| 单词 | self-centred |
| 例句 | Henceforth, attachment to ‘my house’ and separation from the neighbours became the psychological hallmark of a much more self-centred creature. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, when speaking with a self-centred toxic relative, she’s looking for a certain type of reaction from you. How to survive your annoying relatives this holiday season 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z “Sort out your insecurities and guilt and self-centred, self-indulgent feelings, and get on with the job of parenting.” ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z As a society, we have long since learned to both expect and absorb moments of unformed self-centred weirdness from Kanye West. The Britain's Got Talent final and five more classic live TV disasters 2013-06-10T09:58:37Z Fallada was an unattractive character: a heavy drinker and a morphine addict, he was self-centred, spendthrift and quarrelsome. Right to write 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The Doctor may often be a doofus, or absent-minded, or grumpy, or display all sorts of other comically undesirable behaviour. But the modern Doctor is not the irascible, self-centred William Hartnell of those early episodes. Review: 'Doctor Who', Episode 802, 'Inside The Dalek' -- Peter Capaldi (Almost) Takes Charge 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z It is those who are totally selfish and self-centred who are most deeply in denial about death. Rereading: Memento Mori by Muriel Spark 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z You could argue that the principles the Tea Party stand for suggest a bleak, brutal, self-centred view of humanity, but it's not as if the band's oeuvre is overflowing with goodwill towards their fellow man. Alexis Petridis on the Velvet Underground's Mo Tucker 2010-10-06T20:45:00Z His art was not, as some claimed, self-centred, egotistical attention-seeking; it was courageous, honest, vibrant, radical and profoundly spiritual. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z Running Wilde was a sharply written, intricately plotted sitcom that starred Arnett as the self-centred heir to a fortune. Arrested Development: meet the people who brought the Bluths back to life 2013-05-25T05:00:00Z All that is true and that strikes David because he’s being self-centred about Nic’s addiction in lots of ways, looking to himself for what went wrong. Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet on drugs, disillusionment and playing father and son 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z “Take it from the child of an anxious, self-centred, narcissistic, psychopathic mother and a selfish, abusive and ultimately absent father,” another contributor posted. ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z He’s brash and obnoxious and so self-centred that he leads Larry into a number of bad decisions. 'Raw, sad, hilarious': how Rip Torn lit up TV with The Larry Sanders Show 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z But what persuaded me, in the end, was realising how self-centred that fear usually is. Why it’s OK to send restaurant food back 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z They were “deplorable because they are heartless, they are completely self-centred, they don’t care about what happens to other creatures”. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z This requires only that you’re a self-centred jerk who thinks the rules don’t apply to you – and you’ll be rewarded, every time, by the discovery that indeed they don’t. Is it ever OK to queue-jump? 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z He was serious enough to write and perform an unsparing portrait of his younger self as a callow, self-centred nerd completely unprepared to deal with a life or death situation. Kumail Nanjiani: 'For a long time, there was one famous American brown actor' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Warham is mature and steady, Swan a little flighty and self-centred. 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson – review 2012-06-14T07:00:03Z So I was worried I didn’t ask enough questions and seemed too self-centred. Blind date: 'I was tipsy and slurring' 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Little Women by Louisa May Alcott And so begins Little Women and the tale of the March sisters: pretty, vain Meg, tomboy Jo, self-centred Amy and saintly little Beth. Season's reading: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 2010-12-22T12:40:55Z In his 1986 limited series, Miller brilliantly contrasts a shallow and self-centred, increasingly wrinkly and jaded caped crusader with a Kal-El who remains youthful, noble and good-hearted – yet as boring as dry toast for dinner. Man of Steel 2 will make a villain of Superman or Batman 2013-07-22T10:32:23Z There may be a few non-racists in our multicultural capital, but otherwise we're a nation of foul-mouthed, self-centred, opportunistic thieves and scoundrels. Eye Spy – TV review 2013-06-28T06:00:03Z Which is a self-centred way of looking at things. Life in our transgender family 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Pricking the heroic egos of Lancelot and Galahad would suit Edmund’s sardonic skillset, and operating in an era of magic would stretch his self-centred ingenuity to the limit. A cunning plan: if Blackadder returns, where and when should it be set? 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?I am self-centred. Q&A: Danny DeVito 2013-01-26T08:00:00Z I was racked with guilt and felt self-centred and mean. The joy and relief of saying no: how I learned to stop worrying and turn people down 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z One is blond, honest, self-sacrificing, the other dark-haired, manipulative, passive-aggressive and self-centred, and the story concerns the blonde seeing the brunette through an expensive, dangerous, illegal late abortion. Beyond the Hills – review 2013-03-17T00:05:37Z He seemed extremely self-centred and to be honest his life didn't seem that bad. The Hit by Melvin Burgess - review 2013-06-07T08:00:00Z He slowly wins our sympathy for what initially most people will think an empty, self-centred character, not through an easy display of charm but by engaging our empathy and understanding. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z It was a self-centred instinct of my own, that this is worth doing for me. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z Their sense of dreaminess and the open road is in stark contrast to the era of hard, self-centred glamour that prevailed, particularly in fashion and portrait photography, in the last decade. Ryan McGinley: nude in New York 2010-04-13T20:30:00Z French critics have long deplored the fact that the country's films – even the highbrow ones – are nationalistic and self-centred. Cyrille Falisse on film in France 2011-03-23T22:16:01Z Like any self-centred American adolescent, but unlike the robotic Chinese, Dre's in touch with his feelings. The Karate Kid betrays America's fear of China 2010-08-02T08:00:00Z It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process. America's funniest man 2010-08-21T23:08:00Z "Australia had him on a long-term deal, but this whole project has been selfish and self-centred," former England wing Monye told BBC Rugby Union Daily. Monye says Jones' Australia resignation 'stinks' 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z He urged them not to live "double lives" or turn into Church bureaucrats seeking promotions with perks and privileges, and not yearn for a past when the Church was more self-centred. Recovered pope washes feet of young inmates on Holy Thursday 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z In court, she was described as self-centred, abusive and violent. My baby was taken by social services - then murdered 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z Narcissism is a self-centred personality trait, characterised by feelings of privilege and predominance over others. "Impulsive psychopaths like crypto": "dark" personality traits increase Bitcoin enthusiasm 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z When Kohli was an over-aggressive, self-centred teenager, the popular feeling was that unless he mellowed, he had no chance of playing for India. Virat Kohli: India's aggressive and spirited captain transformed cricket 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The image of the maharajahs as "self-centred fools", then, not only misses the more interesting story but actively conceals it, as I discovered while researching my new book. India's misunderstood maharajahs 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z He said as well as coronavirus, there was "the virus of self-centred, heedless egocentrism" and urged people to adopt "thoughtfulness for all". Coronavirus: Bishop Noel Treanor appeals to protect health workers 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z From a self-centred point of view, the practical cost of being wrong is close to zero. Facts v feelings: how to stop our emotions misleading us 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z "I think it's an incredibly self-centred opinion if you're refusing to wear a mask because you are mildly inconvenienced while buying a loaf of bread," he tells the BBC. ‘If it saves a life, wearing a mask is worth it’ 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z This is self-centred of me, but even when Wuhan went into lockdown, I thought of it as a problem exclusive to China. Planet virus: seven novelists from around the world on living with the pandemic 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z She claimed that since then, "with each week that passes Harry and Meghan’s behaviour is becoming increasingly self-centred." Meghan Markle, Prince Harry acting like 'defiant teenagers,' author claims 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z “I’m a very self-centred songwriter. I always have been. It’s the personal stuff I like, for better or for worse.” ‘I was a bad influence on the Beatles': James Taylor on Lennon, love and recovery 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Rob Hall, prosecuting, said such behaviour confirmed his "bullying, controlling, self-centred nature". Pilot's mental torment drove partner to kill son 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z “Rightly, or wrongly, there is a perceived air of arrogance about Andrew, and he is described by various people as boorish and very self-centred,” said Joe Little, managing editor of Majesty Magazine. 'Boorish and self-centred': little love for Prince Andrew over Epstein links 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z It appears so self-centred, fixated on its own problems that it is currently out of the global debate – it is losing relevance quite quickly. 'Something resembling hell': how does the rest of the world view the UK? 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z The latest villains in this self-centred drama are the country’s American and European allies who, as he tells it, seek to subjugate both him and the proudly rising Turkish nation. Erdoğan is on a lonely path to ruin. Will he take Turkey down with him? | Simon Tisdall 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z He labelled Mr Maclean as "undoubtedly demanding, self-centred, domineering and controlling", but added there had been "an element of exaggeration" of Glanfield-Collis' account of his conduct. Woman who killed 'controlling' partner jailed 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z “It is a bit like asking what did the Romans do for us, it is essentially a self-centred question,” he says. Who was Leonardo da Vinci and what can we learn from him? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Some of the jargon is only intelligible to “experts” but most objectives are transparently, sometimes touchingly, self-centred and blatantly focused on “take”, explicitly rejecting any “give”. A swashbuckling global Britain free to do its own trade deals? It’s a mirage | Mogens Peter Carl 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z In the weeks that followed, Wilson-Raybould became the target of a smear campaign: administration staff and party loyalists told the Canadian Press she was “difficult” to work with, self-centred and prone to anger. The pioneering ex-minister at the centre of a Canadian scandal 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z As a result, Podemos’s broad coalition looks increasingly skinny and self-centred. Podemos was the dazzling new force in Spanish politics. What went wrong? | Giles Tremlett 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Ripka’s George is pitch-perfect as he veers from self-centred zeal for technical innovations to callous dismissal of the women’s reports of pain. A medical hell recounted by its victims 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z In comments that invited a contrast with the chaotic incoming administration following the 2016 election and implicitly referenced Trump’s self-centred personality, Obama praised the outgoing George W Bush administration’s behaviour after the 2008 vote. Barack Obama lambasts Trump over legal troubles 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z It's a very selfish process - selfish in the self-centred process - you listen a lot more to what you need. To have loved and lost 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z He embodies all the negative stereotypes of the millennial generation: he is self-centred, financially insecure and entitled. Don’t laugh at Michael Rotondo – he's the perfect millennial scapegoat | Arwa Mahdawi 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z There, in a sentence, is the authentic Roth: neurotic, obsessive, disdainful and self-centred. ‘I did the best I could with what I had…’: writers on the Philip Roth they knew 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z Prosecutor Alan Gardner told the jury Browning was a spurned admirer, someone "deeply self-centred, selfish, a man with a vindictive streak". 'Rejected' man guilty of boss murder 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z According to a swath of recent studies, the world is full of terribly self-centred people, and I’m afraid you’re probably among them. If you believe studies into selfishness, we are all terrible people | Arwa Mahdawi 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Seattle’s Sound Transit agency, meanwhile has used a sprawling self-centred purple octopus to plead for public transport courtesy. Madrid tackles 'el manspreading' on public transport with new signs 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z We consciously try to be less self-centred and to support each other. No researcher is too junior to fix science 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z "It isn't only we vain & self-centred humans who like to gaze upon ourselves," wrote another. 'Narcissistic' bird wins internet fans in Australia - BBC News 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s a sad little bunch, each an iteration of the insoluble problems of that time: race, inequality, gutless conformity and the apathy of a silent and self-centred majority. Carson McCullers at 100: a century of American suffering 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z It’s not a feminist conspiracy, it’s just science, I’m afraid: men are more self-centred. If you believe studies into selfishness, we are all terrible people | Arwa Mahdawi 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z On the personal level too, the meeting will bring together two combustible personalities – thin-skinned, self-centred and sharing the same obsessive desire to control or denigrate the media. Volatile, thin-skinned, self-centered: Trump to meet his match in Netanyahu 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The chorus of liberal outrage that greets Trump daily not only falls on deaf ears among his supporters but appears to harden their view that he is taking on a privileged, self-centred elite. ‘I love Trump. He’s doing what he said.’ President’s supporters keep the faith 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z The judge told him he would die in prison, adding: "I have no doubt that you are a self-centred and domineering individual who wants his own way. You are both calculating and devious." Becky Godden murder: Christopher Halliwell given whole-life sentence - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z But the Republican National Convention that nominated Mr Romney four years ago resembled a self-centred gathering of business-owners and entrepreneurs, congratulating themselves on their own success. Normalising narcissism 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z On a radio phone-in he was given a humiliating dressing down by Paul Bigley, brother of Ken, who told him: "You're a self-centred, pompous twit; even your body language on TV is wrong." Boris Johnson: His rise, fall, rise, fall and rise - BBC News 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z But Saga's communications director Paul Green said: "The notion that older voters are selfish is just plain wrong. In fact, the grey vote is more community spirited and less self-centred than younger voters." EU referendum: Jeremy Corbyn targets young voters - BBC News 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z About 20 years later, the Woman’s Bible commentary put together by suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton called Vashti “a sublime representative of self-centred womanhood” who rises “to the heights of self-consciousness and of self-respect.” The Feminist History of the Jewish Holiday of Purim 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Both, equally, can be self-centred, frequently unpleasant and guilty of control freakery. United should cut Louis van Gaal loose while José Mourinho is still free | Daniel Taylor 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Mommy was a very remote and distant person whose own unhappy, damaged childhood had made her self-centred and inward-looking. Boys in the Trees: A Memoir, by Carly Simon – digested read 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z I would have been naive and stupid and self-centred to think: ‘Oh man, the president’s gonna invite me to the White House!’ Chuck D: 'We battled the mainstream we fought every goddamn minute' 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Not because you want to be secretive about it, but because it’s impolite and self-centred to put it on other people. Helen Mirren: ‘Do I feel beautiful? I hate that word’ 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z She’s a piece of work: socially inept, utterly self-centred and not quite on the same planet as the rest of us. Top 10 uncompromising women in fiction 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z When people become self-centred and self-enclosed, their greed increases. The Earth, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And both the past and the future were capable of waking me at 03:00 for self-centred fear or excitement - hence my exhaustion. A Point of View: How time passes differently as you get older - BBC News 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Despite his modesty, the stereotype of football's self-centred millionaires persists, so much so that when Birmingham City's Guy Moussi recently decided to donate two months' wages to charity it was headline news. Citizen Naismith: A disowned Ranger 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The bridge groans under their collective egotism, their self-centred marking. Should love be symbolised by a lock? 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z I don’t miss the small-minded, self-centred way of thinking. 'I am a Scot, but I am also a Briton': Scottish expats on the independence referendum abroad 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z That's why racing drivers are hired - they are self-centred, very determined people who will push every boundary to the limit to win. 'Mercedes must lay down the law' 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z And – contrary to what the Mail asserts – Baghdadi and his movement are routinely condemned as "evil, corrupt, self-centred and unIslamic" by leading British Muslims, though not loudly enough to generate media headlines very often. Will Isis still be a threat in a year's time? I doubt it 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z What does freedom from attachment and desire mean in this self-centred world? Mindfulness is all about self-help. It does nothing to change an unjust world 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Warsi may be deeply disliked by some senior Tories who see her as vain, unprincipled, self-centred and motivated by animus at her demotion from the party chairmanship in 2012. Lady Warsi's symbolic status may prove crucial loss for Tories 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z A divide is growing between the people who wholeheartedly embrace a radically new, radically self-centred vision of human life, and the people who do not. The tech utopia nobody wants: why the world nerds are creating will be awful 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z But they also leave the door open to misuse of the technology - not for the benefit of our planet or humanity but for self-centred interests ranging from corporate espionage to greater control over rebel insurgency. Mini-satellites watch life on Earth 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But what about Little Emperor Syndrome - the notion that China's children would grow up spoiled and self-centred. A side-effect of China's one-child policy 2013-11-22T00:48:24Z Nimby - an acronym of "not in my backyard" - is a derogatory term used to describe people who oppose development for self-centred reasons. Fracking opponents consider election bid 2013-08-10T01:10:27Z "The president is not listening because he belongs to the self-centred Muslim Brotherhood, which is willing to kill all Egyptians and sabotage the homeland to stay in power at any price." Egypt deeply polarised as Morsi marks first year 2013-06-27T10:44:06Z Aziz, who left for Sunderland last summer, tweeted: "Arrogant, vain, self-centred no manners ignorant just some of the daily traits really made going into work a daily grind!! #karma". Mancini 'arrogant and vain' says former Man City kit man 2013-05-14T09:56:04Z As her book details, she came from a privileged background of boarding school and gymkhanas, and were she a more obvious product of those trappings, she could easily come across as removed or self-centred. Clare Balding: 'It's unfashionable to be as shamelessly enthusiastic as I am' 2012-12-08T20:00:00Z No wife, however loyal, could feel any peace or comfort with such a self-centred, insensible, shallow-pated companion. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z It is rather the stuff of which both mind and nature are made, neither extended as in the natural world, nor self-centred as in mind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Her poise had always been remarkable, the result in part of a self-centred life and a will driven relentlessly in a narrow groove. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z He felt already that he was a better man for this great passion that had come into his life—less selfish, less self-centred, less bitter and infinitely more pitiful. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z At any rate, abandoning that as impossible, he would like to appear self-centred and at ease. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z The Epicurean lives in the little world of himself, and a few equally self-centred companions. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z But just in proportion as it is so developed in opposition to and recognition of other equally self-centred selves, it has passed beyond the narrower characteristic of Consciousness proper. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Women gathered around him and looked trustingly toward the erect, self-centred, bronzed soldier. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Calm, and self-centred, and complete, the æsthetic critic contemplates life, and no arrow drawn at a venture can pierce between the joints of his harness.” The Trial of Oscar Wilde From the Shorthand Reports 2012-02-19T03:00:17.513Z More sensitive and less self-centred natures do not find the way so easy. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Borrow was at times a very irritable man, he was a very self-centred one. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z For truth here has, as its peculiar mode and immanent form, the self-centred pure notion, ego, the certitude of self as infinite universality. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Do you know, Christie," said her father, "I sometimes fancy when I hear that new parson fellow talk about his artistic feelings, and so on, that he's just a trifle selfish, or at least self-centred. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z She knew that the shortest way to the heart of that self-centred creature Man is to let him talk about himself, and his work, and his ambitions. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z He was becoming altogether too self-centred, as he had told himself the night before. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z No; her thoughts are self-centred; she never looks upward. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z The fact that these particulars, though as a mode of mind they are distinguished from the self-identity of our self-centred being, are yet simply contained in its simplicity, is what we call sensibility. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z "So you shall, Ida," I answered; "and you shall teach me, too, how to be a little less narrow and self-centred than we Oxford bachelors are apt to become in our foolish isolation." Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z A less vain and self-centred man might have felt a little suspicious of such sudden and oppressive adulation, but he did not. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z You will understand that I, being a conceited and self-centred author, the matter of my play bulges out until it assumes for me what you will probably, and correctly, consider exaggerated proportions. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z Lady Sims, in Sir James M. Barrie's The Twelve-Pound Look, is a woman who really is pathetic in her longing for some human independence in the presence of her self-centred husband, "Sir" Harry Sims. Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z Perhaps a religion for self-centred people remains to be invented. Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:36.223Z Women of this order are the Cleopatras, Agrippinas, Messalinas and the Catharines of Russia; the de Pompadours, de Staëls, Georges Sands, and the innumerable other self-centred, unconscionable female-egotists whose extravagances shriek discordant down the ages. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z It told him that the impression was a false one, that Jessie, so far from being callous and self-centred, as was the suggestion conveyed by Helena's words, was of faithful and golden heart. Across the Stream 2011-11-05T02:00:11.673Z The work was characteristic of his self-centred isolation: ultra-romantic at a time when Romanticism was already an outworn fashion, remote alike from the spirit of the age and from that of Goethe. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z And all the while about these two absorbed, self-centred women surged the turbulent life of the little town. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z She was no longer a pale, useless, discontented girl, cooped up in an airless London house with two self-centred, elder women whom she secretly despised for immolating their sister. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z A wide gulf, truly, separates from their fathers these modern self-centred, self-opinionated young sportswomen and over-academised girls. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z One must be self-centred to be vain, as he was not. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Winn is a proud, sensitive, self-centred sort of fellow, whom wealth perhaps might have made popular. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z Under the influence of precocious sexual irritation he becomes hypochondriacal and self-centred, and often suffers, not merely from fanciful fears and fanciful pains, but from actual neuralgia, which is sometimes severe. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z Before you came she was misunderstood always, she was melancholy and brooding and self-centred, and you have put the only brightness in her life that has ever been there. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z And so on, and so on goes the one-sided conversation of the two self-centred groups! 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Compared with her direct and decent conceptions of life, her quiet acceptance of duty, and sense of responsibility, his ideas appeared carnal and extraordinarily limited and self-centred. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z "If you were really trying to make the fact fit the theory—which you are not—it would be a sheer, self-centred eye-shutting to all the greater things that may be involved," she continued. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z The Franco-Belgian tradition is less self-centred, less macho and more playful. The Smurfs in the US: Something borrowed, something blue 2011-08-23T13:39:31Z The small player is too self-centred, if I may so say. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z The carpenter had always been a self-centred individual, desirous of his own comfort, and rather miserly. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z The land is dumb, self-centred; it has neither message nor care for its children. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z For Josh was in a savage and self-centred mood. A Child of the Jago 2011-08-05T02:00:52.533Z The Poet’s self-centred seclusion was avenged by the furies of an irresistible passion pursuing him to speedy ruin. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z As he sits at the table and covers a sheet of paper with line-scribble he is wholly self-centred, "amusing himself," as we say, and caring nothing about the production of a thing of æsthetic value. Children's Ways 2011-08-11T02:00:16.473Z The fact that everyone's class system is centred exactly on themselves tends to make people, naturally, very self-centred. Eurozone's citizens split amid battle to stop debt crisis spreading 2011-07-16T23:07:45Z It is the revelation of a soul all self-centred. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Their philosophy of life is that of a schoolgirl, their knowledge of the world almost nil, their conclusions confused by the haste and passion of a mind self-centred and working in the narrowest orbit. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Without doubt, I think, he is referring from memory to the Preface to Alastor and the phrase ‘self-centred seclusion.’ Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z He had a good fortune, and was a harmless, but self-centred, old fellow. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z In a play that was largely a study of a self-indulgent, self-centred youth, to the annoyance of all he is late at the family celebration of his cousin’s birthday. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z "Nimby" - an acronym of "Not In My Backyard" - is a derogatory term used to describe people who oppose development for self-centred reasons. Fast rail critics 'rich nimbys' 2011-06-28T11:49:45Z Each figure is, however, distinct, self-centred, and enfolded in its own grief. Great Masters in Painting: Perugino 2011-06-27T02:00:59.487Z Shelley is distinguishing 243 the self-centred seclusion of his poet from that of common selfish souls: Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z He was too busy, too self-centred and ultra-modern to desire any warmer relation. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z For though one come from the dead, the soul self-centred and confident in its own wisdom will not believe. A Reconstructed Marriage 2011-06-23T02:00:23.143Z He is so absolutely self-centred—every thought directed inward—that he never tries to make the individual like him, yet he craves intensely the world's esteem. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z The Russians understood secret diplomacy well; but, either because they despised the common people too much or because the writers on Russia were too self-centred, nothing was done to meet this propaganda effectively. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z To Nora, indeed, with her own simple directness, staunch loyalty, and passionate impulse to help and sympathize, it was almost impossible to understand the workings of a self-centred, coldly fastidious nature like Mr. Chillingworth's. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z In the cloistered nun we see only the first, and that tends to become self-centred and morbid; it is redeemed from this vice by an active life of self-sacrifice. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z In spite of local differences and the self-centred character of the numerous independent principalities, there was, nevertheless, a family likeness between them all. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z The doctor had convinced him of the seriousness of Gareth's condition, and I was glad to find him less self-centred and more concerned for her. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z The causes are varied but self-centred around the vital interests of Koch Industries such as oil, energy, chemicals and financial products. The Koch brothers: all the influence money can buy 2011-04-08T15:30:00Z Mrs. Desmond was rather a self-centred person, and she was quite unconscious that her remarks were not approving themselves to her listener. Unlucky A Fragment of a Girl's Life 2011-03-24T02:00:14.360Z Men and women and boys and girls were on their way to work, with hurried clattering steps, some munching thick pieces of bread as they went, all self-centred, apparently morose and not quite awake. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z If this sounds a trifle self-centred in its criticism, not so was the poem which, in memory of her, he wrote as a fitting epitaph from the poet she had loved. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z My life since then has been selfish and self-centred. Betty Grier 2011-02-24T03:01:04.507Z The self-centred life of a colony of quiet people was making its monotonous way from free lighting to lights out. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z You fancy that you are not self-centred because you are too shy, yes, and too vain to probe the hidden recesses of your heart. Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z People who think honeymoons have to be self-centred are missing the point, she says. Wedded bliss 2011-02-09T01:13:46Z If its ideal is humanitarian, why must it countenance the national idea, self-centred and intolerant as the idea too often becomes? The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z He sas he hopes to see a move towards "social business" ideas and away from individual, or self-centred, economic aims. Davos 2011: Live coverage day 4 2011-01-29T08:14:44Z He has sometimes been pictured as the self-centred bachelor, occupied only with his art. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z I didn’t think she cared enough—” “That’s because young people are so self-centred and blind, David;—especially young men who are apt to be a trifle masterly, in some ways.” Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z All art too acutely self-centred comes to this sort of thing. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z It was infatuation, and was bound to pass when he found out what a vain, self-centred girl his idol was; whereas Z�lie Marks had been loyally his chum for years. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z And I suppose a family self-centred is almost as bad as an individual self-centred. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z "There is loads of stuff the clubs do that is not selfish, greedy or self-centred," he said. Richard Scudamore calls for FA overhaul in wake of Ian Watmore's exit 2010-03-26T21:17:00Z To suggest that divorce, a solution to the problem of irrevocably failed marriages, should be invoked to end marriages that are merely dull is irresponsible and self-centred. 2010-01-11T11:18:00Z But the Stoic doctor could never acquiesce in a mere negative ideal, the self-centred independence of the individual soul. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The dictatorial Mr. Fanning's expansive face, together with his self-centred spirits, fell at the invitation. A Poached Peerage We never think how our self-centred ambition is hurting someone else, overlooking something worlds better than the trifling thing our fancy has idealized. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z The complexity of emotions in his heart was devastating beyond anything he had ever known in his thirty-five years of satisfied, self-centred life. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath Perhaps his chief fault had been too self-centred a pursuit of Sylvia. The Guarded Heights There is but one power known among men that can turn the self-willed and self-centred life into the self-sacrificing and the God-centred life, and that power is the spirit of the Carpenter of Nazareth. Victory out of Ruin All artifice, all self-centred dreaminess, all the littler charms, dropped from her. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece At that grave dinner, for a change, With just as flattering a charm, She took the formal Tutor's arm, With sparkling eyes, that scattered light On the dark Don's self-centred night. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 Tony, less self-centred, less rigidly contained, had penetrated her by an understanding sympathy greater than his own. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath It was beyond belief that their self-centred haste should let creep in no knowledge of the destination and the purpose of this companion, even more eager than themselves, intimately crushed among them. The Guarded Heights And that has always been most difficult—to transmute the self-centred into the God-centred and all it means. Victory out of Ruin He becomes self-centred, and makes the universe revolve round him. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy But though not an emotional man, his was not a hard nature so much as a reserved, self-centred nature, rarely p. 93expressing itself in outward show of feeling. The Vagabond in Literature The self-centred, confident man in him that deemed itself indispensable must crumble. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath It was quite impossible, to the fine generosity of a nature such as that of Christobel Charteris, really to understand the mean, self-centred, unscrupulous dishonesty of an action such as this of Miss Ann's. Through the Postern Gate A Romance in Seven Days Then the mask would slip, and she would see the evil leer of revenge, or hatred, or personal malice, or self-centred wrath—not once the kind face of a thought worthy of her. Shadows of Flames A Novel The glorious, self-centred selfishness of genius was in him. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel Passion he had of a kind, but it was the rapt, self-centred passion of the mystic. The Vagabond in Literature It is a self-centred city, full of pride. The Holy Earth The gutter Press has let itself go over me for weeks as the mysterious, self-centred Husband; the man who sacrificed his wife! Helena Brett's Career You, at any rate, are self-centred and self-possessed. Windyridge My attention was utterly self-centred, riveted upon my own condition. Bye-Ways Lermontov was, like Pushkin, essentially a lyric poet, still more subjective, and profoundly self-centred. An Outline of Russian Literature I believe that if all the sad, lonely, self-centred women in the land could know what joy dwells in my heart to-night, within twenty-four hours orphan asylums would be depopulated, city streets waifless. Mothering on Perilous Such men have been and will be—self-centred authors, unscrupulous publishers, vulgar-minded artists—nor does a paragon make the best food for fiction: but there are also Others. Helena Brett's Career Good men are unselfish, and bachelors are brazenly self-centred, and usually unbearably conceited. Windyridge Patient and self-centred, with all his Aragonese grandfather’s subtlety, he possessed infinitely greater boldness and width of view. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History We possess an unique treasure in that ancient literature which grew up from a cultured people, self-centred, independent of Roman discipline. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde In all his broad parish he had no penitent so long-winded, exhaustive, and self-centred as little Tita. Anne I thought him a charming man; possibly rather self-centred, but clever, cultured, and with, I am sure, good motives. Helena Brett's Career The mass of men, conventional, easily satisfied, self-centred, accomplish nothing, redeem and regenerate nothing. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition Men like James Carlyle were essentially stern, self-centred, unemotional. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series But"—he exploded with righteous wrath, self-centred—"only a scoundrel would force his attentions upon a woman, in such circumstances! The Destroying Angel But Miss Thornton’s mind was somewhat self-centred, and as she heard his story her pretty face showed nothing but its prettiness. The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients It had been her; now it was Helena; there always would be, must be, a victim to his tragical self-centred brooding. Helena Brett's Career Wholly self-centred, her husband's smiling attention meant approbation; preoccupation meant disapproval or resentment. The Vision of Elijah Berl So self-centred was he, so impregnable to outward influences, that all his years of Edinburgh and London life could not impair, even in the slightest degree, that. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series Without warning she would explode, scream, scratch, bite, and kick, until she got what she wanted, when she would subside as suddenly into a self-centred silence broken by hiccoughs and chokes. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Perhaps they had been too secure and too self-centred at Klassan. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon I suppose you have to be self-centred to succeed; and then somehow, they can't get used to the little things. Helena Brett's Career He was entirely self-centred, and his own circle of interests and tastes was not wide. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) While she was self-centred in her beauty and attractiveness, he was self-centred in his intellect and aspirations. Life of John Keats If his imagination be more susceptible than his emotions, his intellect more active than his conscience, the isolation in which he stands and the superior insight it affords him may render him cold, calculating, self-centred. Studies in Contemporary Biography He had interviewed men and foremen impartially, and the amount of information which these simple sons of toil instilled into his receptive mind would have aroused the suspicions of a less self-centred man. The Blue Goose Too much self-centred and self-seeking, they make little or no sacrifice for others. The Defects of the Negro Church The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 10 The life of the household in a Connecticut village in the middle of the eighteenth century was very self-centred. Noah Webster American Men of Letters His father, Colonel Campo, had been a self-centred sensitive man, of such keen susceptibility that he was quite a martyr to it the last years of his life. The Grandee He liked to surround himself with mystery, to pose as remote, majestic, self-centred, to appear above the need of a confidant. Studies in Contemporary Biography “I didn’t think,” he said slowly, stopping before her—“I couldn’t have thought you could be so heartless, so self-centred ...!” The Bandbox Like a distant noise and bustle sound the world's doings amid the undisturbed content of self-centred youth and beauty. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Is ever a November so self-centred as to refuse to help the Old Year to a memory of the gleams of April, and the nightingale's first song about the laggard ash-buds? When Ghost Meets Ghost It is a commonplace that the entirely self-centred man—the Robinson Crusoe of a desert island of egoism—is unhappy. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' You are one of the self-centred, sedentary loiterers by the way. The Moving Finger All are equally self-centred and true to type as parasites; though one brood is better dressed than another, and has a more formidable appetite. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography Sam was a tall, loosely built, rather slouching fellow; a typical young Australian of a certain class; not unintelligent, rather lazy, given to drawl in his speech, and extremely self-centred. Finn The Wolfhound The conflict of the Apostle was not self-centred. The Prayers of St. Paul A294 constant interest, therefore, in the joys and sorrows of our neighbours is as essential as quiet, self-centred rumination. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The individual becomes less self-centred, more alive to, and more responsive to the claims of others; he displays tendencies towards what the world calls self-sacrifice, but which mean, in the truest sense, self-realisation. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development I was in such a stupid frame of mind when I came here—so self-centred and so dissatisfied—and now, everything is changed for me. East of the Shadows Was it prepared to meet the necessities of the hour, or was it to continue in the same self-centred policy that had served well enough in the past? A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 His was no self-centred life, for he was ever keenly alert to appreciate the marks of grace in others. The Prayers of St. Paul In saying, therefore, “Before Abraham was—I AM,” Jesus announced himself to be the eternal, self-centred, supreme being, Almighty God. Christ, Christianity and the Bible Connected with these, and flowing from them, is a more or less rapid development of what are called the altruistic feelings, the individual becoming less self-centred and more concerned for the well-being of others. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development We never noticed that she was utterly self-centred, because we, with all the world, were ready to satisfy her lightest wish. East of the Shadows To question the Deity was to rank himself at once with a sect he had always despised as self-centred fools, and pitied them as purblind creatures who were in some degree mentally deficient. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country Instead of unselfish, how self-centred, instead of sympathetic, how contracted! The Prayers of St. Paul He did not understand how people could live in a self-centred spiritual world that shut out the larger part of creation. Dreamers of the Ghetto My love," he said, "I'm a self-centred, arrogant beast, and I don't like to think about it. Love and Lucy Love is self-centred; other things it forgets very quickly. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Madame Patel was nearing forty and her November hair had begun to whiten, but in her long gray eyes was invincible youth, poised, self-centred youth. Melomaniacs I was hurt: but fancied, being stupid and self-centred, that ’twas a pang of isolation to which I must grow used. The Cruise of the Shining Light No doubt even the World-War has been precipitated by the sudden inrush of these unprecedented forces, and the realization of their trend by the self-centred leaders of civilization. Is civilization a disease? She is the most self-centred, the most absolutely selfish nation on earth. The Traitors There was nothing morbid or self-centred in the girl's attitude. A Bride of the Plains Without this Hugh felt that his outlook would have become narrow and self-centred. Beside Still Waters He invited her judgments and immediately forgot to listen, so morbidly self-centred was he. The Light of the Star A Novel You are so cold, so self-centred that the feelings and tumults which trouble most of us appear as weaknesses to you. A Modern Mercenary His mind and his life are purely sordid, grossly and blindly self-centred—wholly material. The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit To a writer who has looked long at a man, he may shrink to a cringing piece of weakness, or he may grow to a strong, self-centred power whose presence alone inspires serenest trust. English: Composition and Literature And this though George Sand was really almost as self-centred as Hugo, though in another way. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century This cannot be till we have ceased to be self-centred, and have become Christ-centred. A Christmas Faggot Any man of feeling who hears a great symphony ceases to be self-centred with the first movement; he goes out of himself, and rides upon waves of sound, exalted by this majesty of collective effort. Apologia Diffidentis She found him very earnest, very self-centred in his worship of efficiency. The Rough Road He is the very antithesis of a self-centred man. Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work Hobbes, however, was a timid and very much self-centred person, always fancying that plots were being laid against him. A History of Elizabethan Literature Besides, they did not care to undertake such a heavy responsibility, and pursued most of the time a narrowly self-centred policy. Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day He was just Smith—self-centred—alone; just Smith, fighting and suffering and struggling for his life. 'Me--Smith' The new Corrie Rose was more considerate than the self-centred thoughtlessness of youth had permitted the boy Corrie to be. From the Car Behind A Church which is not adequately marshalled for activity in heathen lands will soon become self-centred and will easily forget the claims, if not the very existence, of the heathen. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ He is self-centred, all shams now, and when he sees that you are taken in by them, just as he is himself, he despises you. The Wooden Horse No lonely introspective spirit, withdrawn from the crowd and hating the voices of the world, can afford to lose touch with the secret of Rousseau; with what his self-centred and impassioned existence really meant. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Young people are too self-centred to bother with it. Across the Mesa So far from being self-centred or of limited interests, he could, as hardly any other man ever could, claim the hackneyed Homo sum, etc., as his rightful motto. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Absence of standards, absence of amusements, the lack of contrast, these are a few of the causes that contribute towards the self-centred existence led by most inhabitants of rural communities. Ringfield A Novel Goodness, what a lot of self-centred people there must be in New York!” The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City He is not devoid of the conception of duty, but he applies this conception in methods adapted to the narrow and illiberal conditions of his isolated and self-centred life. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 Being self-centred, the Earth has naturally an exaggerated sense of self-esteem. This Giddy Globe And that Rupert's sorrow for his young wife had been, if self-centred and reserved, of an intense and prolonged nature was known to all the family. The Light of Scarthey He noticed a change in Lily so marked that even his self-centred nature could not fail to observe it. Tongues of Conscience How much the girls were missing by being self-centred! The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City She is exceedingly self-centred, you know, and does not trouble herself even to appear interested in anybody else. Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls It was his home, where he could possess his soul, could be self-centred and serene. Horace She was herself frightened at the boy’s savage obduracy, his self-centred insistence on his imaginings, his hardness and impatience and contempt of all restraint. The Goose Man It is because the outlook of woman is as a rule so pitifully narrow and self-centred that she often makes a useless and unhappy wife, and shipwrecks her own and others’ futures. Three Things He was so self-centred, so pompous, so utterly selfish, that he never thought how he might wrong other people. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City They possess no individuality, no "vision"; they are narrow, self-centred, pompous, clannish—with that clannishness which means only complete self-satisfaction with the clan. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends By degrees the girls all began to realize “the social spirit” for the first time in their self-centred, individualistic lives. The Cricket The “impersonal,” those who are not self-centred, love him for this. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. I'm afraid we third-year girls are very self-centred and selfish. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 I have often thought, although I have never said so before, that our lives were too self-centred. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 I, my lords," she said with a gentle smile, the irony of which was lost on their self-centred intellects, "I pray you have no thoughts of me. "Unto Caesar" He never had thought of his father as old, or lonely, but always as tireless, self-centred, self-sufficient,325 absorbed heart and soul in getting rich. The Man from the Bitter Roots She is growing too fast and she is morbid and self-centred. Judy of York Hill The sight of that placid, motherly face breaking into lines of anguish while the gray old head bowed in weakness, completely unmanned the self-centred young scientist, and bending above her, he tenderly pleaded. The Tyranny of the Dark A child is very self-centred; I had no doubt that I should be the object of much attention in heaven on that day at least. The King's Mirror Avowedly wilful of temper, he had since his return from Syria become even more silent, more self-centred than before. "Unto Caesar" It's going to keep us from growing selfish and self-centred to have him. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's It is self-centred; there you see all the little shifts and contrivances which result from the forced supplying of wants that cannot be satisfied from outside. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Truth to tell, they were neither of them very susceptible to flattery, for neither of them was in the least self-centred. A Venetian June She wondered whether, and could not but trust that, this old friend and newcomer was not too self-centred, too hardened by ability and success to appreciate the intimate pathos of the position. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance She saw herself, as she hesitated on the threshold, a wretched mercenary creature—the sport of greed and jealousy—self-centred and governed by thought of gain. Men of Affairs He realized, for the first time, perhaps, in his self-centred life, that he was but a unit among suffering millions. Flamsted quarries Only the man or the woman of a small, personal, self-centred, self-seeking nature is exclusive. In Tune with the Infinite or, Fullness of Peace, Power, and Plenty George seems to have been an absolutely self-centred man. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV The simple comforts of home, made precious by the touch of love, are giving way to luxuries that can only have their full extension in the isolation of self-centred life. Creative Unity Hester Thornton was, however, for once so self-centred that she could think of no sorrow but her own. Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World The self-centred element in Erasmus must needs increase accordingly as he in truth became a centre and objective point of ideas and culture. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation If he was self-centred, it was in his strength, not in his weakness. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 She tied on her hat in her old, hopeless way, and the ivory smoothness of her face spoke of self-centred and silent suffering. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 In the commencement of the poem we find that the God Shiva, the Good, had remained for long lost in the self-centred solitude of his asceticism, detached from the world of reality. Creative Unity A cool, self-centred, self-preserving something in his mind had taught him to command all his own forces for one purpose. Despair's Last Journey His interpretation of the intentions of his assailants has the ingenious self-centred element which passes the borderline of sanity. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation But inasmuch as our self-centred life is the exact opposite of His, we can never be filled with His life unless we are prepared for God to bring our life constantly to death. The Calvary Road They say lovers are self-centred, but really I think you're the worst I ever met. Half a Hero A Novel And women are not sympathetic, because they are intensely self-centred. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Truly Nathalie herself could hardly have guessed the depths to which she had plunged this quiet and self-centred man. The Genius How self-centred is man, and how darkly do his own petty interests overshadow the giant things of life. The Sins of Séverac Bablon They represent the natural reactions to life of the self-centred human consciousness, enslaved by the "world of multiplicity"; and constitute absolute barriers to its attainment of Reality. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People She could have dreamed of another sort of wife for her boy, for Catie's crudeness occasionally irritated her, Catie's self-centred ambition, her intervals of density sometimes came upon Mrs. Brenton's nerves. The Brentons His guiding star was not Christianity, which in its most characteristic and beautiful aspects had no fascination for him, but rather that severe and self-centred ideal of life and character which is called Puritanism. Milton This self-centred life, economically, judicially, and ecclesiastically so nearly independent of other bodies, put obstacles in the way of change. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England He will be self-centred, equipoised, and ever master of himself. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power When, therefore, you put aside your preconceived ideas, your self-centred scale of values, and let intuition have its way with you, you open up by this act new levels of the world. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People But his wealth was less than supposed, his culture was self-centred, and his good-will was neither broad nor zealous. On the Stairs Lack of social sympathy increases as the interests become self-centred; out of this characteristic grow directly such evils as petty lawlessness, rowdyism, and crime. Society Its Origin and Development The self-centred mind is a mind closed to other things, and to this extent it is nearly always unbalanced and distorted. Spirit and Music He could not be moved from his base; he was self-centred, immovable. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Yes," resumed Mr. Sefton, "I love a woman, and with all the greater fire because I am naturally undemonstrative and self-centred. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond What may be considered merely memory in contrast to Shakespeare's imagination is regarded by Hazlitt as a limitless source of visionary life when compared with the ideas of self-centred authors like Byron. Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne As the individual rises in the scale of social intelligence, his interests become less self-centred, and as he extends his acquaintance and associations the scope of his interests enlarges. Society Its Origin and Development In the yard the journeyman, entirely self-centred, was hopping about on one leg and cursing. Clayhanger She rose to it with a dignity which seemed to set the restless, self-centred Betty of an hour ago years behind. Betty Trevor With its own railways, harbour, and town, the enterprise is a self-centred community of much prosperity. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development I was no heartless monster, but a decidedly self-centred child. The Promised Land The natural man may be self-absorbed and self-centred, but in a truer sense it is natural for him to give up self and link his life on to others. Friendship The mission which in Thomson is purely self-centred becomes in Kipling almost as universal as the visions of the Hebrew bards. Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678 No man and no theory is wholly self-centred. A Short History of Greek Philosophy I might have expected it from a man who was so perfectly self-centred and absorbed. The Story of a Play A Novel Christopher is so self-centred, that a thing is never properly brought home to him until it affects himself; no other person can ever convince him that he is in the wrong. The Farringdons It is not the self-centred, self-contained hero, who lays hold of us; it is ever the comradeship of heroes. Friendship Borrow was at times a very irritable man, he was a very self-centred one. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends The one was self-centred, the other wholly centred upon art for art's sake—yet both were great. Story-Lives of Great Musicians I said he was self-centred, and he is. The Story of a Play A Novel The women he saw oftenest were mostly nervous, exacting, self-centred creatures, craving constant flattery. The Heather-Moon The self-centred being cannot keep friends, even when he makes them; his selfish sensitiveness is always in the way, like a diseased nerve ready to be irritated. Friendship A self-centred man, who never talks about himself, and cannot be got to lift the veil which surrounds his birth and early life. The Eternal City And in each succeeding century do we find a similar ardour, self-centred and solitary, among those who were wise and good. The Buried Temple He was too proud in feeling and too self-centred in opinion ever to think of aping anything or anybody. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Beethoven," says Old Fogy, is "dramatic, powerful, a maker of storms, a subduer of tempests; but his speech is the speech of a self-centred egotist. A Book of Prefaces We cannot live a self-centred life, without feeling that we are missing the true glory of life. Friendship Every imperfect soul is self-centred and thinketh only of his own good. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá She was very gentle with him, always attentive, always ready to be interested; but any one less self-centred than Dare would have had a misgiving about her feeling for him. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers I know it—I was proud and self-centred! Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat Mothers are beginning to clutch at their sons; and even self-centred fathers and selfish pretty sisters look at their male relatives with questioning, with a hint of respect or even awe in it. Robin It is so easy for a man to become self-centred, and to impoverish his affections through sheer neglect. Friendship It had, from the very beginning, been this; Helen, hard, self-centred, insensible, so that anything appealing or uncertain was bound to be shattered against her. Franklin Kane Others might be broken on the wheel; but he was still sufficiently an egoist, sufficiently self-centred to be indifferent to them. The Loom of Youth Few performances on the contemporary stage are commensurate with his embodiments of Harebell and Gringoire, in softness, simplicity, poetic charm, and the gentle tranquillity that is the repose of a self-centred soul. Shadows of the Stage Perhaps part of the doom of a petty, self-centred nature is that it does not know when it has been generously and humanely dealt with. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron The most serious objection ever made to religion is that it produces a narrow, self-centred type of mind. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals Both were in evening-dress,—both smoked idly, and apparently not so much for the pleasure of smoking as for lack of something better to do, and both seemed self-centred and absorbed in thought. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Shelley's lyrics are intensely self-centred, but no one can find in them either realism or egoism. Studies in Early Victorian Literature She never mentioned her pain or loneliness, and to Thornton's careless glance she appeared as she always did—pale, cold, and self-centred. The Shield of Silence To push aside the feeble and intermittent affection of a closed and self-centred nature, believing it is giving its best, what is that but to push aside a poor man's little offering. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron True religion is not in self-centred culture, but in the culture of all through the service of the single ones and the culture of the one through his service for all. Levels of Living Essays on Everyday Ideals Under the covering of this Seagrave complacency and self-centred sufficiency, all alone by itself was developing the sprouting germ of consideration for others. The Danger Mark An ordinary self-centred creature performs acts of dazzling generosity towards fellows he does not even know—with everything to lose and nothing to gain. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" Then, too, he was scarcely self-centred and egotistical enough for genuine air-castles of any kind. The Debtor A Novel One wonders what part can they have to play, these confederates, led and dominated by a personality as jealous and self-centred as this "young Emperor." The Schemes of the Kaiser Nothing could have been more unlike his saturnine self-centred truculence of restraint. Romance His self-centred absorption was of a totally different nature. The Danger Mark Whenever she had an entirely self-centred object in mind, an object which might possibly meet with opposition, as now, her voice rang harsh and lost its singing quality. By the Light of the Soul A Novel It is more self-centred than Hölderlin's and while the poet is able to diagnose the disease which holds him firmly in its grasp, he lacks those means by which he might free himself from it. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry Her little way was that of a nasty-tempered, self-centred woman, made spiteful by being called upon to leave a place which suited her. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" "He is certainly a very self-centred person," she remarked; "but do you know, I am really a little curious to know how you succeeded in frightening him so thoroughly." A Lost Leader Lord Arranmore is one of the most self-centred men I ever knew—and the least impulsive. A Prince of Sinners She was too self-centred, and, if the truth were told, too emulative. By the Light of the Soul A Novel Like most men of charming manners, Oscar was selfish and self-centred, too convinced of his own importance to spend much thought on others; yet generous to the needy and kind to all. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions Volume 2 He knew the nature of the half-dead woman lying on her bed upstairs, and he comprehended what the soul of her life had been,—her divinely innocent passion for a self-centred man. Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" For with the memory of past wrongs, goes the memory of past benefits, of all the mutual kindlinesses of life, and each unit of humanity becomes self-centred and selfish. Life of Charles Dickens To become self-centred, and yet to be able to pass entirely out of one's self into the thoughts, emotions, impulses, and sufferings of others, involves a harmonising of opposing tendencies which is difficult of attainment. Books and Culture All of their attention upon affairs of State is cast inward upon their own land, is absolutely self-centred. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 And the Mahayana, if less self-centred, has also less self-reliance, and self-discipline. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Mr. Newman points out that Wagner was so magnificently self-centred that he attributed all opposition to "misunderstanding." Richard Wagner Composer of Operas It is as absolutely self-centred and isolated as if it were a fort in the sea or a log-hut in the forest. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Have they ever appeared otherwise than as the most self-centred and unenterprising people in the world, displaying the least possible aptitude for the career of arms? Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War Sophia had spoken strongly, vividly, of the vanity of what men call success, and the emptiness of what they call wealth, but Eliza, self-centred, did not enter into this wide theme. What Necessity Knows This was New Silverstrand, a town of red brick, self-centred and prosperous. The Odds And Other Stories The Brahman stands apart from both, tall and slim, with finely-modelled lips and nose, fair complexion, high forehead, and slightly cocoanut shaped skull—the man of self-centred refinement. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 They are, however, elegies of a different kind, much more self-centred, and, indeed, little more than fresh variations on “the note,” as I ventured to call it before. Matthew Arnold "Was he always as dictatorial, as self-centred and self-willed?" Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst Secure in his impregnable egotism, ramparted about with mighty walls of conceit, he bids defiance to attack, and lives an enviable life of self-centred pleasure. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 26, 1892 It generally points to a want of focus in the mind; because self predominates in the affections feeling and interest are self-centred. The Education of Catholic Girls Warwick Hall had widened Ethelinda's horizon, until she was able to take an interest in many things now outside of her own narrow self-centred circle. The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware These are the deathless forms of the happy Olympians, high above the cares and turmoil of the finite, self-centred and independent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Montaigne's warning against the undue tenderness of a narrow family life no longer seemed reasonable, and the family became more self-centred and more enclosed. Little Essays of Love and Virtue Malcourt's stinging words concerning his bodily unloveliness and self-centred inertia came into his mind; and a slow blush deepened the colour in his heavy face. The Firing Line To Louis that could never happen; he was too unloving, too self-centred, too unimaginative ever to see lights from heaven. Captivity This divergence between her self-centred existence and her best convictions becomes constantly more apparent. Democracy and Social Ethics They saw a very great deal of each other, each serving as a sort of balance-wheel to the other's self-centred complacency. The Bells of San Juan I tell you, Leslie, that for intense, self-centred, smouldering volcanoes of humanity, New England cannot be matched the world over. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Portlaw said with that simple self-centred dignity which characterised him in really solemn moments: "Thank God, I'm in an old-line institution and own nothing that can ever pass a dividend!" The Firing Line Had he been less self-centred he could not have tried to hurt her by making fun of her legends. Captivity The mystics of India are sometimes contrasted with their fellows in Europe as being more passive and more self-centred: they are supposed to desire self-annihilation and to have no thought for others. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 It is nevertheless true that this self-centred spirit was, at least in early life, impressionable and open to the influence of others. Outspoken Essays It means that our passional nature with its cravings and ardours, instead of making self-centred whirlpools, flows out in streams of charity and power towards all life. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Something of this Hamil learned through the indiscriminate volubility of his host who, when his feelings had been injured, was amusingly naive for such a self-centred person. The Firing Line It might be thought so, since it is noteworthy that, in spite of her royal insignia and the magnificence of her costume, she has the self-centred look, the austere demeanour of a nun. The Cathedral A passionless and self-centred sage falls short of the ideal. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 A nature so self-centred has always something hard and inhuman about it; he was loved, but loved little in return. Outspoken Essays Call the dead writer an egotist, if you will: wonder at Callender's love for this self-centred nature; I think she was an artist, and as an artist, her experience is of value to art. A Village Ophelia and Other Stories Few have found suspense easy to bear; but for the self-centred an intolerable element is added to it, which unselfish natures escape. Red Pottage At this epoch, and at Alexandria especially, Judaism was no self-centred, exclusive faith afraid of expansion. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria The second creed was scientific and self-centred; it had its origin in the Liberal movement of the sixties, when reforms set in, even in governmental circles. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) In the earlier books the brilliant yet self-centred poet of Paracelsus is still paramount, and even the "oddish boy" who had shyly evolved Pauline is not entirely effaced. Robert Browning Owen took a pencil and did the sum, irritating Harding, who under his moustache wondered how anybody could be so self-centred, so blind to the picture he presented. Sister Teresa Hardly had I been in the house a day when I realised that my fellow-guests were the most reserved and self-centred of all possible people. The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill In some ways it is superior to the famous treatise of à Kempis, On the Imitation of Christ, since the self-centred individualism is less prominent. Christian Mysticism Phoebe’s heart was still sweet enough, but she grew more selfish for herself and her own, more self-centred in great Will and little Will. Children of the Mist Byron's stormy power thrilled and delighted him; but it was too poor in spiritual elements, too negative, self-centred, and destructive to stir the deeper sources of Browning's poetry. Robert Browning Lawrence, without country, creed, profession, or territorial obligation, was one of those sons of rich men who form, in any social order, its loosest and most self-centred class. Nightfall The self-centred man can never know these, and much less can he make use of them. What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness Mr. Queed had in fact impressed her as the most frankly and grossly self-centred person she had ever seen in her life. Queed He was self-centred, as are all sinners, immersed in his own downfall, like a man in an ocean. Flames Perhaps it is because I was so much alone, so self-centred, in my childhood. The Dangerous Age The eyes bent upon her were indeed, as before, the eyes of a man self-centred, self-absorbed. The Marriage of William Ashe Never let this glorious word be disgraced, degraded, by applying it to the little, self-centred whelps who are unable to get beyond the politician stage. What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness He wasn't just hero-worshipping and imitating, just spinning some self-centred romance. Mr. Britling Sees It Through The tea cleared the latter's fogged brain a little, but he was still morose and self-centred. Flames Among his fellow-men he had forged a self-centred, confident way to the front; and had met there not ultimate achievement, but a young girl, Valerie West. The Common Law Walpole was a social being, and not finally self-centred. The Art of Letters "Yes, so much!" she answered, her usual reserved, self-centred manner for the moment lost. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 It is not only ill-adjusted to the hygienic facts of the case but it fails even to invoke any genuinely moral motive, for it is exclusively self-regarding and self-centred. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society The basis of all excellence is a wholesome disregard of externals, and the cultivation of a strong self-reliant and self-centred, because God-trusting and Christ-centred, will. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Who stands self-centred in the field of fame, And, grappling, flings to earth a giant's frame? Poems The antagonism between the man of Scroll's type--disinterested, pure-minded, poetic, and liable, often, in action to the scrupulosity which destroys action; and the men of Falloden's type--strong, claimant, self-centred, arrogant, determined--is perennial. Lady Connie In especial I may refer to the beautiful family assemblies which are almost self-centred. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour If he was like many self-centred men of our own time he probably did not admit this. Four Psalms XXIII. XXXVI. LII. CXXI. Interpreted for practical use Such mothers, so self-centred, so set on their own triumphs, with their intellectual noses so very much in the clouds, deserved such sons! A Great Success He has been described as "proud, shy, reticent, strong-willed, sweet-tempered, and self-centred." A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature And looking across the abyss which separated them, she saw her passionate self-centred past and Veronica's little transit from the schoolroom to the convent. Evelyn Innes She was at once impressible and creative, impulsive and deliberate, pliant in sympathy yet firmly self-centred, confidingly responsive while commanding in originality. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II He belonged, moreover, to that class of professionals who are always particularly self-centred, autocratic, vain, and florid,—the class of quacks. Emerson and Other Essays The self-centred thought behaves in exactly the same way with regard to its generator, and discharges itself upon him when opportunity offers. A Textbook of Theosophy Each of us puts himself of his own volition into the class of the self-centred, or the self-forgetting, and in the act marks himself as happy or unhappy. The New North Looked at from a certain side, her life did seem self-centred, but allowance, she thought, must be made for the difficulties—the entanglements in which the first false step had involved her. Evelyn Innes Her independence, even if haughty and rash, was the natural action of a self-centred will, that waited only fit occasion to prove itself heroic. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II He appeared, says his biographer, "more widely sympathetic in his works than in his life"; with no moral selfishness he was, adds Mrs Orr, intellectually self-centred; and unquestionably the statement is correct. Robert Browning When God would break up man's first great ambitious scheme of a self-centred monopoly on the Shinar plains, He simply touched his tongue. Quiet Talks about Jesus He, the strong, obstinate, self-centred old man who had never, till Helen's advent, done anything except to suit his own convenience! Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) 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 The actual records are lacking, but such hints and surmises as we have do not warrant our thinking of him as a self-centred, unsociable youth. George Washington Harry had never known a woman like Rose; a woman so poised and self-centred, so cultivated, so capable of deep and just reflections, and so religious. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel Abnormally proud, self-centred and sensitive as he was, Lenau was born to unhappiness and disillusionment; his journey to America, begun with the most generous anticipations, ended in homesickness and bitter disappointment. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes He is less a visionary, because his experience of men and things is greater than theirs; his outlook is wider, he is less self-centred. Giorgione Religious feeling the expression of which was confined to the relations between the individual and his God, would become self-centred, egoistic, and morbid. The Church and Modern Life The scene of this new movement was as like as it could be in our modern world to a Greek polis, or an Italian self-centred city of the Middle Ages. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 As his eyes met mine and I saw that there was something as near suffering in them as the man's self-centred careless nature was capable of feeling I saw my opportunity. Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon The book perfectly renders the disillusion, languor and sentimentality which characterise a self-centred scepticism. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters From her cradle she is made to realize its power, and men and women teach her in a thousand unconscious ways to be selfish and self-centred. A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters At that time I was a very self-centred individual. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography He thought of Goethe as a proud, self-centred son of fortune, with whom friendship would be impossible. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes She is more thoroughly the master of her powers, is more self-centred, looks out upon human experience more calmly and with a more penetrating gaze. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy His habits were at once saturnine and selfish; his temper gloomy and distrustful, and his feelings cold and self-centred. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 He was much too self-centred to lose himself in the works of others. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge He is so self-centred in his devotion to his work that I have always been shut out of his heart. Bambi What had been a bit self-centred and self-conscious—bright as if only for being bright and for dazzling—was outgoing and self-forgetful, and so softened. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. He was too thoroughly self-centred, however, to let other than his own preferences long dominate his Rag-weed's actions. Dust Louis XIII, at this period, was in so delicate a state of health as to require constant care and attention, while his sullen and self-centred disposition demanded no less watchfulness. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 Calm, and self-centred, and complete, the aesthetic critic contemplates life, and no arrow drawn at a venture can pierce between the joints of his harness. Intentions Senor Johnson, like most men who have long delayed marriage, was self-centred without knowing it. Arizona Nights But these ancients were not always disinterested; and the moderns are not always narrow, self-centred and cold. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author He was self-centred, as the creative nature must inevitably be. Life and Letters of Robert Browning It is not even its own reward, except for the self-centred and - I had almost said - the unamiable. Across the Plains But these formed merely a noisy background to his mood, which was self-centred and gloomy. The Shuttle The Nemesis of this self-centred spirit is that of being totally ineffectual. Heretics It may not be denied that at times he appeared to be a very self-centred boy. Penrod He was an abstracted, self-centred old man, with but two hobbies—homoeopathy and the mechanism of clocks. Blix To one less self-centred than Peabody, it might have appeared that she almost too readily consented. The Scarlet Car One after another of the self-centred Folk would yield to it, and soon all would be dancing or chanting in chorus. Before Adam Then its meaning broke in upon his consciousness from all sides, and lighted up his heavy face with the glow of a conqueror's self-centred smile. The Market-Place The Norwegian and Swedish lads were much more self-centred, apt to be egotistical and jealous. O Pioneers! The majority of the celebrities with whom he had tipped glasses in his day as manager hailed from this self-centred and populous spot. Sister Carrie: a Novel She was so self-centred in her misery that she was not aware that the door had been opened, a head thrust in and withdrawn, and the door closed. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Her timid, self-centred little soul instinctively sought shelter in the neighbourhood of a friend, who would perhaps have been more than a friend, if he could. It Happened in Egypt The nobility was not sufficiently self-centred to be wholly blind to its own interests; and it was easier to patronise a soldier than a pleader. A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate It is because, I think, I had fancied you to be not completely self-centred, after all, and I cannot bear to face my own idiocy. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking She was a cold, self-centred woman, with many a thought of her own which never found expression, not even by so much as the glint of an eye. Sister Carrie: a Novel But some people say that parrots are mean, self-centred, and malignant. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories His thoughts were fluent in fresh channels, his interests no longer the interests of the Michael Lanyard he had known, no longer self-centred, the interests of the absolute ego. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama I dare say not, as he is self-centred, being seldom aware of anything beyond his own immediate sensations. Ruggles of Red Gap If we have read Shakespeare rightly, his intelligence was peculiarly self-centred; he was wise mainly through self-knowledge, and not, as is commonly supposed, through knowledge of others and observation; he was assuredly anything but worldly-wise. The Man Shakespeare Introspective, personal, individualistic, self-centred are their painters and their poets. Dutch Life in Town and Country And from that moment my grief was less self-centred, and the blessed power to feel for others began to return to me. The Heavenly Twins She is not that self-centred being, full of profound intuitions, angelic love, and flowing poesy, that she should be. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. Complaint is frequently made that we have no great men like those of the past; but such grand individualities as Hawthorne and Webster, or even self-centred characters like Horace Greeley, are no longer possible. Sketches from Concord and Appledore It implies, too, that the common feeling of brotherhood was stronger than the self-centred regard which looks on possessions as to be used for self. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts For everything in our old self-confident, self-centred nature is up in arms against the conditions of entrance. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Was there no power equal to teaching this masterful, self-centred creature that a woman was a woman and not a cold abstraction composed merely of the generalized attributes of the race, male and female alike? Under the Skylights Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation; it would be only an experience to her as to man. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. The little self-centred thing had somehow been made to wonder and admire; which is much for all of us. The History of David Grieve It is foolishness and paradox to the self-centred life of nature. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Even the driest of worldly-wise people are moved out of their self-centred interests by the rush of the pervading emotion. Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore She had never noticed before that he was remarkably self-centred, but he was thrusting the fact upon her attention now. The Adventures of Sally People say he is self-centred, whatever that may mean. An American Politician And it was perhaps a little self-centred of Ready to thank God for her recovery on the grounds that she could “ill be spared” by a family rather short-handed in the rainy season. If I May The child Pansie, frisking with her kitten —a more simple, ingenuous, and self-centred, but also less sympathetic nature than the Pearl of Hester Prynne—may have been studied from Hawthorne's daughter Rose. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne The self-centred man is poor; he neither owns himself nor anything besides, in any deep sense. Expositions of Holy Scripture He is, I think, without exception, the most selfish and self-centred young man of my acquaintance. The Adventures of Sally The books which have lived and always will live have this unconsciousness in them, and what is manufactured, self-centred, and self-contemplative will perish. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Following one another quickly, these extracts may seem to imply that she was gloomy and self-centred during these years; but that was never the impression she made on others. Lady John Russell It is surprising to note the resemblance between the solemn Chinese and the self-centred Englishmen. With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia So far from regarding Thought as a self-centred, self-enclosed activity, Pragmatism insists upon replacing it in its context among the other functions of life, and in measuring its value by its effect upon them. Pragmatism |
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