as is her flinching distress when he rebuffs her. Onegin – review 2013-01-27T00:06:11Z His self-absorption is sometimes amusing and often quite annoying. 'Queen of the Lot': an aspiring starlet's further adventures in Tinseltown 2010-12-16T21:52:08Z It’s a millennial murder mystery where every new clue is obliterated by the cataclysmic self-absorption of the lead characters. Tired of rewatching Fleabag? Here are 30 TV hidden gems to stream 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Born and raised in France, he lived in Los Angeles and captured the self-absorption of some of the city’s inhabitants with a mixture of amusement and alarm. ‘The Mood Room’ Review: 1980s Anomie, California Style 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z A: An uncompromising self-absorption which alienates others and compromises the well-being of all. Are parents creating generation of narcissism? 2011-05-10T14:56:04Z Such frailties are the endearing face of the self-absorption that envelops these adventures in charityland. Forbidden Lessons in a Kabul Guesthouse by Suraya Sadeed, with Damien Lewis ? review 2011-07-29T21:57:02Z My lyrics should change, my label’s executives said; radio programmers avoid subjects too far from fun and self-absorption. Opinion: K’naan, on Censoring Himself For Success 2012-12-08T18:30:19Z It may be that chance remark was the seed of this novel, for Walter feels the same indignation, arguing that the American obsession with personal liberty breeds self-absorption and global irresponsibility. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z I am disturbed by the idea of being narcissistic, and yet I find other people’s self-absorption merely embarrassing. What Happens When We Decide Everyone Else Is a Narcissist 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z I found this piece absolutely horrifying in its sheer ignorance of the depths of self-absorption and immaturity on display. An Optimist’s Guide to Divorce 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z And that makes the episode all the more startling, because Louis C.K. is normally hyper-self-aware, and much of his humor lies in exposing the absurdity in his own self-absorption. The TV Watch: Louis C.K. Returns With His Brand of Dark Comedy 2014-05-04T21:45:12Z It's what deprives his characters' inner struggles of any dramatic interest and what makes his supposedly profound philosophical insights so trite and useless, at least to anyone who lacks his self-absorption. Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z That really bothered Mr. Corcoran, who saw it as yet another act of disassociation and self-absorption, a thing for others to “carry” with them for the rest of their lives. The Wine Thief 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z Because if there’s one thing that ruins Christmas more than self-absorption, it’s pedantry. 8 social media no-nos on Christmas Day | Stuart Heritage 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Save yourself from her cruelty, poor boundaries and breathtaking self-absorption. She knows about colleges because she’s an MBA (Mother with Bad Attitude) 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z He simultaneously satirized the post-hippie self-absorption of Southern California, registered the narrow-minded brutality of the cops and gangsters, and signaled his fondness for an old Hollywood that was already history in 1973. Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ Is Popular Again 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z With a birth date in 1987, Criss falls squarely in the generation maligned for what is perceived as its maddening self-absorption. A millennial Hedwig? Darren Criss talks about a new generation rocking to this 'Angry Inch' 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z And once you start reckoning with Anomalisa’s obsession with self-absorption, the novelty of this one-man pity party begins to wear off. Review: In Anomalisa, Puppets Have Problems Too 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Bianca was everything Frank ever dreamed of — wealthy enough to supply his insatiable habits and tolerant of his self-absorption. What’s the best show about poverty, crime and crazy sex? It’s ‘Shameless.’ 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Is there such a thing as a gift for literary narcissism, where self-absorption isn’t just pretentious but purposeful, even revelatory? ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z His Produce is amusing and likable and exactly what Calvin needs to shake off his self-absorption. Review: ‘Where Hope Grows,’ a Baseball Career Lost and Relationships Found 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Despite a whiff of self-absorption in this project, Laing is astute and incisive, and her conclusion that “loneliness is personal, and it is also political” is hard-won and affecting. Finalists for the NBCC Criticism prize 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Like Kanye, this man was the pinnacle of popular music during his prime, and he had a preoccupying self-absorption that made him compelling. Is Kanye West the next John Lennon? 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Neurotic self-absorption is a common occupational hazard for today’s artists. Art Review: ?Off the Wall: Part 1,? Performance Art at Whitney 2010-07-29T20:08:00Z West is of special interest because he seems almost unable to move from huge self-absorption to a rudimentary grasp of the public world. How Fox News created a new culture of idiots 2012-10-28T12:00:00Z When female novelists write about female characters, or domesticity, or children, they face subtle charges of self-absorption—their perspectives classified as all-too-knowable and thus not worth knowing. One Year of #MeToo: “He Said, She Said” Is a Literary Problem, Too 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Just when her self-indulgence becomes wearying, she cuts through it with a critique of her own self-absorption. Can Sobriety Be as Interesting as Addiction? A Writer Wonders 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z But Mars tore into the part with astonishing gusto, bringing a genuine air of derangement, as well as hints of childlike self-absorption, to the hopelessly misguided Liebkind. Kenneth Mars obituary 2011-02-15T18:47:58Z Drake, too, in his first Coachella performance, used the drift and silences in his music in much the same way: as openings to let the audience share his powerful self-absorption. Talent vs. Buzz: the Push-Pull of Coachella 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z On “Ye,” Mr. West’s focus is not on America but on his all-encompassing self-absorption: as a celebrity, a rapper enmeshed in beefs, a husband, a parent and a case study in bipolar disorder. Kanye West Writes a Song of Himself on ‘Ye’ 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z At the same time, Sara grows more and more impatient with the flakiness and self-absorption that are apparently universal aspects of the artistic temperament. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Billed as a comedy, the play means in part to gibe the ruthless self-absorption of successful artists, but this lopsided production manages that only intermittently. Theater Review: ‘The Shape of Something Squashed’ Takes a Poke at Actors 2014-03-05T18:04:22Z Does her awareness of it make up for self-absorption? Lena Dunham and Laurie Penny rewrite womanhood for the 21st century 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Much of “Songs” revolves around lost love, and the self-recrimination, self-absorption, self-examination and, sometimes, self-absolution that can come in its wake. John Fullbright's 'Songs' album follows long-shot Grammy nod 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The concert takes up a lot of time, which is nice, as is watching Mr. Badgley, whose cheekbones and Byronic mop fit his character’s brooding self-absorption. Movie Review: ‘Greetings From Tim Buckley,’ With Penn Badgley 2013-05-02T22:57:25Z But Scott is roused from his self-absorption by the woman’s crazy vivacity, and he tries to help her out. David Denby: “Third Person” and “22 Jump Street” Reviews 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z His pride in his concept and self-absorption with the new label, he reckoned, didn’t allow him to understand its impact on someone else. How to Handle the Hate in America’s Musical Heritage 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z We need to remember the end result of a life of ignoring the consequences of our self-absorption is deadly.” Affluenza: the history of the 'disease' that plagues the wealthy and privileged 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z As it stands, “No End” is easy fodder for those who would accuse Mr. Jarrett of vanity or self-absorption; it’s partly dedicated “to my friends and to my enemies.” Critic’s Notebook: Keith Jarrett and His Trio Will Play at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:18:15Z But all the people onstage, even the ones we’re supposed to like, display a whiny self-absorption that often makes them unsympathetic. 'Heart of Robin Hood' walks (and runs, and occasionally trips) along a new path in Sherwood Forest 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z LeBlanc is a raw, throaty singer whose songs balance self-absorption with an often beautiful, melancholy tunefulness. Dylan LeBlanc – review 2012-07-18T16:19:00Z By the time Beauvais dismisses some chestnut trees as “bland,” the movie screams nothing so much as the pained self-absorption of depression — an anguished revelation, but dead-on. ‘Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream’ Review: Writing With Movies 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z If it were not for the fact that these people are so tedious in their drunken self-absorption, you might be tempted to reach for the bottle yourself. The Sun Also Rises 2010-08-15T20:31:00Z As the name suggests, inarticulacy was a defining characteristic of mumblecore, along with hesitancy, self-absorption and a lack of inertia so terminal you couldn't really describe it as a movement at all. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z Some people are annoyed by their egoism or self-absorption. Tennessee Williams lambasted his rivals as 'vampires' 2013-02-17T00:06:15Z While there is no ban on your responding individually to each “Happy bday Cindi!!!!” doing so 100 times in a public way may convey an impression of self-absorption rather than gratitude. Perspective | Miss Manners: Replying to online birthday wishes 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z The show laughs at its characters, and therefore at our self-absorption; it holds the mirror up and shows us there's nothing there. Smoke and Mirrors 2010-08-18T20:30:00Z What concerns me more than her exercise in futility, though, is her exercise in self-absorption. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: His love interest wants him to cross his heart (and not break hers) 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z His self-absorption is at worst a venial sin, and his book's failings should be charged to its editor. John Lydon recalls life as a punk (and beyond) in 'Anger Is an Energy' 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Joyce was an enemy of the Irish Literary Revival, which he excoriated as pretentious self-absorption and self-exaltation in the name of the authentic. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z “What is the price for all this fame and self-absorption?” he sings on “Earthquake Driver,” continuing, “We turn ourselves into orphans/And then spend our nights alone/Living in fear of some imaginary consequence.” Maroon 5 and Counting Crows Offer New Albums 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z By then, her “scudding moods,” as Morton usefully describes them, had hardened into “rudeness and self-absorption.” Review | Before Harry and Meghan, the Windsor sisters stirred the pot. A new book delves into their story. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z With its Brooklyn vibe and whiff of self-absorption, this dark comedy was devised with millennials in mind, down to the way it’s meant to be binged: two late-night episodes for five days running. What’s on TV Monday 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Here is early, raw evidence both of the Wooster Group’s displacing use of technology in live performance and of Gray’s gift for translating deep self-absorption into accessible art. Movie Review: Spalding Gray on Video in ‘Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road’ 2014-04-30T21:34:06Z It turns out that Hunter Thompson was just about what you might expect as a father, “always brilliant, often monstrous, sometimes tender and funny,” and essentially ruthless in his self-absorption and drive. ‘Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S. Thompson’ review 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z His molding of shape and form has a beautifully economical quality in “Romance,” bringing to mind Jerome Robbins’s “Afternoon of a Faun” in its mix of self-absorption and innocence. In ‘Dutch Doubles,’ 4 Choreographers, Inspired by 4 Artists 2014-04-21T12:35:07Z It was a stinging, brooding performance that captured the destructiveness of an artist’s self-absorption, and it too has lingered in my recollection. ‘Faith Healer’ Review: Michael Sheen Stirs the Embers in the Ashes 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z It doesn’t promise any second act once adolescent angst and self-absorption start to wear thin. Music Review: Growing Older With Less Empathy 2010-10-15T22:59:00Z As “Endlings” alternates between the young playwright’s self-absorption and the old divers’ self-abnegation, the tone eventually spirals into surrealism. Review: In ‘Endlings,’ the Pain of Swimming Between Worlds 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Though we're expected to applaud Merida's self-absorption, she sometimes shows signs of unexplained guilt. Brave by name, bland by nature 2012-08-20T10:03:02Z There's a lot less romance: – the sisters' chief traits are kooky grins and insufferable self-absorption. Beeswax: Film review 2010-04-15T21:20:00Z "I'm about halfway through and I find the main character's self-absorption annoying," s/he said. Reading group: Michel in The Immoralist: 'Are we supposed to like this guy?' 2012-07-19T08:45:21Z It seems counterintuitive to say that we are entering an unreflective cultural phase, as our time tends to be criticized for its self-absorption. The End of Reflection 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s not a class in acting or comedy so much as it is a seminar in agelessness and professionalism, and in Short’s unmatched ability to turn self-absorption into a virtue. Review: Martin Short Kills in ‘Only Murders in the Building’ 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z He’s the rare writer who has made self-absorption work for him. Review: Book 5 of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z This quadrant’s task is to shed self-absorption and move toward the wisdom of equanimity, which embraces others as equals. Want to Change Your Life? A New Exhibition Offers a Path. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z PBS’s “Sherlock,” set in contemporary London, ingeniously converts 19th-century technology to today’s world of smartphones, blogs, surveillance cameras and GPS, without adopting the attendant self-absorption and psychobabble. The TV Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Sherlock’ Is Back on PBS 2014-01-17T23:38:27Z But while the series encourages us to see BoJack’s own self-absorption as a response to a traumatic childhood, it also insists that BoJack not be given a free pass. How BoJack Horseman became the most empathetic show on television 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z But in songs and stage patter, she sometimes conflated self-realization and self-absorption with social progress. Madonna Is Still Taking Chances 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Like a lot of addiction stories, it starts to mirror the monotony and self-absorption of the addict’s life. Movie Review: Living a Drug Life in a World of Snow 2011-06-07T22:17:51Z If we don’t get excited for the baby, we are heartless shrews driven by the beat of our own self-absorption. I do not care about your baby 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z And that’s very upsetting to us baby boomers because self-absorption is kind of our thing.” Stephen Colbert to UVA: “You must always make the path for yourself” 2013-05-20T15:21:00Z With its fawning worship of Jim Morrison's self-destruction/self-absorption and "Hey kids, this is the 60s!" take on history, this shallow doc's unlikely to earn the band any new fans. This week's new film releases 2010-07-02T23:06:00Z On the one hand, that youthful self-absorption allows some members to achieve extraordinary creative success. Amazon’s Literary Forays for TV: ‘The Interestings’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The old guys wrote characters who were, according to Wallace, marked by an “uncritical celebration” of their own “radical self-absorption.” Men in books 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z As with the excellent first season of “Weeds,” the humor in “Orange” is often sharp, particularly when it focuses on Chapman’s self-absorption and neuroses. Television Review: ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ a Nexflix Series 2013-07-10T20:13:07Z She was once asked if her intense self-absorption and self-awareness were healthy or perhaps held the possibility of turning her into a hypochondriac. Maria Lassnig, Painter of Self From the Inside Out, Dies at 94 2014-05-09T05:29:35Z Mainstream rock favored flannel shirts, long hair, intense self-absorption and classic rock filtered through a punk ethos. Afghan Whigs’ Greg Dulli: “Writing songs is the greatest gift I could give myself” 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z "When does a healthy interest in yourself start morphing into self-absorption and eventually into full-blown narcissism?" he asks. Are parents creating generation of narcissism? 2011-05-10T14:56:04Z AND it was only then that I registered, through the haze of my youthful self-absorption, the significance of my own parents’ meeting. Modern Love: Modern Love: A Family Fairy Tale, Twice Told 2012-03-22T22:09:06Z It was at turns heartbreaking and maddening in its self-absorption. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z What’s left behind is both that barely concealed anger but now, too, his melancholy, his lonely self-absorption, an inability to see or love the people around him for who they really are. Emma Cline on Anger and Nostalgia 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Storr suggests that the self-esteem fad, which went mainstream in the late 1980s and 1990s, evolved into the epidemic of digitally enhanced self-absorption from which we are said to suffer today. How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z It is an uncompromisingly unfunny exercise in self-love and self-absorption, in which nothing in the movie is convincingly real, and yet there is also nothing among its baroque inventions likely to raise a laugh. Lola Versus 2012-07-19T21:08:01Z The juxtaposition of everyone’s self-absorption with the fact that a woman is in danger is appealing, adding gravity to the levity. TV for hipsters: how two new shows are trying to appeal to the cool kids 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z And, of course, an endless supply of gorgeous, vacuous, often shirtless women, because apparently there’s nothing a gal likes more in a guy than stupidity, self-absorption and a knack for treating the opposite sex dismissively. Review: ‘Ballers,’ on HBO, Follows a Financial Guru to the Sports Stars 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s one of the things that make this show distinctive: it’s empathetic and understanding of its characters yet unsparing of their self-absorption. Girls Watch: Don’t Tell Me You Love Me 2013-01-14T15:06:57Z Yet the practice of manifesting remains suspect and associated with youthful self-absorption. Manifesting, for the Rest of Us 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z But its spoof of rap's "me, me, me" self-absorption is a bit rich, at the start of a show about Brown's life, his celebrity friends and his terrible struggle to accept that he isn't famous. Doc Brown 2010-08-08T14:45:00Z The next one – My Day – is a Prufrock-like exercise, Cosmo imagining himself as an old man looking back on his youth, criticising his generation's self-absorption and apathy. Cosmo Jarvis: 'My generation is the worst' 2011-08-11T21:30:01Z Much of "Songs" revolves around lost love and the self-recrimination, self-absorption, self-examination and, sometimes, self-absolution that can come in its wake. John Fullbright aims to connect, uplift with 'Songs' 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z While both Thanos and Iron Man balance egotism with idealism in the beginning, and neither fully shed their arrogance or self-absorption, Iron Man's redeeming quality was his willingness to learn from his mistakes. The politics of "Avengers: Endgame" 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z But he keeps his cool – which, when set against fellow detective Jimmy McNulty’s spectacular self-absorption, only makes him shine brighter. Larry David to Lisa Simpson – life lessons from TV's top role models 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Why do we separate the insularity of parenthood from any other act of self-absorption? I do not care about your baby 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z Internet use has developed in ways that have normalized self-absorption and conspicuous consumption; our society’s feel-good relationship with the internet has anaesthetized the gradual but near total loss of privacy involved in the tradeoff. Julian Assange’s latest wake-up call 2013-04-30T17:42:00Z In place of a traditional plot, we’re given vignettes of quiet despair or anecdotes of minor irritation all distilled into a syrup of poisonous self-absorption. Review | Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel ‘Whereabouts’ is a delicate exploration of despair 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z The artful editing, combined with the obliviousness of peripheral figures, conveys the self-absorption of a sexual unit and their pattern repetition — wherever these two may be, they’re still tussling in bed. The Dance on Camera Festival, When Dance Is Only on Camera 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Instead of screaming at people, Amy suffuses them with her Zen self-absorption and mission to change the world one yoga pose at a time. Television Review: ?Enlightened? Stars Laura Dern on HBO - Review 2011-10-09T22:00:00Z The lute suggests self-absorption, the letter suggests longing, the maid standing nearby suggests surprise and the physical space suggests the usual luminescent cocoon of Vermeer’s best interiors. Review | Ten Vermeers, but a whole world of Dutch art 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z “Maybe life’s not supposed to be as meaningful as we think it is,” a fellow addict says during group, perhaps realizing that self-absorption can be an even tougher habit to kick than booze. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z It also constitutes a bit of misdirection, in that there is a bigger picture outside of this chronicle of self-absorption. Review: In ‘Happy End,’ Another Unhappy Family From Michael Haneke 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s the lowest moment for Rob in High Fidelity, funny only in the cavernous depths of blinkered self-absorption that is the true reason why he’s unlucky in love. High Fidelity at 20: the sneakily dark edge of a comedy about bad breakups 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z It's a proud, bratty self-absorption, which she acted out in performance by descending, for much of her set, from the stage into the audience, where only those nearby could see her. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Alex Winston's Mother Likes What She Sees 2012-10-17T14:31:27Z Clearly, while the reclusive German artist's subject matter is rooted in his childhood, his concerns are far from mushy self-absorption or confession. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z Culture, like climate, demands assessment at global scale — and if art has any objective in the Anthropocene, it’s to dissolve our ecocidal self-absorption and find our reflections in the lives of those unlike us. Best Art of 2019 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z It all tends to self-absorption, which is disappointing from a comic capable of sociocultural insight. Russell Kane – review 2012-10-29T17:26:22Z The new study of song lyrics certainly won't end the debate, but it does offer another way to gauge self-absorption: the Billboard Hot 100 chart. A generation's vanity, heard through lyrics 2011-04-26T05:37:04Z "Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle." Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z Mr. Holland, meanwhile, matures before our eyes, navigating the passage from adolescent self-absorption to profound and terrible responsibility. Movie Review: ‘The Impossible,’ With Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor 2012-12-21T02:00:13Z Now I can only wonder how many of the possible civilizations out there destroyed themselves out of greed, lust, stupidity and self-absorption, the depths of which have lately been reached in the House of Representatives. GOP finally picks a speaker: But the hellish chaos of D.C. won't end anytime soon 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z The interview went viral on Friday, prompting widespread criticism of Wenner and portraying him as embodying stereotypes about Baby Boomer self-absorption and entitlement. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ousts Jann Wenner from board after controversial interview 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z No. Rather are they stuck in, and prefer to remain in, an infinite loop of unfettered self-absorption, self-promotion, self-interestedness, self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement. Not made by great men: Enter the Little Man theory of history 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z As a result, her plaintive wooing merely heightens the self-absorption of her egotistical love object, Narcissus. Celebrate Women in Translation Month with these 6 audiobooks 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Identifying behaviors that make us recoil, like self-absorption and obliviousness, requires an ironic amount of self-reflection. Welcome to CringeTok, Where Being Insufferable Can Be Lucrative 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z That tends not to bring out anyone’s best, so maybe when he’s better situated, breathing mountain air, his contemptuous self-absorption will give way to something more suitable for life partnership. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Partner is pressuring her to relocate, ‘give’ him kids 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z His self-absorption is kind of the point, but it is a point stretched across 10 half-hours — more of a smear than a point. 'Shrinking' is the anti-'Ted Lasso,' built on a taxingly unlikable protagonist 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Is her struggle with self-regulation, or is it self-absorption, a need to show off how quick she is? Advice | Carolyn Hax: Wife finishes sentences for irked, slow-talking husband 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Plenty of the book will get people irritated too, particularly its self-absorption. Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z The novel is an acute portrayal of adolescent self-doubt, self-absorption and self-dramatization, and of the way the world and people in it change shape as one gathers new experiences. Not ready to leave Italy after 'The White Lotus'? Netflix has the show for you 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z The self-delusion and self-absorption factors stay high in Season 4 while leaving room for a little personal growth and heart. RIP 'Los Espookys,' illicit lovechild of Pedro Almodovar and Scooby Doo 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z This is Trumpism 2.0: a pugnacious, populist conservatism rooted in resentment but updated, more disciplined and free of the self-absorption of Trump’s version. Can Ron DeSantis ride the culture war to the White House? 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z Season 4 kept the bloody humor flowing by taking its main characters to new heights of self-delusion, self-absorption and even a little self-growth. 'Shadows' cast faces foiled dreams, failed businesses and a coming out story 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z In meetings with senior advisors and public health leaders she got an earful about a culture of scientific self-absorption that hobbled the agency’s central mission of public messaging. As global health threats evolved, the CDC didn't 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z Academics have posited that a mounting social narcissism may intersect with travel; a pursuit traditionally driven by wanderlust now seems beholden to an indifferent self-absorption. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Historically, the American glorification of the "common man" tends to feed demagoguery, favors the lowest common denominator and fuels self-absorption, religious fundamentalism and suspicion of the experts and other Others. America's heart of darkness: Making sense of the nonsensical allure of MAGA 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z But the film ultimately heads toward romanticized cliche with writing that undermines Johnson’s performance, which had held out as the last defense against Raiff’s seeming self-absorption. Analysis | ‘Persuasion’ is the latest film to misuse Dakota Johnson 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z In “The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults,” he reminds us that YouTube’s original motto was “Broadcast Yourself,” an invitation to self-absorption and self-celebration. Opinion | How millennials became aggressively illiberal, censorious young adults 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Now, we live in a world in which images of strangers' and celebrities' bodies flicker constantly across our social media feeds, inviting critique and mockery, self-absorption and obsession over minutiae. “My face looked wrong”: How body dysmorphic disorder changes your perception of yourself 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z At times, Min seems more motivated by self-absorption than his feelings for Yu-Jin. Review | ‘When We Fell Apart’ is a powerful story about women in Korean society 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z The force field created by total self-absorption is its own black hole. Perspective | Life was a ball with Roger Angell. How lucky we were to read about it. 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The woman’s self-absorption repeatedly put her son in peril. Review: Love among the ruins of Trump's America in Zachary Lazar's engrossing novel 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z “I really do think that there is some lack of empathy or intellectual arrogance or a disconnect that you have — a little bit of self-absorption,” the judge said. 4 years cut from man’s sentence in worker’s death at secret bunker 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z After my mother’s death, I found the stress of dealing with my sister’s self-absorption and anger increasingly difficult. Can I Sever Ties With My Selfish Sister? 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z For Trump, the suppurating wound on American life, and for those who share his curdled venom, war is a hellacious distraction from their self-absorption. Opinion | Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation’s sleeve 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z That level of self-absorption so often leads to mistakes. Opinion | Putin’s assault on Ukraine will shape a new world order 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z But one of the side effects of this self-absorption has been a dangerous lack of attention to various crises around the world. Opinion | The world’s forgotten crises all got worse in 2021 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Alana is impressed by Gary’s entrepreneurial smarts, but also frustrated by his immaturity and self-absorption — and by her own inability to tear herself away. Review: Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Licorice Pizza' is a valentine to the Valley. And Alana Haim 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z I said that an education grounded in self-absorption would inevitably yield to a nation full of self-absorbed people. When safe spaces for the coddled young move from college campus to tennis courts 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z For some swindled clients and unpaid vendors, however, the series is an offensive exercise in self-absorption and profiteering. The ‘Real Housewife’ under real scrutiny: Erika Girardi and the hunt for the missing millions 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z The Oscar nominations revealed on Monday included a perfect illustration of the depths of Hollywood’s self-absorption — and a reminder that the entertainment industry’s most vital quality is curiosity. Opinion | ‘Mank’ earned 10 Oscar nominations. It’s a perfect illustration of Hollywood’s self-absorption. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z I believe another part is a cultural and personal reckoning with why we continuously practice punishment over healing, hubris over humility, and self-absorption over collective reflection. To heal our collective trauma, we must first face it 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Between the slings and arrows born and the writer’s already well established tendency toward fruitful self-absorption, it is not surprising that Knausgaard spends too much time playing defense in “In the Land of the Cyclops.” Review: A navel-gazing Norwegian gets over himself, a little, in a new essay collection 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Why wouldn’t big dreams, hard work and big talent in childhood feed into a certain amount of self-delusion and self-absorption? Perspective | Dwayne Haskins has long been groomed for success, but maybe he was set up for failure 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z “The first evil that conflict leads us to, and which we must try to avoid, is gossip, idle chatter, which traps us in an unpleasant, sad and stifling state of self-absorption,” he said. Pope tells Vatican bureaucrats to stop gossipy conflicts 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z “But VGE never possessed JFK’s charisma, and his self-absorption caused the French to fall out of love with him despite his brilliance and accomplishment.” Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former French president, dies at 94 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z Or they devolve into dreamy self-absorption, mysticism and apocalyptic dread. Review: Nicole Krauss’ set of short fiction is a mixed bag 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z He had become increasingly dissatisfied with the self-absorption of the human race, with its focus on its own niche, and wealth and entertainment. Former editor doesn’t regret his move to photography 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Thank God Mr. Harper took his self-absorption, umpire-dissing and perpetual scowl to Philadelphia, and the Nats rode their old-school team spirit to a World Series championship, free from his “fun” attitude. Opinion | Baseball doesn’t need this kind of ‘joy’ 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In the past, such self-absorption troubled moralists, going back at least as far as the Greek myth of Narcissus. From digital filters to plastic surgery, "Zoom vanity" has a long history 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z But that reading is to observe it only through the lens of the elite, one distorted by self-absorption. Mason Greenwood and the Weight of Expectations 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z A satire of Hollywood’s self-absorption coinciding with the end of the planet, none of it is real ... except when it is. What Jim Carrey realized when he thought he had 10 minutes to live 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Now is not the time for reckless behavior in the name of politics or self-absorption. Editorial Roundup: Florida 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z He rails endlessly against “fake news,” which is any news story that gets too close to the truth about his gross incompetence, chronic self-absorption and perpetual mendacity. But how do you really feel about journalists, President Trump? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Of course that’s “self-absorption 101”, but it was early in life when I read Ginzburg and I felt my brain expand under her quiet wisdom. Books to broaden your horizons, by Hilary Mantel, Simon Schama, Lisa Taddeo and more 2020-05-23T04:00:00Z The west’s self-absorption threatens to obscure the virus’s harmful impact on treatment of non-Covid, preventable diseases. While the west fixates on Covid-19, vulnerable countries pay the price 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z What gladdens my heart about geese, and helps fend off the virus blues, is their complete self-absorption. Geese May Not Inspire You, but They Certainly Take Your Mind Off the Virus 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Being known for self-absorption and acquisitiveness is a burden. Perspective | The Silent Generation deserves to be heard in our classrooms 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Perhaps this is why the mirrors don’t feel gratuitous: they are not props concerned with viral self-absorption but strategic objects: negating, shifting, subverting. At the Hirshhorn, a showcase of recent acquisitions takes the temperature of the art world 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z As vivid as “The Inheritance” is, the question, tinged with youthful self-absorption, is beginning to bore me, just as I grow old enough to forget how much it once consumed me. How Today’s Queer Artists Are Revising History 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Even though huge armies were still in the field, clashing, Seward and Lincoln never indulge in self-absorption or braggadocio. Perspective | At the first national Thanksgiving, the Civil War raged 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z There was his batting, notable for its skill and tenacity but also for its turgidity and self-absorption, tending towards selfishness. Ashes 2019: England v Australia, fifth Test day one – live! 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z And they, Fonda above all, represented the quintessence of that era – its creative tumult, idealism, loss and self-absorption – on screen. Peter Fonda, the easy rider who tested the hippy dream 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z She recalls boomer activism and reprimands boomer self-absorption. Marianne Williamson Wants Politics to Enter the New Age 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Yes, online dating can be deeply demoralizing, a parade of indignities that throws into relief not just our self-absorption and banality, but our nihilism too. Opinion | In Praise of Online Dating 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The keynote was a sort of inside-out narcissism: artists’ self-absorption as a publicly engulfing phenomenon, under the godlike aegis of Harald Szeemann. Harald Szeemann’s Revolutionary Curating 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z The former popularity of the mindless slogan, “My country right or wrong,” offers a perfect summary of America’s suicidal self-absorption. Independent of everything: Is America too dumb for democracy? 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Finally, and arguably most central to this dark personality, is narcissism — “extreme self-absorption accompanied by an unrealistic, inflated image of oneself.” Review | Psychoanalyzing history’s meanest men 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z It embodies and celebrates unbridled selfishness and self-absorption. Trump will leave a legacy of selfishness and dishonesty | Joseph Stiglitz 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z The meetings lacked the self-absorption, the constant turning inward, that she felt at the clinic, where she attended therapy every day. The Challenge of Going Off Psychiatric Drugs 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z But of course there’s an element of fatal self-absorption to it all. Audience of One: Why Flattery Works in Trump’s Foreign Policy 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Ms. Athill, he added, “opened up what could have been a narrow story of injury and self-absorption into a book that takes pleasure in the world.” Diana Athill, British literary editor turned award-winning memoirist, dies at 101 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z But the complete integrity of Hesse’s self-absorption is what guarantees the permanence of his work. Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Castleman’s self-absorption is outward, he is the public face in the relationship with his wife. Jonathan Pryce: ‘I’d rather be Welsh than English, that’s for sure’ 2018-09-16T04:00:00Z A level of self-absorption is a necessity for most writers. All about me … the best books about self-obsession 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Time and energy are resources, and New Yorkers never have enough of either because of capitalism and self-absorption. Opinion | Americans Are Terrible at Small Talk 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z All memoirists share an essential challenge: how to keep self-awareness from vaulting into self-absorption. Glen David Gold’s new memoir is ‘a soiree of heart-wreck wised up by humor’ 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z We see ourselves and the world more clearly, Pollan suggests, as our fears, desires and self-absorption diminish. Yes, Make Psychedelics Legally Available, but Don't Forget the Risks 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The self-absorption of Rist and those who bought feathers from him is mind-boggling. Lit Life: Three true-crime stories that are stranger than fiction 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Emo’s general argument was that the proper response to futility was not to fight against it or even to wallow in existential longing but instead to deploy an excessive, almost comical level of self-absorption. That Feeling When You Miss the Early 2000s 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z This rococo deconstruction exemplified the very self-absorption that got us into this mess in the first place. Opinion | The News Isn’t Fake. But It’s Flawed. 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Some experts argued that autism involves poor introspection, not self-absorption. Ask Me First: What Self-Assessments Can Tell Us about Autism 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Both feed on the energy of self-absorption; both serve a desire to shape life into a narrative, to shave it down to a series of recountable exploits. Review | Will getting sober deaden a writer’s inspiration? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z The pageantry of class guilt is just wasted energy, designed to assuage the emotions of the privileged, and typical of the self-absorption that characterizes elitism. Opinion | Stop Apologizing for Being Elite 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z His self-absorption is such that he cannot see beyond his own fixation, which is that all of this has no meaning beyond the legitimacy of his own election. Opinion | We’ve just hit a new presidential low 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z Today, cynical politicians are capitalizing on our self-absorption. Perspective | A white mother went to Alabama to fight for civil rights. The Klan killed her for it. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Your comment is a perfect example of the elitism and self-absorption of California Democrats. California Today: A Tax Bill Test for State Republicans 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The simulated light curves include synchrotron self-absorption, which was not found to be important for the current parameters. The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817 : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The book makes the case that liberalism is now mired in identity politics that emphasize self-absorption and social movements rather than productive party politics. Inside the Beltway: TLC: Iwo Jima Memorial gets $5 million upgrade 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Says Lucy Adams, it brings "an incredible new dimension of self-absorption" to the world of sacking people. You're fired! Top tips for getting a sacking right - BBC News 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z It reflects our inability to learn anything from the European experience, as well as our own self-absorption. Taxes are higher than ever! Whites face discrimination! How do we combat alternative reality? 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z It feels like my inability to retain what is said to me in the face of my self-absorption. Rei Kawakubo, Interpreter of Dreams 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The simulated light curves include synchrotron self-absorption, which was not found to be important for the current parameters. The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817 : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Leaving aside the moral implications of this change – and whether it heralds greater self-absorption and social detachment – what is notable, for me, is the aftereffect. What if we’re living in a computer simulation? 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Long before progress, understood as streaming, brought us binge-watching, she foresaw people entertaining themselves into inanition with portable technologies that enable “limitless self-absorption,” making people solipsistic and unmannerly. Opinion | The ‘alternative facts’ epidemic goes way beyond politics 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z “Our national problem is that too many of our cultural winds are blowing us in the direction of self-absorption, self-promotion, and making a barrel of money,” he writes. A Lefty Legend Pleads for a Return to a New Deal Ethos 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Still, it says something about Trump’s self-absorption that even existence of the rabid anti-Semitism found among his “alt-right” supporters does not seem to break through to the man and his White House. Why has Trump been so slow to confront anti-Semitism? Several answers suggest themselves, none of them good 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z She also beats readers to potential criticisms, “from self-absorption to self-pity, with stops along the way for excessive candor and unsightly narcissism.” Opinion | ‘This Close to Happy’: The risks of going public about depression 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z It’s hard not to worry about Michael – for all his paranoia, recklessness and self-absorption, he exudes intelligence, warmth and generosity. Interviewing Donald Trump: how to get straight answers from difficult people 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Trump’s grand and vulgar self-absorption is inviting all of us to examine our own selfishness. Despite his lies, Donald Trump is a potent truth-teller | James S Gordon 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z It was a fairly typical statement from Trump, in its profound self-absorption and total lack of interest in the impact of his victory or defeat on the country he proposes to lead. How Donald Trump took residence in our anxious brains 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Save yourself from her cruelty, poor boundaries, and breathtaking self-absorption. Daughter feels sick hearing mom’s version of mistake she made 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Just as important, the traits commonly associated with alpha malehood — violence, self-absorption, controlling behavior — have not been found to correlate strongly with professional and sexual success. The alpha dog that wouldn’t hunt: How Trump’s ludicrous “alpha male” act is destroying him 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z Yet Flaubert’s early disapproval of his heroine’s self-absorption, “icy charm” and vanity is curiously transformed, in the last 100 pages or so, by a softening towards, even forgiveness of, her tawdry and narcissistic escapism. Madame Bovary at 160: a bourgeois sex revolutionary 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z A personality disorder reflects long-standing patterns of behavior that developed early in life and differ significantly from the societal norm. There is no specific point at which self-absorption and grandiosity become pathological. Pundits, take note: Narcissists aren’t “crazy.” They also aren’t likely to change 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z The athletes assembled here at Olympic Aquatics Stadium are forgiven, then, for some level of self-absorption. Simone Manuel on making history: ‘The gold medal wasn’t just for me’ 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z “He was on a total run of complete and utter self-absorption,” Barrett says, adding, “It’s kind of like now.” Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z So, I just keep wondering, for every disenchanted formerly Democratic worker that Trump can attract with his message, how many others will he turn off with his rhetoric, self-absorption, and crassness. Right-Wing Populism Is Prevailing in Left-Wing Strongholds Around the World 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z But he never lets those charms distract him from the dog’s chief purpose, which is to bear witness to a rich and appalling spectrum of human idiocy, misery and self-absorption. Todd Solondz's 'Wiener-Dog' puts humanity in a tragicomic cage 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z At least The Donald has the decency to be upfront about his self-absorption and pride. Ted Cruz’s Bitter End 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z His self-absorption isn’t appealing, even though it’s understandable coming from someone so unfinished and in transition. John Carney rewrites his past as the bouncy pop musical Sing Street 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z She exhibits a Drake-level awareness of how to make good internet content, but none of Drake's signature self-absorption. Oh look, it's the summer of Sophie Turner 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z A more damaging reason that his grief comes across as stilted, though, is that Mahajan, bent on demonstrating Vikas’s self-absorption, quickly scrubs him of fatherly feeling. An Intimate Novel of a Terror Attack 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Its ingredients include neurosis, self-absorption and the certitude that hell really is other people. Garry Shandling, father of all that is cringeworthy 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z He’d blown up the format with “The Larry Sanders Show,” the HBO series about the making of a fictional talk show that drew on his own neurotic self-absorption - and that of Hollywood - for exquisite satire. Garry Shandling dies at 66; fellow comedians laud his genius 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The world was happening, and I was watching, he tells us again and again—but what I was watching was the world, he also insists, acquitting himself of self-absorption. The Peculiar Radiance of Henry James’s Memoirs 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z But once you start reckoning with Anomalisa’s obsession with self-absorption, the novelty of this one-man pity party begins to wear off. In the Latest Issue 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z It is a kind of do-it-yourself defense strategy for those naturally disposed to a certain amount of vanity and self-absorption, experts say. No Comment? Not in Their Playbook 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Mourinho has the paranoia of Othello without the cultural isolation, the arrogance of Macbeth without the guilt, the self-absorption of Hamlet without the gift for self-satire, the madness of King Lear without the nascent humility. Chelsea’s José Mourinho fast becoming much ado about nothing | Marina Hyde 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Music is entertainment, after all, and Ritter fears losing an audience with self-absorption. Josh Ritter stepping out of the confessional 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z The Canadian rejection of a politics of fear and division, currently a staple in the United States, and a sense of self-awareness without a sense of self-absorption, offers a compelling alternative to our contemporary narrative. Trudeau’s Canada, Again 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z There is no American border as perilous as the one separating self-knowledge from self-absorption and, as the second season of Amazon's "Transparent" proves, no one charts it as fearlessly, humanely and thoroughly as Jill Soloway. 'Transparent's' Season 2 has Maura's family in transition, too 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z In announcing the largest tech M&A–and what may be the most complex in structure–the executives brought in a prop that is synonymous with narcissism and self-absorption. Silicon Valley Has Jus Arrived at a Major Turning Point 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z He removes us from the fray of competition and self-absorption, and he opens before us the path of peace. Pope Francis’ Homily During Mass at Madison Square Garden 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z King has three grown children with his previous wives; some of the women from his past have spoken most uncharitably about King in various forums — recurring themes being infidelity, immaturity, self-absorption and deception. Larry King Is Preparing for the Final Cancellation 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Disinterested concern for others, and the rejection of every form of self-centeredness and self-absorption, are essential if we truly wish to care for our brothers and sisters and for the natural environment. Why Pope Francis’s climate message is so hard for some Americans to swallow 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Blogging about your own blog, represents the height of self-absorption. Here Is Hoping That The First Thousand Posts Are The Hardest 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z He suffered the same delusions, hyper self-absorption, and desperate desire to be noticed at any cost. CHARLES HURT: Andreas Lubitz, adrift in the sea of self absorption 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Remember when the people who lived through the Second World War poured scorn on the Baby Boomers and their idealism and self-absorption? Leaders Need To Bridge The Generation Gap 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Help also comes from Streep as a guardian angel and Shia LaBeouf as a mock guest who tests Corden's listening skills with his self-absorption. James Corden plays nice in bow as 'Late Late Show' host 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Or maybe sometimes “empowerment” is just another word for self-absorption. She took a year off from her marriage to sleep with strangers. What could go wrong? 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The movie is, at times, hilarious in its depiction of Hollywood’s out-of-touch self-absorption. ‘Maps to the Stars’ movie review: Is Hollywood really like this? 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Blogging about your own blog represents the height of self-absorption. Final Way Station On The Road To My Forbes Millennium 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Wallace argued that their time had passed, their irrelevance hastened by “radical self-absorption” and compounded by an “uncritical celebration of this self-absorption both in themselves and in their characters.” Richard Ford: Heart of the Country Just as in Winter in America, the tone was mournful, with Gil decrying the growing apathy and self-absorption of young Americans, including young black Americans: “What ever happened to the protest and the rage?” Gil Scott-Heron, the Black Poet, Musician and Author, Didn't Want to Be Compared to Anybody Rivers also ruthlessly sent up – or celebrated – her own self-absorption, avarice and superficiality, and by association, the world she lived in and seemed most luridly to represent. Decorum, decay and impending death – Joan Rivers' standup 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z But Dorsey's astrological profile is marked by self-absorption and difficulty communicating with others, which Williams' likely struggled with: he needs someone with a "positive outlook" to mitigate his own "dark side." The zodiac is the key to unlocking tech's greatest feuds 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z It would follow that a true narcissist wouldn’t see self-absorption as something negative. You only need a one-question test to identify a narcissist To listen to them — I highly recommend HBO’s new “Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words” — is to be reminded, again, of the 37th president’s unrelenting self-absorption. Learning from Richard Nixon Younger men feel they cannot live up to them and some older men feel this degree of self-absorption is weirdly emasculating. The decay of women is obsessively charted. Now men are finding out how it feels 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z In a long article, The Saturday Evening Post dissected Brosnan’s personality, going into detail about his prickliness and self-absorption as a young player and his history in analysis. Jim Brosnan, a Reliever Who Brought New Perspective to Baseball Writing, Dies at 84 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z She mocked her own self-absorption, trepidation and irritation as well as the social quandaries that arose as she, like her cartoon surrogate, plummeted from cancer survivor to terminal patient. Living With Cancer: Chronic, Not Cured 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z I thought about the boring self-absorption of illness during a queasy day after eating a breakfast of smoked salmon leftovers from a party for out-of-town visitors. Well: Living With Cancer: Is It Back? 2013-08-29T16:53:26Z At the same time, some do manifest the pettiness, self-absorption and numbing arrogance that characterize the worst of some other sports. Good Guys on Tour 2013-08-05T04:00:00Z Of course plastic surgery is a waste of money and an expression of privilege and self-absorption that doesn’t provide real, meaningful results, I thought. Plastic Surgery Doesn't Work 2013-08-05T10:50:26Z But if the two geopolitical rivals are to co-exist, as they must, they need to get beyond caricatures and self-absorption and strive to understand each other. Lexington: The China syndrome 2013-06-06T15:01:30Z "There are reasons for this, and most of them involve self-absorption, self-promotion and a distressing absence of self-awareness." Wisden describes Kevin Pietersen as 'arrogant' and 'self-pitying' 2013-04-10T17:38:09Z A pope who calls the West out of the sandbox of self-absorption and into a nobler vision of human possibility could do wonders for the democratic project. What to Look for in a New Pope 2013-03-09T00:05:49Z Dunham has gone for a less mannered and younger version of Sex and the City but the casual self-absorption is cloying and the neurotic sexual frankness strangely unengaging. Rewind TV: Newsnight; Panorama; Girls – review 2012-10-27T23:07:33Z My thesaurus lists vanity, conceit, self-importance and self-absorption. Viewpoint: In defence of narcissism 2012-10-10T01:34:31Z Amstell never misses an opportunity to pre-empt critics with knowing jibes at his own self-absorption. TV highlights 24/05/2012 2012-05-23T19:00:02Z He notes the importance of others in our lives and takes issue with self-absorption, with the “me” generation that focuses on itself to the neglect of others. Personal Health: Forging Stronger Social Connections for a Longer Life 2012-03-26T22:51:16Z The uneasy self-absorption which Sheridan immortalized in the character of Sir Fretful Plagiary in The Critic is apparent enough in this autobiography, but presents itself there in no offensive form. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z I am surprised at your self-absorption, your failure to think of other people. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z She noted how the self-absorption and melancholy of his earlier years passed away in the calm sunshine of his old age. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z The abnormal cold-heartedness and self-absorption latter-day mothers bewail in their girls are the inevitable outcome of their unnatural upbringing. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z They speak of unrelenting self-absorption, even by the standards of a politician. Magazine Preview: On the Ropes With Herman Cain 2011-11-07T19:17:20Z Gnostic theory of the universe originated in ancient India, and brought with it the doctrine of the incarnation of God, of the mortification of the flesh, of spiritual introspection and self-absorption. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z He scorned Alicia's self-absorption, but lacked the strength to go away. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z "I believe that she is still at your town house in Piccadilly," replied Forsyth with a constraint which the other did not notice in his self-absorption. The Duke Decides 2011-09-14T02:00:47.307Z As I soon discovered, self-absorption in a traumatic illness eventually becomes monotonous, and one will naturally turn his mind to encompass other interests. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z She was certainly worth looking at as she sat there, relaxed and with eyes down, an air of self-absorption that was tantalizing. Nobody's Child 2011-06-29T02:00:24.827Z The alternative is to turn them against each other -- a feat the Internet's anonymity and the hackers' self-absorption and competitiveness makes easier. Online brawls may be fractious hackers' downfall 2011-06-22T16:15:29Z It came with something of a shock to the woman's ears—she had forgotten him so completely in the self-absorption of her mood. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z This was no very difficult matter, for the cousins were occupied with each other, and Samuel Parris in his self-absorption would hardly have missed his guest had she remained absent a week. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z The new study of song lyrics certainly won’t end the debate, but it does offer another way to gauge self-absorption: the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Findings: A Generation?s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics 2011-04-25T16:45:21Z Art seems almost to demand self-absorption, self-cultivation, however noble be the ultimate end it sets in view. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z VANCOUVER, British Columbia — At 12 tables, in front of 12 mirrors, a dozen people are fussing intently in raptures of self-absorption, like chorus line members applying makeup in a dressing room. An H.I.V. Strategy Invites Addicts In 2011-02-08T01:48:50Z Only when the stockade-enclosed group of buildings huddled below us, casting long shadows across the flat, did his self-absorption cease. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z This solecism once vividly and practically apparent; then comes the earnest reperusal of the Gospels: the intense self-absorption into that greatest real miracle of all religions, the Sermon on the Mount. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z I became paranoid, distracted, mistrustful, ashamed of my self-absorption, and confused. Dear diary 2010-12-31T15:40:10Z His colour was bad, his eyes vacillated, his mood varied abruptly from violent gaiety to vacant-eyed self-absorption. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z The central requirement for N.P.D. is a special kind of self-absorption: a grandiose sense of self, a serious miscalculation of one’s abilities and potential that is often accompanied by fantasies of greatness. Mind: A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored 2010-11-30T17:40:00Z Teenage countries, they say in Budapest, are prone to teenage complexes: self-absorption, hypersensitivity and the perpetual finding of slights where none was intended. Hungary's passport law is a diversion 2010-06-08T16:10:00Z And, as if to demonstrate the very height of self-absorption – and straight gross-ness – Young claims that Edwards and a pregnant Hunter made a sex tape. 2010-01-27T15:15:00Z Thence onward Mr. Travers Nugent's air of self-absorption left him; turning to those of his acquaintances nearest him he laid himself out to amuse and interest. A Traitor's Wooing The sheer self-absorption of ambition or love appears inconceivable by the minds of any of these poets; and their social philosophy is always based on the system of caste. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" So great was the self-absorption of these singers that we could approach them, daze them with the light of the lantern, and capture any number of them with our long-handled nets before they noticed us. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place Buddha himself is a specimen and model of self-absorption, consummation, perfection, or exaltation rather than a deity, or even a prophet. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies If he had still believed in hell, he would have imagined in those moments of self-absorption that he was in the midst of it. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Or was the whole affair a dream and a delusion of his own conceit and self-absorption? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) The same isolation and self-absorption as bred in them their sensitiveness to the opinions of others, made the Americans also unduly proud of such traits or accomplishments as strangers found to praise in them. The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations In his self-absorption he did not see the girl in the shadow below him trembling and cowering as if every word he uttered were a blow. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life Despite his self-absorption Parker could not help noticing that his wife had never looked more attractive than she did at this moment. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 Americans have their own form of self-absorption, but seem free as yet from the special competitive self-centrement which has been forced on Britons through long centuries by countless continental rivalries and wars. Another Sheaf "Is it nothing to have brought me happiness?" she asked; but his deep-toned reproach, unrehearsed, unstudied and faltering, had broken through her surface emotions and shattered her self-absorption. The Education of Eric Lane The self-absorption of the men, the calm glances of the women humbled our simple souls. A Son of the Middle Border There is a characteristic vein of realism in the subsequent view of the lovers’ self-absorption and short-lived sorrow, and the callousness of Donne. Australian Writers As the days wore on his self-absorption became more and more marked. The Light of the Star A Novel The stiller she stood, apparently wrapped in serious inward contemplation, the stiller he remained, as though the spell of her serene self-absorption consigned him to silence. The Gay Rebellion He could not talk, and yet was sufficiently spirited to prevent me from self-absorption. A Romantic Young Lady Without accrediting Chopin with the self-absorption of Prince Karol, it is easy to see here, in a situation somewhat anomalous, elements of probable discord. Famous Women: George Sand Then it occurred to her that he must have been unlike himself the night before, and that she, in her blind self-absorption, had noticed nothing. Captain Desmond, V.C. Whether the fault was Oliver's or Harry's, whether the father resented the energy and the initiative of his son, or the son resented the indifference and the self-absorption of his father, Virginia had never discovered. Virginia Anglesea, in his self-absorption, took not the slightest interest in this family jubilee and felt not the least curiosity concerning the letter which had caused it. Her Mother's Secret She could drop into one of her moods of self-absorption, or speak as if she were thinking aloud. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest They were already catching up with the throng of London traffic when she shook herself out of her self-absorption by saying, "There must be thousands of Braithwaites in the world." The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel A certain self-absorption, not personal, but human, has marked almost all attempts to conceive the universe as a whole. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays As if some evil spell had been broken, she recalled with pangs of self-reproach various duties she had neglected, in her unwonted self-absorption. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale He has exhibited that self-absorption which it is easy to imagine, easy to find examples of, in poetry, in painting, and in music, but which in criticism had hitherto been hardly conceivable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 I have said that 'peace' is not apathy, that it is not indifference, that it is not self-absorption. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Self-satisfaction, self-absorption, self-sufficiency, have had a sobering shock. White Ashes The old woman watched him for a while, with a self-absorption that was entirely oblivious of the visitors, and then entered the house. The Colonel's Dream She pounced upon the letter and even her brother's eyes, dimmed by life-long self-absorption, could see that her face fell. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale In her painful self-absorption she followed the side street toward Madison Avenue, and struck southward down that tranquil thoroughfare. The Fruit of the Tree It was only after nightfall, far beyond the town of Msila, far beyond the vast plain of the Hodna, that his first dim glimpse of the desert thrilled him out of self-absorption. The Golden Silence And beyond doubt, in that obscure range of diseases which are due to the want of balanced life—to worry, fear, self-absorption and over-strain—the methods of New Thought have a distinct value. Modern Religious Cults and Movements As soon as he had swung himself aboard, he found that he was sitting beside Emmet, and the meeting was not altogether welcome in his present self-absorption. The Mayor of Warwick Yes, and one must answer with a disengaged face, and one must smile with ready lips, and attention must not wander, and self-absorption for a minute cannot be allowed. Daisy in the Field Lord Redesdale was guiltless of the old man's self-absorption or exclusive interest in the past. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters "They hunt all life," the first break in Sssuri's self-absorption came. Star Born Then he sat himself down and looked about him out of his silence and self-absorption, and it was as if he had come into a very workshop of nature. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel The composer lived a solitary life, and was very much at the mercy of his servants on account of his self-absorption and deafness. The Great German Composers But"—with a stab of remorse for my self-absorption—"it's just as bad for you as for me. The Motor Maid She wore a delicately hued French frock and a mauve hat covered with blue convolvuli, but in her extraordinary self-absorption and intentness of thought there was something uncivilised about her. The Halo The self-absorption of youth which Mrs. Comer deprecates, the self-absorption of a crowd which offends Mr. Page, are human, not American. Americans and Others His utter self-absorption must give you a final disillusion. The Upas Tree A Christmas Story for all the Year He passed his life in a sort of trance, an ecstacy of self-absorption; he had fallen in love with his own conception of himself, like a metaphysical Narcissus. Grey Roses There was an ignobleness in it—a self-absorption which was almost dishonour. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality His haste in eating, his self-absorption showed that. Children of the Market Place I lament this self-absorption of Mr. Balfour as much as I lament in his cousin Lord Robert Cecil the lack of the fighting qualities of leadership. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Here one felt the meaning of retreat and self-absorption, the dignity of silence which respected itself; the presence which was not to be touched or seen. Esther Chichester fixed his eyes on Stepton as he said the last words, and seemed to emerge from his former condition of self-absorption. The Dweller on the Threshold Was this mere quaint humour, thought Rivers; but when Grey added, "I should have said, sir, too interested company," he began to wonder at the self-absorption of what was evidently a provincial gentleman. Westways "We're a sickening lot, Hélène—until some charming and genuine person like you comes along to jounce us out of our smiling and imbecile self-absorption." The Common Law Then, for the first time, the crust of his self-absorption seemed to crumble, and he thought with new stabs of pain how she, too, must have suffered. Halcyone Hence, too, among the weak, whimsies, affectation, rude disregard of proprieties, slothful neglect of common duties, surrender to the claims of natural appetite, self-indulgence, self-absorption, and self-idolatry. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II Constant travel made him a shrewd observer of detail, but his self-absorption kept him from sympathy with the broad political aspirations of his generation. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 His lined and drawn face showed worry and self-absorption in the frankest manner. The Roll-Call Then he roused himself and emerged from his self-absorption into a frank crossness which wore away but slowly. Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book The real and dark danger of solitude is the self-absorption that is bound to follow. The Silent Isle The mental pleasure I experienced with you was measured and limited only by my own perversity and morbid self-absorption; the splendour of the passion I divine in you, unawakened, awes me, leaves me in wonder. Ailsa Paige It is careless of God, not malignantly cruel, nor deliberately atheistic, but selfish with a sort of self-absorption which is often, very gracious in its forms and infidel with a mere forgetfulness of God. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little But his actual presence was always stimulating, and even through her self-absorption she was struck by his air of almost defiant prosperity. The Custom of the Country He is an artist in invention; working out his own conceptions in silence and retirement, with the artist's love and self-absorption. Heroes of the Telegraph Holmes sat silently, with his head thrown back and his eyes closed, in an attitude which might seem listless to a stranger, but which I knew betokened the most intense self-absorption. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Selden ran eagerly up the steps and pulled the bell; and even in his state of self-absorption it came as a sharp surprise to him that the door should open so promptly. House of Mirth Behind the grave mask of his face he cursed himself heartily for his self-absorption of the morning, which had led him entirely to lose sight of Mr. Higginson's activities last night. Captivating Mary Carstairs He reached home in misery, dropped into an armchair without even removing his overcoat, and sat there for over an hour, his mind racing the paths of fruitless and wretched self-absorption. The Beautiful and Damned His was the caricature of Hamlet's melancholy self-absorption. Twilight in Italy She looked at him, at the lean figure sunk in the armchair, at the dragged, infirm face, the blurred, owlish eyes, the expression of abject self-pity, of self-absorption. Life and Death of Harriett Frean But he began with a pretence of questioning her about herself, and as she replied, she saw that, for the first time, a faint realization of her plight penetrated the dense surface of his self-absorption. House of Mirth This tremulous self-absorption, rather than any defect of eye or imagination, is the reason of the extraordinary lapses which now and then he makes both in description and in sentiment. Latin Literature She was so obviously interested, in a state of almost laughable self-absorption. The Beautiful and Damned Few religious teachers have ever talked so much of themselves as Paul did, and yet been as free as he is from taint of display or self-absorption. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts We can either consciously war against or lazily acquiesce in our own predominant self-absorption and selfishness. Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI Selden was in the state of impassioned self-absorption that the first surrender to love produces. House of Mirth Women are more apt to theorize their husbands than men in their stupid self-absorption ever realize. A Modern Instance Each policy has its own defects; with one a loss in individual initiative, with the other self-absorption and a lower standard of citizenship or interest in national affairs. Imaginations and Reveries It was a period of joy, of self-absorption, of unsettlement, of longing, of irritation, of exasperation—oh, would it never end! Bertram Cope's Year For all the youthfulness, a quality of indolent magic was about her, a soft haze, as it were, woven of matured experience, of detachment from youth's self-absorption, of the observer's kindly, yet ironic, insight. A Fountain Sealed Her self-absorption had not allowed her to perceive it at first; but now that her consciousness was once more putting forth its eager feelers, she saw that her presence was becoming an embarrassment to him. House of Mirth Resolved firmness is often accompanied with self-absorption which makes it gloomy, and with narrow limitations. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah In this, their first supreme experience of self-consciousness, they had the self-absorption of young brides. In and out of Three Normady Inns In blind self-absorption they have played with life and death, and now "the great open eyes" of the stranger boy will be for ever upon them. Little Eyolf She didn't even give me the courtesy of a bow—whether from self-absorption or from haughtiness I don't know; probably from both. The Deluge I will not call it fatuous, inane, and exasperating vanity or self-absorption; I will put it in the form of a parable. The Path to Rome He had the lissom hands and cheerful self-absorption that bring success. Gone to Earth Hard work had driven her image a little from his mind lately; it returned now to revenge his self-absorption—returned with a song. Hidden Creek In Adeline's self-absorption there was a passive innocence, a candor that disarmed you, but Queenie's was insolent and hostile; it took possession of the scene and challenged every comer. Anne Severn and the Fieldings His face had the quiet concentration, the unobtrusive self-absorption which one sees more strongly marked in English faces than in any others. The Sowers “What is this?” he muttered quite distinctly, with that tone of self-absorption which characterizes the sayings of an unconscious man. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories The placid aspect expresses, therefore, the divine rest; the meek regard expresses the divine benignity: the one is the self-absorption of the total Godhead, the other the eternal emanation of the Filial Godhead. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater He was English all over and all through; hypochondriacal, with a strong tendency to self-involution and self-absorption. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane The best he ever received from her was a slight smile and a cold bow of recognition, and in her haste and self-absorption she did not always give these. Barriers Burned Away Unlike the ordinary young man, whose thoughts are lightly turned to love, Luke was no worse a sailor for his self-absorption. The Grey Lady There was a beautiful and consoling truth in this one little sentence, which my self-absorption was too great, at the time, to suffer me to see. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story Moreover, as we have said, the tendency to self-absorption had been developing rapidly. Opening a Chestnut Burr He was always prone to self-absorption, and the tendency was much increased by his religion. Catharine Furze She was subject at times to curious fits of self-absorption or absence of mind, and while she was under their influence she resembled a somnambulist rather than a sane human being awake. Clara Hopgood Toward Kirk, however, he preserved a peculiar attitude, which only the young man's self-absorption prevented him from noticing. The Ne'er-Do-Well And he had gone on in that self-absorption to the very end. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Now that she had really won a vantage-ground that could be used effectively, all her Christian and kindly purposes were forgotten in the self-absorption that had suddenly mastered her. Opening a Chestnut Burr "Congestion of the right lung," said the doctor, seeing that he was strong enough to bear the information, and feeling the need of rousing him from his monopolising self-absorption. Magnum Bonum Lyrism is the keynote of the work, a passionate lyrism, with a note of self-absorption, suppressed feeling—truly Slavic, this shyness!—and a concentration that is remarkable even for Chopin. Chopin : the Man and His Music That, in his self-absorption, he allowed her to Sending Completed Page, Please Wait... overflowed toward a man who must have been a manly, loving lover. Famous Affinities of History, Vol 1-4, Complete The Romance of Devotion That, in his self-absorption, he allowed her to Sending Completed Page, Please Wait ... overflowed toward a man who must have been a manly, loving lover. Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 The Romance of Devotion The Balkan intellectuals chose narcissistic self-absorption and navel gazing over "other-orientation". After the Rain : how the West lost the East If one takes the later giants, Tennyson had a sense of magnificence, a childlike self-absorption. Escape, and Other Essays Whenever the two are brought into actual juxtaposition, Wordsworth is all pose and self-absorption; Scott all simplicity and disregard of fame. The Upton Letters It was as useless as if one told a man with a toothache that it was mere self-absorption that made him suffer. From a College Window In the restless desire for acquisition,—acquisition of money, of power, or of fame,—there is danger of selfishness, self-absorption, closing the doors of our hearts against the demands of brotherly love, courtesy, and kindness. Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life So she gave her whole mind to this business, with as much earnestness and self-absorption as a merchant gives himself to trade. Cast Adrift Chilvers's self-absorption lent itself to persiflage, and by indulging in that mood Godwin tasted some compensation for the part he had to play. Born in Exile There must have been moments when the self-absorption of her grief chilled her daughter's ardent spirit; but Candida revered in her mother the image of their afflicted country. The Descent of Man and Other Stories She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding. Ethan Frome For all that there was a disappointment on her mind, she felt this joy to-night, and went about her pursuits in happy self-absorption. The Nether World Tranquillity of the background is the condition of self-absorption, or— and this point seems to me worth emphasizing—a closed circle of outer activities. The Psychology of Beauty The ingratitude and the self-absorption of this life for which his own had been destroyed smote him with a fearful suffering. Under Two Flags In the self-absorption in his grief and pain he had not thought of hers, nor considered how with his going her whole life would be changed. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail They are all outgrowths of the self-absorption of the psychical self. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man She knew that that must not happen here; for all her self-absorption, she could not visit with such cruelty the one heart that loved her. The Nether World She might almost personify Britannia," said he, "with her complete self-absorption and general air of comfortable somnolence. His Last Bow It doesn't seem to strike Xenophon that this rigid system of self-absorption in the higher selfhood of the social system might be destructive of individual life. Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus The engrossing claims of society, of which I complained, are necessary for both of you; otherwise you would spend your life in mutual self-absorption. Letters of Two Brides The darkness of unwisdom is, therefore, the self-absorption of the psychical, personal man, to the exclusion of the spiritual man. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man The changeless influence of one monotonous pursuit and one monotonous habit of thought was next expressed in the dull, dreamy self-absorption of his manner and his look while his daughter was speaking to him. Armadale He heard a laugh, and it not only interrupted his words but also destroyed the peace of his self-absorption with the vile pain of a reality intruding upon the beauty of a dream. Tales of Unrest |
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