英语词汇“self-involved”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

“I'm an only child. Can't you tell by how adorably self-involved I am?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He’s good-looking, with those brown curls and those eyes and that body, and he can get a little cocky, a little self-involved, but Annabelle and everyone else forgive him for it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn't want him to be self-involved and distant like the stoner boys I pined for in high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Artists always seem so self-involved. Everything is about their art.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The camera crew got sidetracked at a table of shellfish, and the couples dancing around us are either too drunk or too self-involved to notice. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He was too busy being adorably self-involved to notice,” Hassan interjected. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The second act is much stronger, mainly because Norris seems on firmer ground satirizing his contemporaries — the self-involved, self-consciously liberal yuppies busily going over plans for the neighborhood’s renovation. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z

At 45, she works for a nonprofit organization that provides food to poor children, and she is about as self-conscious, self-involved and self-questioning a person as you’re likely to meet. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

I like the Rolling Stones, but I like them a little less now that I’ve read Keith Richards’ Life, which I found bumptious and self-involved. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z

You might note their air of distraction, or be curious about the self-involved happiness they radiate, but decorum dictates you return your gaze to the iPhone or the blur through the train window. ‘When January Feels Like Summer,’ at Ensemble Studio Theater 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

He is shown as an Ugly American stereotype: loud, self-involved, inarticulate and inordinately proud of his four seemingly hyperactive children. Movie Review: ‘The Second Meeting,’ a Documentary by Zeljko Mirkovic 2013-05-10T01:16:47Z

Mourning the loss of his ghost pal and suffering emo-hysterics after the train massacre, Mitchell is even more self-involved and tortured than usual – hence his decision to cross over and get her back. Being Human: Series three, episode one 2011-01-23T22:34:00Z

It was just two hours of beautiful people representing every shade of brown, sporting their best Y2K wear, thriving professionally and being decadently self-involved to the beat of a neo-soul soundtrack. A New ‘Best Man’ Gives Equal Time to the Women 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

Yes, there are obstacles, but it turns out that the biggest one is not an unexpected pregnancy or even a failed MFA experience but her relationship with the self-involved, volatile Amy. Review: ‘Friendship,’ by Emily Gould

But the contrast Rambert draws between this self-involved sourpuss and a good girl like Delia is a brilliant way of making you think about performance. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

All of “Girls”’ characters are too self-involved to really feel anything for anyone else, and that’s because as creations, they don’t have much life outside of the show’s requirements. The “Girls” wedding from hell: Is Lena Dunham torturing her characters or us? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z

In her account, he comes off as wildly insensitive and self-involved — at one point he calls her "a bad investment" — but also charismatic and brilliant. Padma Lakshmi explains why she left her knives packed when writing 'Love, Loss, and What We Ate' 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

It is also not known whether it would be as effective in detaching from other negative emotions, such as guilt or embarrassment, which are more inherently self-involved, says Yang. How can you conquer ordinary, everyday sadness? Think of it as a person 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

“I think that it comes with the territory when you’re in the business — you tend to be a little self-involved,” he said. Lindsey Buckingham Has Survived It All 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

“How could you be so self-involved as to not see someone you care about when they’re standing right in front of you?” A Daughter, Her Father and the Long-Gone Poet Who Brought Them Together 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

The daughter in that film, played by Meryl Streep, clearly resents her self-involved movie-star mother, who infantilizes but also cares fiercely for her while she is in recovery. Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, a Mother-Daughter Act for the Ages 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

She meets her nasty, trailer-trash mother this year, finds a connection with her and actually finds – in her weird, self-involved Jenna way – a perfect boyfriend. Enter stage write 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

Heyns draws James with an affectionate hand, as quirky and verbose and brilliant as we would wish, equal parts self-involved and kind. Taking dictation from Henry James was a lesson in style — and patience 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Norma loses it publicly and calls the self-involved mayor of White Pine Bay a word that can't be printed in a family newspaper because he devalues her? Delving deep for Norma's voice on 'Bates Motel' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

What she came up with centered on a struggling, self-involved actress, Kate, putting on an autobiographical solo show, a vanity project. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

On season eight, Ms. Del Toro and her self-involved outbursts became a narrative of the show’s early episodes, and a huge liability. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol': Hollywood Week 2011-02-11T22:00:52Z

Except: there is something ominously self-involved about this hybrid thing. The Voraciousness and Oddity of Dora Maar’s Pictures 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

In a time when many claim children are apathetic and self-involved, here is a girl who has put her life on hold to try to save the world. I was cynical about Greta Thunberg’s voyage, but she’s upsetting all the right people | Romesh Ranganathan 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z

That’s something that revealing herself to be a self-involved woman with familiar, typical desires does not change. How Marina Abramovic's memoir does and doesn't illuminate the artist's work 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

As a concept, that sounds cloying and self-involved, but if Adlon ever dangles her storylines close to those edges, she yanks them right back with a pithy line, or another abrupt end to a scene. Better Things gets better: Pamela Adlon triumphs without Louis CK 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

And these very self-involved and very beautiful girls are evolving in the only way the self-involved can, very slowly. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

“And such an amazing foil for Albus, who is tortured and self-involved.” How Much Magic Can ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Make on Broadway? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

That promise is paradoxical: In offering a pull-no-punches satire of self-involved humans, it is nevertheless filled with pity for their disappointments. ‘Intelligent Life’ Review: Cecily Strong’s ‘Awerobics’ Workout 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

OK, Hathaway's bespectacled, "alternative," gamine-but-serious Emma is working in a Mexican restaurant while Sturgess' intolerably self-involved upper-class toff, Dexter, travels the world in bad chinos and a Flock of Seagulls haircut, doing French girls. "One Day": A gimmicky, misbegotten love story 2011-08-18T17:19:00Z

Its characters are self-involved but also self-aware, their dilemmas reflecting how identity, addiction, the #MeToo movement and other modern hot-button issues permeate their personal and professional lives. The Cast of ‘The Bold Type’ on Staying Current 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The shadows of "the war of 1940" intrude on two later stories focusing on self-involved men: a Uruguayan bon vivant in Europe in "The Spectator" and a wealthy collector in "Monsieur Rose." Ir?ne N?mirovsky: the life of and new work by the author of 'Suite Fran?aise' 2010-05-05T22:07:00Z

Her mom is totally self-involved to the point of neglect. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A troubled stepdaughter, an often-deployed dad and a stepmom in over her head 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z

Women may indeed be drawn to lazy, self-involved role models because they are weary of trying in a world that conflates effort with equality. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

The Noah here is different too–still handsome, but more self-involved, less noble. Review: The Affair: More Than Meets the "I" 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Hanks, who previously referred to Donald Trump as “a self-involved gasbag” and publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton, spoke about the importance of still respecting the US. Tom Hanks on the election result: 'America has been in worse places' 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Some parents, fed up by their slacker, self-involved friends, are taking drastic action. Family Matters: The Godparent Trap 2010-05-28T22:39:00Z

As the first Kyrie section begins, roiling, boisterous activity fills the orchestra, while the choir enters above it with calm, hovering harmonies: the heavens gazing down on the ceaseless, self-involved bustle of earth. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

Calling actors self-involved is, true or not, a relatively easy joke. SAG Awards 2015: 'Birdman' noms find actors supporting actors 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

“For some reason, I think that he has some information for me that I need to know. I think I have this weird void because my father was this angry, detached, self-involved dude.” Lots of Love for Garry Shandling 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Being a ballerina is very self-involved, and our family at City Ballet is one of the best there is. Georgina Pazcoguin on Her First Broadway Opening Night, in ‘Cats’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Women advocating for their own success are perceived as bossy or self-involved, Sandberg says, and so they should instead argue that their success will benefit the greater good. Perspective | The revolutionary strategy hidden in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram feed 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

In Bernstein’s later years, he was too great and too self-involved to be edited. Perspective | Too much Bernstein leaves a critic fed up with his music 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Yet this problem of dramatic incongruity appears strangely relevant to the current moment; the intensely self-involved preoccupations of the élite operatic characters render them blind to the casual ferocity of the hard-drinking, war-loving chorus. Opera and Brexit in London 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

To avoid being self-involved or trying to do what the icon was doing. Diana Krall on Tony Bennett: ‘You Can’t Step Into His Dream’ 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

As a personality, Nico is often portrayed in the movie as obstinate, self-involved, paranoid, and reckless. Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

Either Nicolas is so self-involved that he doesn’t notice their adoration, or he takes it as his due. | 'Heartbeats': Three to a Bed, but No Funny Stuff 2011-02-25T01:16:10Z

The question is posed: Are the characters waking up from their self-involved and misanthropic ways? ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Returns, and a New Day Begins 2014-01-13T04:00:22Z

In his original endorsement, Franzen went on to link Lerner's novel to the case of the Swedish academician who, a few years ago, attacked American writing as insular and self-involved. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-12T07:07:54Z

A Girl Like Her hints at Avery’s torment through awkward encounters with her self-involved mother and unresponsive father. Can a Movie Fix Bullying-Related Suicide? 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

But some is the particular milieu of the extremely bougie New York parent—perhaps the most uniquely self-involved group on the planet. “Louie” and the walking uterus: When ugly liberal entitlement and surrogate pregnancy collide 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

By creating one of the most blithely self-involved, unfiltered, socially maniacal protagonists on television, David has contributed a lot to the cause of human happiness, even if that happiness is mainly of the Schadenfreude variety. Festival Dispatch: Life Lessons from Larry David 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s a decision that will fling the lives of her self-involved cabal hither and thither, like raindrops being shaken off an umbrella. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

And with its self-consciously self-involved hero, who happens to suffer from all of these woes, The Double describes—and aptly explains—the experiential anxieties of modern social media. Tweets from underground: How Dostoevsky anticipated social media 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z

But the result was awkward, certainly squandering momentum and making the next generation seem rather self-involved. Woody Guthrie’s Star-Studded 100th Birthday Party 2012-10-15T16:43:47Z

And then with Max, it's why he has become so hardened to life and why he is so focused and self-involved and narcissistic and finding interesting reasons so that they become some way sympathetic. PBS' "Guilt" examines what happens to estranged brothers after they finally bond over killing someon 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

"Gary has been a uniquely selfish and self-involved actor, even by actor standards," Cox says. Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great 2012-02-09T18:59:00Z

Instead she goes to Gene Cousineau, who's not a licensed therapist, to explore her trauma in front of a room full of also self-involved acting students. "Barry" star Sarah Goldberg loves playing her unlikable role: "Make her a monster. I'm all for it" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z

The insightful if slightly self-involved “Documented” tells the story of his decision to speak up and the days of despair and optimism that followed. ‘Documented’: Personal link enriches look at immigration 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

While Klausner herself is an ardent feminist, her TV id is considerably less self-aware and more self-involved. Feminism can be funny too: Julie Klausner and season 3 of “Difficult People” on Hulu 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Presley's own contradictions were similar to the country's as it hurtled through a difficult and self-involved decade. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Thornhill’s book is an often self-involved account of a Westerner’s transient and shallow stroll among people whose lives and histories she fails to grasp. Personal Stories From the Refugee Experience 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Olds has sometimes being criticized for being self-involved, for narcissism run amok. Sharon Olds, Laureate of Sexuality, Scrutinizes the Body in ‘Odes’ 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

But the danger is to create or do things that are too self-involved. The Carpetbagger: France's Oscar Hopes Depend on Its Health-Care System 2012-01-17T19:58:32Z

Roger, who works in the film business, may seem callous and self-involved at first. Movie Review: ?A Simple Life,? Directed by Ann Hui 2012-04-12T21:40:33Z

It’s just a fun little show about some self-involved idiots, like dozens of other shows before it. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z

But the current pop moment is more splintered and self-involved. Music Review: ‘Bringing Human Rights Home’ at Barclays Center 2014-02-06T23:46:07Z

“They have not evolved or become less self-involved,” she said. Power gays and pussy hats, but 'Will & Grace' puts funny first 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

“It almost reminds me of someone from, like, high school. He’s very boyish. But living in LA the last 20 years, do you know how many delusional, narcissistic, self-involved people there are?” says Rex. Serendipity strikes for Simon Rex as an adult-film antihero 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

Make way for a group of self-involved Broadway performers, swooping in to save the day — and get publicity — through song and dance. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Robert Weber, whose elegant and witty cartoons about the privileged and the self-involved were staples of The New Yorker for 45 years, died on Oct. Robert Weber Dies at 92; His New Yorker Cartoons Twitted the Overprivileged 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

I tell myself I am too self-involved and not practical enough, immature and lazy. 'I feel bombarded with to-dos': the hell of life admin – and how to get on top 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Hanks, who publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton, has previously referred to Trump as “a self-involved gasbag” but said recently that “America has been in worse places” and was still “the greatest country in the world”. Tom Hanks sends espresso machine to help White House press fight for truth 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Like, these characters have to be very self-involved and insular, just for this story to work. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z

Their North Star, Irene, played by Parker Posey, is a moderately successful and immoderately self-involved actress who is “theater famous, not famous famous.” Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

The former "Friends" star portrays Ben Donovan, a self-involved, womanizing manager of a busy sports arena in the upcoming ABC comedy called "Mr. Sunshine," which he also helped write and executive produced. Matthew Perry returning to TV as "selfish jerk" 2010-08-01T21:53:00Z

"Other people take great offence to it, as if she doesn't understand that she's commenting on the mistakes that people make, about girls who feel self-entitled and are experimenting in a self-involved way." Judd Apatow: 'There's a narcissism to my characters' 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z

But the play’s overwhelming sense of the woman is: flippant, profane, superficial and painfully self-involved. | 'Woman Before a Glass': She Loved Herself, Yes, but She Also Loved Art 2011-05-20T02:05:01Z

It was amusing how these self-involved singers took the time to share with us their internal experience of each number, and their sweet thank yous effectively tied off each comic segment. DanceNow Festival Keeps Performances Short and Snappy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

And yet, a couple of times a year, a song penetrates through the self-involved clutter. Albums by Mary Lambert, Nico & Vinz and Angaleena Presley 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Girls’ sadness is not passive, self-involved, or shallow,” she told the magazine Dazed. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

“I think I get neurotic — anything like that will mean it’s somehow self-involved.” Spike Jonze, Cinema’s Big Kid, Gets a New Playground 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

Braden began thinking about how Americans viewed these films — "the French films were very pretentious and self-involved." Garfield High grad wins Internet Cat Video Film Festival 2012-09-02T04:41:23Z

The interlopers from New York are self-involved and conventional despite the mantle of hipness they try to wear. ‘No Place Like Home’ Review: Self-Discovery in Jamaica 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

“They have not evolved or become less self-involved,” she said. Power gays and pussy hats, but 'Will & Grace' puts funny first 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

“At face value he appears to be vain, self-involved and shallow — yuppie,” he said. Peter Scolari, ‘Newhart’ and ‘Girls’ Actor, Is Dead at 66 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Or self-involved divas who get their comeuppance, then mournfully peruse the Barbra Streisand songbook for succor? Riff: How Football Players Got Trounced by ?Glee? 2011-06-03T12:00:00Z

In “The Hedges,” a self-involved young couple at a resort, burdened by their needy toddler, abandon him to the care of a kind but distracted 12-year-old, with disastrous results. Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

She has always been too self-involved and insufficiently self-aware to turn her life into art. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

I like this character, though, because she seems to be as maniacally intuitive as she is self-involved. 'The Affair' Recap: Do Noah and Alison Have Chemistry? 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

Usually, when performers sharing a stage all seem to be on different, self-involved wavelengths, it’s a disaster of disconnection. ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Handled Properly, Ages Well 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

“All any of you care about is yourselves,” the self-involved doctor complains. Books of The Times: A Devil Who Takes the Side of Angels 2010-02-25T00:18:00Z

Three hours later, she’ll be in tears and in between will present Martha in all her seductive, destructive, childish, self-involved fury. A scintillating ‘Virginia Woolf’ with a scalding Holly Twyford 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

It seems almost too perfect a fit for Rob McElhenney, who – as self-involved beefcake Mac – comes up with similarly outlandish and amoral plans in every single episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. After Chris Pratt’s galactic triumph, which other sitcom stars should become heroes? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

Tory of the Express pegs Joyce as "just a bit crazy, eccentric, self-obsessed and self-involved and manipulative, and barking mad, probably." Tabloid: The Honey Blonde and the 'Manacled Mormon' 2011-07-14T21:10:00Z

"The situation is so dire that it caused me, a lazy, self-involved, generally self-medicated man-child to start an entire charity organization," he said. Seth Rogen, Ben Affleck in US Senate 2014-02-27T10:10:44Z

Booze flowed, egos bloomed and, in a room full of self-involved poets, Eberhart “always was his own favorite subject.” In Two Memoirs, the Scars of Childhood Trauma Run Deep 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

Even though I recognize its flaws, such as lack of diversity, I still love its thorny, self-involved, often unlikable characters, who no matter what transpires seem to float in a constant state of Saturn Returns. Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO’s “Girls” and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

This yields a remarkably unflattering portrait of a complicated, extremely self-involved woman. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Was she anxious about possibly being called self-involved or narcissistic? There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

A filmmaker with a toymaker’s heart, Jeunet delights in seeding his movies with eccentric, often menacing gadgets, so it’s no surprise that his wayward androids are more enjoyable than his self-involved human characters. ‘Bigbug’ Review: Rise of the Machines 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The primary through-emotion of the conference attendees — if not the more fiery presenters — wasn’t hatred but a lost, if somewhat self-involved, sadness. Men’s rights activists, gathering to discuss all the ways society has done them wrong

Are you optimistic that a comedy about self-involved hipsters can connect with people? Alia Shawkat on Going From 'Sassy Teen' to the Lead in Search Party 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

With his buzz cut, full beard and imposing physique, the man is arrogant and self-involved. Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Pressly's best exchanges are with Walter, playing a warmer variation on the self-involved, difficult mothers she played on "Arrested Development" and plays on "Archer." 'Jennifer Falls' on TV Land plays it safe 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

But Sally is still the same self-involved spotlight hunter that Bill Hader's assassin Barry met in the first season, when he's immediately struck by her talent for making fake emotions seem real. "Barry" star Sarah Goldberg loves playing her unlikable role: "Make her a monster. I'm all for it" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z

In one scene, the wildly self-involved protagonist fantasizes about her own funeral. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

The Almeida is home to an honorable but unsatisfying adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s 1961 film “Through a Glass Darkly,” a study in the impact of one woman’s schizophrenia on her self-involved family. London Theater Journal: Finding My Way in the Dark 2010-07-27T18:42:00Z

At times these confessedly selfish and self-involved folks seem to be working up material for a self-help book called “He’s Just Not That Into Thee.” 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z

And I actually found him more interesting this season, because in Season 1, he was kind of a classically silly Austen character, this hypochondriac who just talked a lot and was self-involved. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

“Our characters have to be self-involved and focused on their own problems.” On HBO’s ‘Girls,’ a Kitty Genovese Plot Proves Eerily Timed 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

This is about being too immature or self-involved to recognize how his behavior affects and hurts his partner’s feelings. Perspective | Ask Amy: Longtime partner’s online gaming leads to more 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Or is she too self-involved to expend that much energy on anyone else? Books of The Times: In ‘After I’m Gone,’ One Man Leaves Many Questions 2014-02-16T22:04:16Z

When later in the play he is called upon to expose the extent of Charles' self-involved nature, the exhibition he puts on is something of shock. Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

You look back, a lot of it was kind of portentous and self-involved, but we were doing our best. Can Physical Comedy Work on Zoom? Bill Irwin Wants to Find Out 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

In the sleeper 2017 horror hit "Happy Death Day" self-involved college student Tree similarly found herself repeatedly reliving a fatal natal day. The cosmic joke's on her: The antiheroine's journey through a cursed universe 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z

Now I remember why I didn’t keep in touch: She’s gloomy and self-involved. Our Teen Houseguest Seems to Be Stealing Stuff 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The inhabitants of the graveyard are hopelessly self-involved, but the book transcends their narrow purview. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Peggy could also be described, less generously, as grotesquely self-involved and lacking empathy. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 4: Winter Is Coming 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“There’s an optimism in that, and also a child, sleeping next to a mom, and such a stubborn, rebellious, self-involved, not-thinking-big-picture, narrow-minded, shortsighted human — that all was very exciting and came together in that moment.” When broken is beautiful: How Kathryn Hahn and show creators built 'Tiny Beautiful Things' 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

There are really two movies happening here: one, a cat-and-mouse game between two manipulative schemers; and another that skewers self-involved, “anything for a click” influencers. Review: The adventures of young LeBron James prove stubbornly undramatic in 'Shooting Stars' 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

Somewhere along the line, however, Kerr gained a central forgiving insight into Green: His constant need to skirmish is not self-involved; it’s a need to prove self-worth. Perspective | The fascinating partnership that keeps the Warriors together 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Marsden, whose Hollywood credits include “27 Dresses” and the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies, turned into what he calls a “very entitled, self-involved version of James Marsden” — a vain actor, eager for attention. When a reality TV show about jury duty is a summons to laugh 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z

Maybe, on the other hand, the prosecution will make Trump’s candidacy even more self-involved and unappealing than before. Opinion | Trump’s indictment will warp our politics for years to come 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

The other thing is, I get to hold up to nature the insane self-involved hypocrisy of artists and what they think they’re allowed to do on occasion, just my opinion.” Apologize for 'Tropic Thunder'? Not Ben Stiller. He's 'proud' of the Hollywood spoof 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Of course, it helps significantly that, as David Frum wrote in the Atlantic, Trump was provoked by Biden's speech into a "monstrously self-involved meltdown." Biden's speech worked: MAGA is now on notice 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

The film is at its most biting when it satirizes a certain self-involved obliviousness. Review: 'France' showcases Léa Seydoux as a guilt-ridden TV journalist 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Bergman, who romanced his leading ladies and strip mined his personal demons for material, was hardly the least self-involved of European auteurs, and Hansen-Løve has fittingly responded with her own teasing display of meta-effrontery. Review: Mia Hansen-Løve's captivating 'Bergman Island' lures us into a maze of meta-mirrors 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Convolutedly self-involved, he perversely embraces his “daily shame” as a way to connect with “the sufferings of Christ.” Jonathan Franzen kicks off a new trilogy with his brilliant latest novel, ‘Crossroads’ 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

In that instant, what was previously a matter of self-involved fabulosity for Jamie morphs into what he realizes is something with a lineage and profound political meaning: in his words, “a revolution.” Review | A teen dreams of being a drag queen in the glossy movie musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

That leaves Bettany, charming in a Marvel series that became less interesting as time went along, and Grant’s deliciously shifty turn as the self-involved cad in “The Undoing.” Emmys 2021 limited series predictions: 'Mare of Easttown' looks primed for big wins 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

“When writing about her own life, Cusk often sounds depressed, and appears not so much selfish as self-involved,” wrote the reviewer of Cusk’s memoir, “Afterlife,” in theNew York Times Book Review. D.H. Lawrence hated women writers. Now they get to speak 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

She pretends she’s someone else when she’s around her self-involved husband, then gets angry at him for not knowing her better. Review | Dark comedy ‘Physical’ is a deliciously sour cocktail of sweat, tears and female aspiration 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Their show remains one of the most popular in Southern California, ready to be mobilized against the governor they depict as a self-involved lightweight. How three political novices with turbulent pasts helped spark the Newsom recall 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

Voters can expect to see Gardner juxtapose the candidates in an attempt to portray Hickenlooper as a self-involved politician. Colorado prepares for contentious Senate debate: Here's what to expect 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

The most lively moments of “On the Rocks” don't belong to Jones or Murray but to Jenny Slate, who pops up throughout the film as an amusingly self-involved mom-friend of Laura’s. Review | ‘On the Rocks’ has all the right ingredients: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Sofia Coppola. But it’s a flavorless dish. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Stevens is self-involved while presenting as a sensitive guy, White a barely-holding-it-together rage-aholic and Brie a people pleaser more determined than she seems. Review: Dave Franco's 'The Rental' is an indecisive tale of a bummer vacation 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

We’re all self-involved and insecure and limited by our personal experience and it shows. White celebs amplify Black Lives Matter with mixed results 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

A deadpan prose stylist with a keen ear for the absurdly self-involved dialogue that emanates from neurosis, Friedman was, at his best, a savage social satirist. This week’s passages 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

If you choose the honorable path — for our four heroes are, on their own self-involved terms, honorable people — you will come to the perfect ending, of several possible. The best way through Netflix's interactive 'Kimmy Schmidt' special? Sympathy 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

Sober for 31 years, Valentine says that exploring those moments all these years later, when she herself now has a teenage daughter, illuminated the ways in which each Go-Go’s bandmate was struggling and self-involved. Kathy Valentine's hair-raising memoir 'All I Ever Wanted' recounts the Go-Go's wild ride 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

On “Saturday Night Live,” Will Ferrell played the Actors Studio host as verbose, self-involved and prone to making grandiose claims about forgettable careers and praising a guest’s banalities as wisdom. James Lipton, host of ‘Inside the Actors Studio,’ dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

As the House impeachment managers were chronicling President Trump’s self-involved corruption, a group of mayors made another convincing case against Trump — without ever mentioning his name. Opinion | Trump’s selfishness harms you, too 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

By refocusing on grass-roots activism and supporting local leaders, the new board is responding to long-standing criticism that the organization had become too self-involved, while ignoring the national network of activists it has inspired. The Women’s March will host a week of events in D.C. ahead of its fourth annual protest 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

The show also sees Robert spending time with three different girlfriends, who jointly denounce their shared self-involved love interest in the perky tune “You Could Drive a Person Crazy.” The importance of Adam Driver singing 'Being Alive' in 'Marriage Story' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

It offered hope that politics might, someday, be about more than the antics of a self-involved, corrupt and out-of-control chief executive. Opinion | A debate that actually covered the issues? This time, we don't have to imagine. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Early social media posts — including one in which he broadcast a trip to the dentist — reinforced an impression that he was self-involved and lacked substance. Beto O’Rourke quits presidential race amid financial strains and lagging popularity 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

“I was just really self-involved at the time — like so many young people — but I was also on TV where every perceived flaw is amplified.” Heidi Montag admits she got plastic surgery because of Internet trolls 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Yet even these self-involved people, perhaps especially these self-involved people, are prone to wondering how to best navigate the numerous shoals of our volatile world. Review: ‘Non-Fiction’ is a smart and sassy French romantic comedy 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Over the course of 22 films, the MCU has become increasingly insular, complicated, and self-involved. The MCU should have taken more time with the Avengers 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Tinseltown has never seen such self-involved snobbery from so many superficial frauds. Olivier Knox and the crybaby meltdown at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

If all this sounds kind of self-involved — well, that can be a tricky charge for performance art to defend. John Kelly resurrects his past lives: dancer, filmmaker, drag performer and so much more 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Despite that, the actors are terrific, particularly Cary, whose Audrey is so narcissistic and self-involved we should detest her rather than root for her every step of the way as we do. Review: In Nicky Silver's ‘Too Much Sun,’ family follies on the Cape 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

She said she wants to counter the self-involved attitude of her generation and make her peers understand that giving feels good. ‘I want caring to be cool’ — one woman’s Instagram-driven effort to help the homeless 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z

“Britain,” the magazine belatedly lamented last month, “is governed by a self-involved clique that rewards group membership above competence and self-confidence above expertise.” Opinion | The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

In newly leaked audio, reportedly from a Dec. 16 stand-up performance, the comedian referred to trans people and the shooting survivors as part of a larger joke about younger generations being hopelessly self-involved. Louis C.K. sparks new backlash for jokes about trans people, Parkland shooting survivors 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

Or “Great Expectations,” the puzzling account of an American woman who becomes a surrogate mother qua partner to a self-involved divorcée and her adolescent daughter. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

The plural “we” is useful, too, with its implied feedback from loved ones, for those worried that “I” might register as too self-involved — even for someone aspiring to the world’s most important job. For 2020 Democrats, There’s a Lot of ‘Thinking About It’ 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The plural “we” is useful, too, with its implied feedback from loved ones, for those worried that “I” might register as too self-involved, even for someone aspiring to the world’s most important job. For Democrats considering the White House, a lot of ‘thinking about it’ 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

And so they do, gathering together a band of similarly clueless and self-involved fellow-actors to eradicate red-state homophobia and help heal the country’s political divide through the power of song and dance. The Disturbing Resonance of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

The baritone Christopher Maltman was similarly agile as Mark: he brought a vacant, self-involved air to his rapt Act II aria, in which he compares Marnie to a startled deer. Nico Muhly Escapes Hitchcock with a “Marnie” Opera 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

It would be too self-involved, too painful, she felt, to focus on herself when thousands of women and children were still in captivity and suffering horrors like her own. Review: Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad takes the spotlight in documentary 'On Her Shoulders' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

But the performances, particularly Danielsen Lie’s icily self-involved killer, are suitably intense. Review | The director of three ‘Bourne’ movies turns to a different kind of film: A real-life massacre 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

For these self-involved politicos and pundits, the last election always seems to be the one that signaled the end of history. Opinion | Trump finally feels gravity’s unforgiving pull 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Heck, for a minute, even LaVar Ball tried to run the Lakers, and that lasted until his oldest son started clanking shots and his self-involved act turned into a clown show. LeBron James must now deliver the title Lakers fans expect to finalize his legacy 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

“She’s always been strangely self-involved. I don’t feel like either of them were really capable of any kind of love,” he says. Marc Maron: ‘I’m familiar with coke, anger, bullying, selfishness’ 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z

The thing about Chozick’s memoir, though, is that it’s also about being self-involved. Review | Amy Chozick covered Hillary Clinton for a decade. Here’s what she learned — and what she endured. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

On paper, sour, unpleasant, self-involved Ben Ryder is a familiar personality, maybe too familiar. Netflix's 'Kodachrome' reminds that Ed Harris can make standard roles transcendent 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

“Two, I think he’s sanctimonious. And three, he’s very self-involved. And let me unpack those.” James Comey treads fine line as book set to turn up heat on Trump 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

All of which should have been cause for Mr. Trump to let the dismissal speak for itself, but the President is too self-involved for such restraint. The McCabe March Madness 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z

It’s remarkable how sealed off from reality this self-involved snake pit has become. Opinion | A groundswell for sanity 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Parker’s seemingly genuine curiosity defies the stereotype of the self-involved actor but also serves her well in the profession, particularly as the star and hands-on executive producer of “Divorce,” which returns to HBO on Sunday. Sarah Jessica Parker brings her innate curiosity — and a touch of optimism — to Season 2 of 'Divorce' 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

In fact, artists who didn’t have anything to say about the world struggled: Taylor Swift came back with a single that was all about her, and was roundly sniffed at for being too self-involved. 2017: the year in pop culture 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z

These are blocked by self-involved spectacle and ruthless attacks against any who raise their voices to criticize the president. Opinion | What Trump did to Kelly shows how far we have fallen 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z

On the other is a self-involved bully who spends much of his time belittling those who dare oppose him. Opinion | Hillary Clinton tweets up a reminder of why more Americans chose her 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

But, all in all, he is not a bad guy to begin with, just a little rumpled and sad and self-involved. 'Kevin (Probably) Saves the World,' but is he funny? 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

Reuniting many of the characters from 1998’s “The Girl of Your Dreams,” Trueba attempts to duplicate its winning formula, putting a troupe of self-involved actors to the test against a fascist regime. A glamorous Penélope Cruz can't transcend spotty comedy 'The Queen of Spain' 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

A man this unstable, self-involved, uninformed, divisive and amoral — a polite word in his case — should be nowhere near the levers of power. Opinion | It is indefensible for Republicans to stick with Trump 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Trump is a child — undisciplined, capricious and self-involved. Opinion | Who’s worse for the nation — Trump or Pence? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Any woman this stupid at 38 - and oblivious to the fact that she engineered the situation - would make a terrible and self-involved mother. Can I Keep a Baby My Boyfriend Doesn’t Want? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

But Naomi’s overconfidence about the moral rightness of her goal is a curse that she is too self-involved to recognize. An excellent tale of deadly intrigue on a Greek island 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z

This seems to have come as a shock to Hayes, who comes across here as energetic, personable and self-involved. Insightful 'Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey' sheds light on 'Midnight Express' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

How do people become so self-involved that they think everyone wants to listen to their music? If I’d wanted music while hiking, I would have asked for it 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

And Cooper suggests that even our non-celebrity mourning, for those we truly knew and cared for, is starting to mirror the more self-involved and generic variety of grief. Review | The case against grieving online 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Though it’s too soon to say how Gen Z might shape the workplace, early surveys paint a portrait distinct from the wide-eyed, self-involved image of their millennial predecessors. Employers reach out to the next generation of workers: Gen Z 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

The actor also called the president a "self-involved gasbag", adding that he would be voting for Hillary Clinton because she was "wildly qualified" for the role. Grandfather comes out aged 95, and Tom Hanks treats White House reporters to coffee machine - BBC News 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

The answer is no, because the Trump we are seeing now is fully consistent with the vindictive, self-involved and scattered man we saw during the 17 months of his campaign. Opinion | Admit it: Trump is unfit to serve 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

In a tale set entirely on the island of Themyscira, Thompson’s version of the Greek princess, Diana, begins as a bratty, self-involved young woman with no one to tell her no. Time travel, slackers and Wonder Woman: the best comic books of 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

Misleading articles stated that Hanks — who supported Hillary Clinton — had pledged to vote for Trump, a man the actor described to the BBC in October as a “self-involved gas bag.” Without these ads, there wouldn’t be money in fake news 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

For fans of reality TV about preening, self-involved rich women and their hangers-on “Mariah’s World” will provide a perfectly satisfying scoop of empty entertainment calories. Welcome to her world: 'Mariah's World' offers lots of glitter but little depth 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Let’s keep that in mind the next time someone says New Yorkers are self-involved. New York Today: Giving Tuesday 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Honoree Tom Hanks, a distant ancestor of Abraham Lincoln, called Mr. Trump a “self-involved gasbag” and said Mrs. Clinton was “wildly qualified” to be president. Medal of Freedom recipients include several celebrity Trump opponents 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

As in "Sanders" and Wentworth's previous series, Starz’s delightful "Head Case," in which she played a self-involved psychiatrist to the stars, celebrities appear as themselves. Pop’s new comedy ‘Nightcap’ takes on the absurdities, rivalries of late-night TV 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Robert Weber, 92, whose elegant and witty cartoons about the privileged and the self-involved were staples of The New Yorker for 45 years, died on Oct. The week’s passages 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

As the 16-year-old aspiring writer who’s tormented by the “mean guys and phonies” at his Pennsylvania prep school, Alex Wolff is fittingly earnest and self-involved. Teen goes in search of J.D. Salinger in gentle 'Coming Through the Rye' 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a live version of World Leader Pretend, a song whose megalomaniacal, wall-building narrator originally served as a metaphor for a self-involved lover. 'Isn't anybody going to stop me?' 30 songs protesting a President Trump 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

Despite being constantly maligned in the media as a bunch of self-involved basement dwellers, this is a generation that is politically mobilized and engaged. Nobody 2016: The millennial voters are engaged, not apathetic — but the candidates are pathetic 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Being a mother or a father tends to require that we become less self-involved and more generous with others — that is, with our kids. Parenthood seems to make us unhappy. So why do we keep doing it? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

“And as morose or self-involved as it is, I felt that the only thing I could do was to go into myself a little bit.” Bon Iver: 'There are people who are into being famous. And I don’t like that' 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

In a competition too full of self-involved, preening egotists, this was the best comment of all. Reflections From Rio 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

It clarified the song, without making it seem cut-off or self-involved. Bruce Springsteen is enhanced by his openness about depression 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

It’s easy to dismiss these efforts as the hubristic, techno-utopian fantasies of a self-involved elite that believes it can defy death and human decline — and in doing so, confer even more advantages on the already-privileged. Putting a computer in your brain is no longer science fiction 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Trump is too self-involved to let any criticism go unanswered, no matter how grounded in principle. The Trumpian Purge 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Citing Trump's attacks on the Khans, Hanna called him "deeply flawed in endless ways," "unrepentant" and "self-involved." As party unease grows with Trump, Republican lawmaker says he will back Clinton 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

This man is so self-involved, and now it’s layered with this extra megalomania because he is near real power. Mark Singer: ‘Trump will continue to shoot himself in the foot’ 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z

So those between the ages of 18 and 20 today are likely to be about as self-involved as those from generations past. Why Are Some Young Americans So Narcissistic? It's the Economy, Stupid. 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

She thoroughly dominates one of the film’s finest scenes, when Bernstein confronts Wolfe over the devastating emotional cost of his casual, self-involved cruelties. Colin Firth plays the self-effacing literary editor Maxwell Perkins in ‘Genius’ 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Paul, a recovered alcoholic angling for a comeback, loves and respects Jude — that is, in his own uniquely self-involved way. 'One More Time' with Christopher Walken plays a simple tune 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

What it really shows is just how craven, self-serving and self-involved our media are. CNN’s Donald Trump disgrace: Trump coverage is the smoking gun, CNN is the corpse 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

The Oscars, instead of being preceded by the traditional round of self-involved concerns over ratings and relevance, found itself in the middle of a larger, and scarier, conversation about race. Chris Rock was once a 'risky' choice as Oscars host, but everybody's listening now 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

In trying to explain the rise of Trump, many conservatives insist that the self-involved billionaire’s unforgivable sin is his failure to be true to the conservative creed. Republican self-destruction is fun to watch, but bad for us all 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

That’s right, Drake is going to mature into an artist equally as corny, dated and self-involved as Sting. Why Sting, not Drake, should play the NBA all-star game 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

I don't care who you vote for, but don't vote for a guy whose mirror image is the young Obama—young, opinionated, inexperienced and self-involved. Marco Rubio Bets the Grand Old Party Is Ready for His Younger Face 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

He could be prideful and self-involved, like the time he crashed his manager’s press conference to curse about being denied an R.B.I. by the scorekeeper. David Ortiz Begins His Last Slow Trot Before Retirement 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Though he has all the trappings of an iconic man-child, Dev is also a legitimately nice guy attempting, in his own often quite self-involved way, to lead a meaningful life. TV Picks: 'Mom,' 'Master of None,' 'Getting On' 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Abel is introduced in 1957 Brooklyn staring into a mirror, not because he is terminally self-involved but because, as an accomplished Sunday painter, he is working on a self-portrait. In 'Bridge of Spies' Cold War thriller, Tom Hanks shines 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Dunham thanked Clinton for saying that, since young people today – like young people of almost every era – are often accused of being overly self-involved. Clinton to Dunham: 'If you can’t get excited, be pragmatic' 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

“I always wanted to write a novel, but I was too self-involved until I did journalism and could write about a world outside my head,” said Indiana. Brooklyn Book Festival: writers take on journalism, gender and policing 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

In the early '50s, the focus of attention for "Games," set in the war-torn France of 1940, was its treatment of the two children who play the self-involved games of its title. 1952's lauded 'Forbidden Games' from France remains in a class by itself 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Ricki off stage turns out to be a trouble-making pain in the neck who gets aggrieved the way only the truly self-involved can manage. Meryl Streep rocks in 'Ricki and the Flash,' but story is out of tune 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

But she is also self-involved and even infuriatingly so, and this self-involvement is, I think, a feature, not a bug, for how it conspires to show her drifting through Maycomb. Go Set a Watchman: panel review 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

But what might have been dryly self-involved steadily opens out into Chilean history and political reality. Alejandro Zambra, Latin America’s New Literary Star 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The fast-paced, occasionally stressful, often hilarious and invariably self-involved story of how it all went down is the subject of “How to Catch a Russian Spy.” How an American slacker caught a Russian spy at a New Jersey Hooters 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

To his credit, Marsden delivers even that sketchy material with scruffy, cluelessly self-involved conviction. ‘The D Train’ features a scene-stealing James Marsden in a reunion comedy 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

The gist of Mr. Hamby’s complaint is that the hyperactive metabolism of today’s media and the general lack of access to the candidates have produced a lot of shallow, self-involved reporting. Campaign Coverage via Snapchat Could Shake Up the 2016 Elections 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Millennials get a lot of grief — “self-involved” and “entitled” are among the adjectives frequently used — so it’s interesting to see how they view the rest of the world. College kids now: socially liberal gamers stressing about bucks 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

“And probably if I examined the reason for that, I would see that I want to make clear that the utterly self-involved, politically disengaged character I play on ‘Girls’ is not who I am.” Lena Dunham Is Not Done Confessing 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Ironically, the cumulative message of the self-involved Confused Cats Against Feminism to the Women Against Feminism seems to be a feminist one. Catfight at the Anti-Feminist Corral: Felines Join the Anti-Feminist Debate

When executives are excessively self-involved, he said, they may ascribe unrealistic attributes to themselves, like great strategic vision or deal-making ability, leading them to extend their domains by seeking acquisitions and wheeling and dealing rapidly. Merger Fever Can Be a Menace for Shareholders 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, they experience culture shock when they travel to the U.S. and see how Hamm’s self-involved, formerly well-off, all-business character really lives. Review - 'Million Dollar Arm' Delivers Pleasant, If Predictable, Entertainment 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Not all research points to narcissism as a in a business setting, but the question remains: What should management programs do to develop less self-involved students? Think MBA Students Are Arrogant? Blame Their Narcissistic Teachers 2014-03-05T10:56:13Z

It’s a term that has come to be viewed as a catch-all to categorize young people and sometimes incites anger when used to cast Millennials as lazy or self-involved. H&R Block Is Calling All Hipsters to Do Their Taxes 2014-03-05T15:01:48Z

In 2009, she added a second channel, featuring skits with characters like Emo Girl, a self-involved, overly emotional teenager whom Ms. Kay plays by wearing a black wig and lots of black eyeliner. Chasing Their Star, on YouTube 2014-02-01T16:27:14Z

His was an inward-turning art that appealed to a generation younger than his — one torn between communitarian ideals and a self-involved thirst for emotional and professional fulfillment. My Story: Knocking Once Again on the Poet’s Door 2014-01-31T06:00:01Z

When Irving was in his 80s, he was the most critical of Micah, calling him selfish and self-involved. My Story: For Micah’s Birthday, His Grandfather’s Blessing 2014-01-21T06:00:01Z

But, after all, we’re talking about Washington politicians, possibly the only group who is more self-involved and self-regarding than the people in my business. Sloan: Are we supposed to be grateful that Congress didn’t wreck the economy? 2013-10-18T00:33:39Z

Inconsistent, grumpy, self-involved, guilt-inducing and hard of hearing perhaps, and of course plainly annoying, as you are kind enough to remind me daily—but still reasonably good, I think. Letters From Dad: Famous Fathers Write Love Notes to Their Daughters 2013-06-14T11:50:26Z

This screechy, self-involved attitude is hardly something we need to propagate. Stop Telling Me I’ll “Change My Mind” About Wanting Kids 2013-04-17T09:45:08Z

For years I’ve been saying that self-proclaimed gurus are nothing but self-absorbed, self-centered, self-involved, self-promoters with no real self-confidence and self-esteem. 9 Ways You're Ruining Your Online Reputation 2013-01-04T15:36:28Z

The terms “self-involved” and “overly praised” are often used to describe Gen Y. But their confidence may not be as deeply engrained as it first appears. Note to Gen Y: Job Performance Matters 2012-09-28T23:35:25Z

The study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, asked 292 people to answer questions aimed at measuring how self-involved they were. Well: Does Facebook Turn People Into Narcissists? 2012-05-17T20:15:23Z

I had plenty of time in my life to have them, but I was a self-involved young man and thought I knew everything. At War Blog: Questions for General George S. Patton, Jr.'s Grandson About His Family Memoir 2012-04-02T22:01:24Z

I was so arrogant, so narcissistic, so self-involved, and it humbled me. Lives Restored: Man Uses His Schizophrenia to Gather Clues for Daily Living 2011-11-26T01:41:45Z

Bletterman Queens Whatever high ground Penn State’s trustees may have regained by firing Joe Paterno has been squandered by the appallingly self-involved rioting of Penn State students in protest of that move. In-Box: The Angry Aftermath for a Program Gone Awry 2011-11-12T18:13:54Z

Italy is in effect getting punished for the bad behavior of others, especially the wishy-washy, self-involved leaders of the euro zone. What Italy Tells Us About Europe's Debt Crisis 2011-08-24T08:33:27Z

She may seem more self-involved, introspective and spacey. Royal Wedding Weight Watch: Wispy Kate Middleton Spotlights 'Brideorexia' 2011-04-19T09:10:00Z

Without the knowledge of Mr. Sveshnikov’s harrowing, youthful travails, his work might seem like more sullen, self-involved expressionism. | New Jersey: Abstract and Expressionistic, Yet Based in Grim Reality 2011-01-15T02:32:21Z

Which means my son will be so self-involved, the only profession he can possibly have is cable news host. You Can't Spell TIME Without 'I' and 'Me'! 2010-11-29T15:50:00Z

Our everyday picture of a narcissist is that of someone who is very self-involved — the conversation is always about them. Mind: A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored 2010-11-30T17:40:00Z

The concept hovered between the genius and the absurd, which made it all the more New York, that ever-changing, self-involved metropolis. Bowlmor Lanes in Former Newsroom 2010-11-19T06:48:00Z

Some of us are too dense, too self-involved, to ask our parents and our grandparents about the meaning of life. 2010-01-22T01:30:00Z

That meant the prime target — seemingly to keep the West from looking self-involved and heartless — would be the business and personal interests of the Revolutionary Guards, a fairly invulnerable pillar of the Tehran regime. 2010-01-11T12:23:00Z

Young visionaries, to whom just so much of insight had been imparted as to make life all a labyrinth around them, came to seek the clue that should guide them out of their self-involved bewilderment. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I

He stood immovable, pale, cold, and self-involved, like a being from another sphere. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author

She was not one of those self-involved women always studying their own emotions; she was simply true to the light within her. Winter Evening Tales

There was silence for a moment, and one after another met my roving glance with a thoughtful, self-involved and retrospective eye. Twelve Men

He cultivated an Indian's self-involved and deliberate vacancy. Nightfall

Doctor Levillier, glancing from him to Julian, found him self-involved in remembrances of Rip and Valentine. Flames

He was early a member of Brook Farm—a solitary, self-involved person, preferring to associate with children rather than with older persons. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis

In this condition he affords an excellent example of a self-involved philosopher, defending himself from the annoyance of the world by a stoical crustiness, and seeking all his enjoyment within his own centre. Journal of an African Cruiser

That saying about levelling upward, and not downward, may seem very fine to those who cannot see its self-involved absurdity. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War

Both are absent and self-involved, both live out of themselves in a world of imagination. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

She was firm and open —he irresolute and self-involved. Sandra Belloni — Volume 5

单词	self-involved
例句	self-involved “I'm an only child. Can't you tell by how adorably self-involved I am?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He’s good-looking, with those brown curls and those eyes and that body, and he can get a little cocky, a little self-involved, but Annabelle and everyone else forgive him for it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I didn't want him to be self-involved and distant like the stoner boys I pined for in high school. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z “Artists always seem so self-involved. Everything is about their art.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The camera crew got sidetracked at a table of shellfish, and the couples dancing around us are either too drunk or too self-involved to notice. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “He was too busy being adorably self-involved to notice,” Hassan interjected. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The second act is much stronger, mainly because Norris seems on firmer ground satirizing his contemporaries — the self-involved, self-consciously liberal yuppies busily going over plans for the neighborhood’s renovation. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z At 45, she works for a nonprofit organization that provides food to poor children, and she is about as self-conscious, self-involved and self-questioning a person as you’re likely to meet. ‘Class’ Takes Satirical Aim at Brooklyn Grade-School Parents 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z I like the Rolling Stones, but I like them a little less now that I’ve read Keith Richards’ Life, which I found bumptious and self-involved. Paint a Vulgar Picture: A Fan’s Notes on a Biography of The Smiths 2013-01-16T13:00:19Z You might note their air of distraction, or be curious about the self-involved happiness they radiate, but decorum dictates you return your gaze to the iPhone or the blur through the train window. ‘When January Feels Like Summer,’ at Ensemble Studio Theater 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z He is shown as an Ugly American stereotype: loud, self-involved, inarticulate and inordinately proud of his four seemingly hyperactive children. Movie Review: ‘The Second Meeting,’ a Documentary by Zeljko Mirkovic 2013-05-10T01:16:47Z Mourning the loss of his ghost pal and suffering emo-hysterics after the train massacre, Mitchell is even more self-involved and tortured than usual – hence his decision to cross over and get her back. Being Human: Series three, episode one 2011-01-23T22:34:00Z It was just two hours of beautiful people representing every shade of brown, sporting their best Y2K wear, thriving professionally and being decadently self-involved to the beat of a neo-soul soundtrack. A New ‘Best Man’ Gives Equal Time to the Women 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Yes, there are obstacles, but it turns out that the biggest one is not an unexpected pregnancy or even a failed MFA experience but her relationship with the self-involved, volatile Amy. Review: ‘Friendship,’ by Emily Gould But the contrast Rambert draws between this self-involved sourpuss and a good girl like Delia is a brilliant way of making you think about performance. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z All of “Girls”’ characters are too self-involved to really feel anything for anyone else, and that’s because as creations, they don’t have much life outside of the show’s requirements. The “Girls” wedding from hell: Is Lena Dunham torturing her characters or us? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z In her account, he comes off as wildly insensitive and self-involved — at one point he calls her "a bad investment" — but also charismatic and brilliant. Padma Lakshmi explains why she left her knives packed when writing 'Love, Loss, and What We Ate' 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z It is also not known whether it would be as effective in detaching from other negative emotions, such as guilt or embarrassment, which are more inherently self-involved, says Yang. How can you conquer ordinary, everyday sadness? Think of it as a person 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z “I think that it comes with the territory when you’re in the business — you tend to be a little self-involved,” he said. Lindsey Buckingham Has Survived It All 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z “How could you be so self-involved as to not see someone you care about when they’re standing right in front of you?” A Daughter, Her Father and the Long-Gone Poet Who Brought Them Together 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The daughter in that film, played by Meryl Streep, clearly resents her self-involved movie-star mother, who infantilizes but also cares fiercely for her while she is in recovery. Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, a Mother-Daughter Act for the Ages 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z She meets her nasty, trailer-trash mother this year, finds a connection with her and actually finds – in her weird, self-involved Jenna way – a perfect boyfriend. Enter stage write 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z Heyns draws James with an affectionate hand, as quirky and verbose and brilliant as we would wish, equal parts self-involved and kind. Taking dictation from Henry James was a lesson in style — and patience 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Norma loses it publicly and calls the self-involved mayor of White Pine Bay a word that can't be printed in a family newspaper because he devalues her? Delving deep for Norma's voice on 'Bates Motel' 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z What she came up with centered on a struggling, self-involved actress, Kate, putting on an autobiographical solo show, a vanity project. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z On season eight, Ms. Del Toro and her self-involved outbursts became a narrative of the show’s early episodes, and a huge liability. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol': Hollywood Week 2011-02-11T22:00:52Z Except: there is something ominously self-involved about this hybrid thing. The Voraciousness and Oddity of Dora Maar’s Pictures 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z In a time when many claim children are apathetic and self-involved, here is a girl who has put her life on hold to try to save the world. I was cynical about Greta Thunberg’s voyage, but she’s upsetting all the right people \| Romesh Ranganathan 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z That’s something that revealing herself to be a self-involved woman with familiar, typical desires does not change. How Marina Abramovic's memoir does and doesn't illuminate the artist's work 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z As a concept, that sounds cloying and self-involved, but if Adlon ever dangles her storylines close to those edges, she yanks them right back with a pithy line, or another abrupt end to a scene. Better Things gets better: Pamela Adlon triumphs without Louis CK 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z And these very self-involved and very beautiful girls are evolving in the only way the self-involved can, very slowly. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z “And such an amazing foil for Albus, who is tortured and self-involved.” How Much Magic Can ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Make on Broadway? 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z That promise is paradoxical: In offering a pull-no-punches satire of self-involved humans, it is nevertheless filled with pity for their disappointments. ‘Intelligent Life’ Review: Cecily Strong’s ‘Awerobics’ Workout 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z OK, Hathaway's bespectacled, "alternative," gamine-but-serious Emma is working in a Mexican restaurant while Sturgess' intolerably self-involved upper-class toff, Dexter, travels the world in bad chinos and a Flock of Seagulls haircut, doing French girls. "One Day": A gimmicky, misbegotten love story 2011-08-18T17:19:00Z Its characters are self-involved but also self-aware, their dilemmas reflecting how identity, addiction, the #MeToo movement and other modern hot-button issues permeate their personal and professional lives. The Cast of ‘The Bold Type’ on Staying Current 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z The shadows of "the war of 1940" intrude on two later stories focusing on self-involved men: a Uruguayan bon vivant in Europe in "The Spectator" and a wealthy collector in "Monsieur Rose." Ir?ne N?mirovsky: the life of and new work by the author of 'Suite Fran?aise' 2010-05-05T22:07:00Z Her mom is totally self-involved to the point of neglect. Perspective \| Carolyn Hax: A troubled stepdaughter, an often-deployed dad and a stepmom in over her head 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Women may indeed be drawn to lazy, self-involved role models because they are weary of trying in a world that conflates effort with equality. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z The Noah here is different too–still handsome, but more self-involved, less noble. Review: The Affair: More Than Meets the "I" 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Hanks, who previously referred to Donald Trump as “a self-involved gasbag” and publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton, spoke about the importance of still respecting the US. Tom Hanks on the election result: 'America has been in worse places' 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Some parents, fed up by their slacker, self-involved friends, are taking drastic action. Family Matters: The Godparent Trap 2010-05-28T22:39:00Z As the first Kyrie section begins, roiling, boisterous activity fills the orchestra, while the choir enters above it with calm, hovering harmonies: the heavens gazing down on the ceaseless, self-involved bustle of earth. Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum Perform a Mass 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Calling actors self-involved is, true or not, a relatively easy joke. SAG Awards 2015: 'Birdman' noms find actors supporting actors 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z “For some reason, I think that he has some information for me that I need to know. I think I have this weird void because my father was this angry, detached, self-involved dude.” Lots of Love for Garry Shandling 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Being a ballerina is very self-involved, and our family at City Ballet is one of the best there is. Georgina Pazcoguin on Her First Broadway Opening Night, in ‘Cats’ 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Women advocating for their own success are perceived as bossy or self-involved, Sandberg says, and so they should instead argue that their success will benefit the greater good. Perspective \| The revolutionary strategy hidden in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Instagram feed 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z In Bernstein’s later years, he was too great and too self-involved to be edited. Perspective \| Too much Bernstein leaves a critic fed up with his music 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Yet this problem of dramatic incongruity appears strangely relevant to the current moment; the intensely self-involved preoccupations of the élite operatic characters render them blind to the casual ferocity of the hard-drinking, war-loving chorus. Opera and Brexit in London 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z To avoid being self-involved or trying to do what the icon was doing. Diana Krall on Tony Bennett: ‘You Can’t Step Into His Dream’ 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z As a personality, Nico is often portrayed in the movie as obstinate, self-involved, paranoid, and reckless. Nico 1988: the film about the Velvet Underground's doomed singer 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Either Nicolas is so self-involved that he doesn’t notice their adoration, or he takes it as his due. \| 'Heartbeats': Three to a Bed, but No Funny Stuff 2011-02-25T01:16:10Z The question is posed: Are the characters waking up from their self-involved and misanthropic ways? ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Returns, and a New Day Begins 2014-01-13T04:00:22Z In his original endorsement, Franzen went on to link Lerner's novel to the case of the Swedish academician who, a few years ago, attacked American writing as insular and self-involved. Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner – review 2012-07-12T07:07:54Z A Girl Like Her hints at Avery’s torment through awkward encounters with her self-involved mother and unresponsive father. Can a Movie Fix Bullying-Related Suicide? 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z But some is the particular milieu of the extremely bougie New York parent—perhaps the most uniquely self-involved group on the planet. “Louie” and the walking uterus: When ugly liberal entitlement and surrogate pregnancy collide 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z By creating one of the most blithely self-involved, unfiltered, socially maniacal protagonists on television, David has contributed a lot to the cause of human happiness, even if that happiness is mainly of the Schadenfreude variety. Festival Dispatch: Life Lessons from Larry David 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s a decision that will fling the lives of her self-involved cabal hither and thither, like raindrops being shaken off an umbrella. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z And with its self-consciously self-involved hero, who happens to suffer from all of these woes, The Double describes—and aptly explains—the experiential anxieties of modern social media. Tweets from underground: How Dostoevsky anticipated social media 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z But the result was awkward, certainly squandering momentum and making the next generation seem rather self-involved. Woody Guthrie’s Star-Studded 100th Birthday Party 2012-10-15T16:43:47Z And then with Max, it's why he has become so hardened to life and why he is so focused and self-involved and narcissistic and finding interesting reasons so that they become some way sympathetic. PBS' "Guilt" examines what happens to estranged brothers after they finally bond over killing someon 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z "Gary has been a uniquely selfish and self-involved actor, even by actor standards," Cox says. Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great 2012-02-09T18:59:00Z Instead she goes to Gene Cousineau, who's not a licensed therapist, to explore her trauma in front of a room full of also self-involved acting students. "Barry" star Sarah Goldberg loves playing her unlikable role: "Make her a monster. I'm all for it" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z The insightful if slightly self-involved “Documented” tells the story of his decision to speak up and the days of despair and optimism that followed. ‘Documented’: Personal link enriches look at immigration 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z While Klausner herself is an ardent feminist, her TV id is considerably less self-aware and more self-involved. Feminism can be funny too: Julie Klausner and season 3 of “Difficult People” on Hulu 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Presley's own contradictions were similar to the country's as it hurtled through a difficult and self-involved decade. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Thornhill’s book is an often self-involved account of a Westerner’s transient and shallow stroll among people whose lives and histories she fails to grasp. Personal Stories From the Refugee Experience 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Olds has sometimes being criticized for being self-involved, for narcissism run amok. Sharon Olds, Laureate of Sexuality, Scrutinizes the Body in ‘Odes’ 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But the danger is to create or do things that are too self-involved. The Carpetbagger: France's Oscar Hopes Depend on Its Health-Care System 2012-01-17T19:58:32Z Roger, who works in the film business, may seem callous and self-involved at first. Movie Review: ?A Simple Life,? Directed by Ann Hui 2012-04-12T21:40:33Z It’s just a fun little show about some self-involved idiots, like dozens of other shows before it. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z But the current pop moment is more splintered and self-involved. Music Review: ‘Bringing Human Rights Home’ at Barclays Center 2014-02-06T23:46:07Z “They have not evolved or become less self-involved,” she said. Power gays and pussy hats, but 'Will & Grace' puts funny first 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “It almost reminds me of someone from, like, high school. He’s very boyish. But living in LA the last 20 years, do you know how many delusional, narcissistic, self-involved people there are?” says Rex. Serendipity strikes for Simon Rex as an adult-film antihero 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Make way for a group of self-involved Broadway performers, swooping in to save the day — and get publicity — through song and dance. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Robert Weber, whose elegant and witty cartoons about the privileged and the self-involved were staples of The New Yorker for 45 years, died on Oct. Robert Weber Dies at 92; His New Yorker Cartoons Twitted the Overprivileged 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z I tell myself I am too self-involved and not practical enough, immature and lazy. 'I feel bombarded with to-dos': the hell of life admin – and how to get on top 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Hanks, who publicly endorsed Hillary Clinton, has previously referred to Trump as “a self-involved gasbag” but said recently that “America has been in worse places” and was still “the greatest country in the world”. Tom Hanks sends espresso machine to help White House press fight for truth 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Like, these characters have to be very self-involved and insular, just for this story to work. Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z Their North Star, Irene, played by Parker Posey, is a moderately successful and immoderately self-involved actress who is “theater famous, not famous famous.” Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z The former "Friends" star portrays Ben Donovan, a self-involved, womanizing manager of a busy sports arena in the upcoming ABC comedy called "Mr. Sunshine," which he also helped write and executive produced. Matthew Perry returning to TV as "selfish jerk" 2010-08-01T21:53:00Z "Other people take great offence to it, as if she doesn't understand that she's commenting on the mistakes that people make, about girls who feel self-entitled and are experimenting in a self-involved way." Judd Apatow: 'There's a narcissism to my characters' 2013-02-16T06:00:00Z But the play’s overwhelming sense of the woman is: flippant, profane, superficial and painfully self-involved. \| 'Woman Before a Glass': She Loved Herself, Yes, but She Also Loved Art 2011-05-20T02:05:01Z It was amusing how these self-involved singers took the time to share with us their internal experience of each number, and their sweet thank yous effectively tied off each comic segment. DanceNow Festival Keeps Performances Short and Snappy 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z And yet, a couple of times a year, a song penetrates through the self-involved clutter. Albums by Mary Lambert, Nico & Vinz and Angaleena Presley 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z “Girls’ sadness is not passive, self-involved, or shallow,” she told the magazine Dazed. The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z “I think I get neurotic — anything like that will mean it’s somehow self-involved.” Spike Jonze, Cinema’s Big Kid, Gets a New Playground 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Braden began thinking about how Americans viewed these films — "the French films were very pretentious and self-involved." Garfield High grad wins Internet Cat Video Film Festival 2012-09-02T04:41:23Z The interlopers from New York are self-involved and conventional despite the mantle of hipness they try to wear. ‘No Place Like Home’ Review: Self-Discovery in Jamaica 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z “They have not evolved or become less self-involved,” she said. Power gays and pussy hats, but 'Will & Grace' puts funny first 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “At face value he appears to be vain, self-involved and shallow — yuppie,” he said. Peter Scolari, ‘Newhart’ and ‘Girls’ Actor, Is Dead at 66 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Or self-involved divas who get their comeuppance, then mournfully peruse the Barbra Streisand songbook for succor? Riff: How Football Players Got Trounced by ?Glee? 2011-06-03T12:00:00Z In “The Hedges,” a self-involved young couple at a resort, burdened by their needy toddler, abandon him to the care of a kind but distracted 12-year-old, with disastrous results. Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z She has always been too self-involved and insufficiently self-aware to turn her life into art. 6 Ways ‘Girls’ Changed Television. Or Didn’t. 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z I like this character, though, because she seems to be as maniacally intuitive as she is self-involved. 'The Affair' Recap: Do Noah and Alison Have Chemistry? 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Usually, when performers sharing a stage all seem to be on different, self-involved wavelengths, it’s a disaster of disconnection. ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Handled Properly, Ages Well 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z “All any of you care about is yourselves,” the self-involved doctor complains. Books of The Times: A Devil Who Takes the Side of Angels 2010-02-25T00:18:00Z Three hours later, she’ll be in tears and in between will present Martha in all her seductive, destructive, childish, self-involved fury. A scintillating ‘Virginia Woolf’ with a scalding Holly Twyford 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z It seems almost too perfect a fit for Rob McElhenney, who – as self-involved beefcake Mac – comes up with similarly outlandish and amoral plans in every single episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. After Chris Pratt’s galactic triumph, which other sitcom stars should become heroes? 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z Tory of the Express pegs Joyce as "just a bit crazy, eccentric, self-obsessed and self-involved and manipulative, and barking mad, probably." Tabloid: The Honey Blonde and the 'Manacled Mormon' 2011-07-14T21:10:00Z "The situation is so dire that it caused me, a lazy, self-involved, generally self-medicated man-child to start an entire charity organization," he said. Seth Rogen, Ben Affleck in US Senate 2014-02-27T10:10:44Z Booze flowed, egos bloomed and, in a room full of self-involved poets, Eberhart “always was his own favorite subject.” In Two Memoirs, the Scars of Childhood Trauma Run Deep 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Even though I recognize its flaws, such as lack of diversity, I still love its thorny, self-involved, often unlikable characters, who no matter what transpires seem to float in a constant state of Saturn Returns. Let me be misunderstood: The final episode of HBO’s “Girls” and how we really feel about Hannah Horvath 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z This yields a remarkably unflattering portrait of a complicated, extremely self-involved woman. In ‘Rachel, Monique,’ Sophie Calle Eulogizes Her Mother 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Was she anxious about possibly being called self-involved or narcissistic? There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z A filmmaker with a toymaker’s heart, Jeunet delights in seeding his movies with eccentric, often menacing gadgets, so it’s no surprise that his wayward androids are more enjoyable than his self-involved human characters. ‘Bigbug’ Review: Rise of the Machines 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The primary through-emotion of the conference attendees — if not the more fiery presenters — wasn’t hatred but a lost, if somewhat self-involved, sadness. Men’s rights activists, gathering to discuss all the ways society has done them wrong Are you optimistic that a comedy about self-involved hipsters can connect with people? Alia Shawkat on Going From 'Sassy Teen' to the Lead in Search Party 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z With his buzz cut, full beard and imposing physique, the man is arrogant and self-involved. Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Pressly's best exchanges are with Walter, playing a warmer variation on the self-involved, difficult mothers she played on "Arrested Development" and plays on "Archer." 'Jennifer Falls' on TV Land plays it safe 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z But Sally is still the same self-involved spotlight hunter that Bill Hader's assassin Barry met in the first season, when he's immediately struck by her talent for making fake emotions seem real. "Barry" star Sarah Goldberg loves playing her unlikable role: "Make her a monster. I'm all for it" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z In one scene, the wildly self-involved protagonist fantasizes about her own funeral. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The Almeida is home to an honorable but unsatisfying adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s 1961 film “Through a Glass Darkly,” a study in the impact of one woman’s schizophrenia on her self-involved family. London Theater Journal: Finding My Way in the Dark 2010-07-27T18:42:00Z At times these confessedly selfish and self-involved folks seem to be working up material for a self-help book called “He’s Just Not That Into Thee.” 2010-01-15T04:13:00Z And I actually found him more interesting this season, because in Season 1, he was kind of a classically silly Austen character, this hypochondriac who just talked a lot and was self-involved. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z “Our characters have to be self-involved and focused on their own problems.” On HBO’s ‘Girls,’ a Kitty Genovese Plot Proves Eerily Timed 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z This is about being too immature or self-involved to recognize how his behavior affects and hurts his partner’s feelings. Perspective \| Ask Amy: Longtime partner’s online gaming leads to more 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Or is she too self-involved to expend that much energy on anyone else? Books of The Times: In ‘After I’m Gone,’ One Man Leaves Many Questions 2014-02-16T22:04:16Z When later in the play he is called upon to expose the extent of Charles' self-involved nature, the exhibition he puts on is something of shock. Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z You look back, a lot of it was kind of portentous and self-involved, but we were doing our best. Can Physical Comedy Work on Zoom? Bill Irwin Wants to Find Out 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z In the sleeper 2017 horror hit "Happy Death Day" self-involved college student Tree similarly found herself repeatedly reliving a fatal natal day. The cosmic joke's on her: The antiheroine's journey through a cursed universe 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z Now I remember why I didn’t keep in touch: She’s gloomy and self-involved. Our Teen Houseguest Seems to Be Stealing Stuff 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The inhabitants of the graveyard are hopelessly self-involved, but the book transcends their narrow purview. The Irish Novel That’s So Good People Were Scared to Translate It 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Peggy could also be described, less generously, as grotesquely self-involved and lacking empathy. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 4: Winter Is Coming 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “There’s an optimism in that, and also a child, sleeping next to a mom, and such a stubborn, rebellious, self-involved, not-thinking-big-picture, narrow-minded, shortsighted human — that all was very exciting and came together in that moment.” When broken is beautiful: How Kathryn Hahn and show creators built 'Tiny Beautiful Things' 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z There are really two movies happening here: one, a cat-and-mouse game between two manipulative schemers; and another that skewers self-involved, “anything for a click” influencers. Review: The adventures of young LeBron James prove stubbornly undramatic in 'Shooting Stars' 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Somewhere along the line, however, Kerr gained a central forgiving insight into Green: His constant need to skirmish is not self-involved; it’s a need to prove self-worth. Perspective \| The fascinating partnership that keeps the Warriors together 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Marsden, whose Hollywood credits include “27 Dresses” and the “Sonic the Hedgehog” movies, turned into what he calls a “very entitled, self-involved version of James Marsden” — a vain actor, eager for attention. When a reality TV show about jury duty is a summons to laugh 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Maybe, on the other hand, the prosecution will make Trump’s candidacy even more self-involved and unappealing than before. Opinion \| Trump’s indictment will warp our politics for years to come 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z The other thing is, I get to hold up to nature the insane self-involved hypocrisy of artists and what they think they’re allowed to do on occasion, just my opinion.” Apologize for 'Tropic Thunder'? Not Ben Stiller. He's 'proud' of the Hollywood spoof 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Of course, it helps significantly that, as David Frum wrote in the Atlantic, Trump was provoked by Biden's speech into a "monstrously self-involved meltdown." Biden's speech worked: MAGA is now on notice 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The film is at its most biting when it satirizes a certain self-involved obliviousness. Review: 'France' showcases Léa Seydoux as a guilt-ridden TV journalist 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Bergman, who romanced his leading ladies and strip mined his personal demons for material, was hardly the least self-involved of European auteurs, and Hansen-Løve has fittingly responded with her own teasing display of meta-effrontery. Review: Mia Hansen-Løve's captivating 'Bergman Island' lures us into a maze of meta-mirrors 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Convolutedly self-involved, he perversely embraces his “daily shame” as a way to connect with “the sufferings of Christ.” Jonathan Franzen kicks off a new trilogy with his brilliant latest novel, ‘Crossroads’ 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z In that instant, what was previously a matter of self-involved fabulosity for Jamie morphs into what he realizes is something with a lineage and profound political meaning: in his words, “a revolution.” Review \| A teen dreams of being a drag queen in the glossy movie musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z That leaves Bettany, charming in a Marvel series that became less interesting as time went along, and Grant’s deliciously shifty turn as the self-involved cad in “The Undoing.” Emmys 2021 limited series predictions: 'Mare of Easttown' looks primed for big wins 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z “When writing about her own life, Cusk often sounds depressed, and appears not so much selfish as self-involved,” wrote the reviewer of Cusk’s memoir, “Afterlife,” in theNew York Times Book Review. D.H. Lawrence hated women writers. Now they get to speak 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z She pretends she’s someone else when she’s around her self-involved husband, then gets angry at him for not knowing her better. Review \| Dark comedy ‘Physical’ is a deliciously sour cocktail of sweat, tears and female aspiration 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Their show remains one of the most popular in Southern California, ready to be mobilized against the governor they depict as a self-involved lightweight. How three political novices with turbulent pasts helped spark the Newsom recall 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Voters can expect to see Gardner juxtapose the candidates in an attempt to portray Hickenlooper as a self-involved politician. Colorado prepares for contentious Senate debate: Here's what to expect 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The most lively moments of “On the Rocks” don't belong to Jones or Murray but to Jenny Slate, who pops up throughout the film as an amusingly self-involved mom-friend of Laura’s. Review \| ‘On the Rocks’ has all the right ingredients: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Sofia Coppola. But it’s a flavorless dish. 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Stevens is self-involved while presenting as a sensitive guy, White a barely-holding-it-together rage-aholic and Brie a people pleaser more determined than she seems. Review: Dave Franco's 'The Rental' is an indecisive tale of a bummer vacation 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z We’re all self-involved and insecure and limited by our personal experience and it shows. White celebs amplify Black Lives Matter with mixed results 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z A deadpan prose stylist with a keen ear for the absurdly self-involved dialogue that emanates from neurosis, Friedman was, at his best, a savage social satirist. This week’s passages 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z If you choose the honorable path — for our four heroes are, on their own self-involved terms, honorable people — you will come to the perfect ending, of several possible. The best way through Netflix's interactive 'Kimmy Schmidt' special? Sympathy 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Sober for 31 years, Valentine says that exploring those moments all these years later, when she herself now has a teenage daughter, illuminated the ways in which each Go-Go’s bandmate was struggling and self-involved. Kathy Valentine's hair-raising memoir 'All I Ever Wanted' recounts the Go-Go's wild ride 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z On “Saturday Night Live,” Will Ferrell played the Actors Studio host as verbose, self-involved and prone to making grandiose claims about forgettable careers and praising a guest’s banalities as wisdom. James Lipton, host of ‘Inside the Actors Studio,’ dies at 93 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z As the House impeachment managers were chronicling President Trump’s self-involved corruption, a group of mayors made another convincing case against Trump — without ever mentioning his name. Opinion \| Trump’s selfishness harms you, too 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z By refocusing on grass-roots activism and supporting local leaders, the new board is responding to long-standing criticism that the organization had become too self-involved, while ignoring the national network of activists it has inspired. The Women’s March will host a week of events in D.C. ahead of its fourth annual protest 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The show also sees Robert spending time with three different girlfriends, who jointly denounce their shared self-involved love interest in the perky tune “You Could Drive a Person Crazy.” The importance of Adam Driver singing 'Being Alive' in 'Marriage Story' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z It offered hope that politics might, someday, be about more than the antics of a self-involved, corrupt and out-of-control chief executive. Opinion \| A debate that actually covered the issues? This time, we don't have to imagine. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Early social media posts — including one in which he broadcast a trip to the dentist — reinforced an impression that he was self-involved and lacked substance. Beto O’Rourke quits presidential race amid financial strains and lagging popularity 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z “I was just really self-involved at the time — like so many young people — but I was also on TV where every perceived flaw is amplified.” Heidi Montag admits she got plastic surgery because of Internet trolls 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Yet even these self-involved people, perhaps especially these self-involved people, are prone to wondering how to best navigate the numerous shoals of our volatile world. Review: ‘Non-Fiction’ is a smart and sassy French romantic comedy 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Over the course of 22 films, the MCU has become increasingly insular, complicated, and self-involved. The MCU should have taken more time with the Avengers 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Tinseltown has never seen such self-involved snobbery from so many superficial frauds. Olivier Knox and the crybaby meltdown at White House Correspondents’ Association dinner 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z If all this sounds kind of self-involved — well, that can be a tricky charge for performance art to defend. John Kelly resurrects his past lives: dancer, filmmaker, drag performer and so much more 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z Despite that, the actors are terrific, particularly Cary, whose Audrey is so narcissistic and self-involved we should detest her rather than root for her every step of the way as we do. Review: In Nicky Silver's ‘Too Much Sun,’ family follies on the Cape 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z She said she wants to counter the self-involved attitude of her generation and make her peers understand that giving feels good. ‘I want caring to be cool’ — one woman’s Instagram-driven effort to help the homeless 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “Britain,” the magazine belatedly lamented last month, “is governed by a self-involved clique that rewards group membership above competence and self-confidence above expertise.” Opinion \| The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z In newly leaked audio, reportedly from a Dec. 16 stand-up performance, the comedian referred to trans people and the shooting survivors as part of a larger joke about younger generations being hopelessly self-involved. Louis C.K. sparks new backlash for jokes about trans people, Parkland shooting survivors 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z Or “Great Expectations,” the puzzling account of an American woman who becomes a surrogate mother qua partner to a self-involved divorcée and her adolescent daughter. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The plural “we” is useful, too, with its implied feedback from loved ones, for those worried that “I” might register as too self-involved — even for someone aspiring to the world’s most important job. For 2020 Democrats, There’s a Lot of ‘Thinking About It’ 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The plural “we” is useful, too, with its implied feedback from loved ones, for those worried that “I” might register as too self-involved, even for someone aspiring to the world’s most important job. For Democrats considering the White House, a lot of ‘thinking about it’ 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z And so they do, gathering together a band of similarly clueless and self-involved fellow-actors to eradicate red-state homophobia and help heal the country’s political divide through the power of song and dance. The Disturbing Resonance of Bertolt Brecht’s “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z The baritone Christopher Maltman was similarly agile as Mark: he brought a vacant, self-involved air to his rapt Act II aria, in which he compares Marnie to a startled deer. Nico Muhly Escapes Hitchcock with a “Marnie” Opera 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z It would be too self-involved, too painful, she felt, to focus on herself when thousands of women and children were still in captivity and suffering horrors like her own. Review: Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad takes the spotlight in documentary 'On Her Shoulders' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z But the performances, particularly Danielsen Lie’s icily self-involved killer, are suitably intense. Review \| The director of three ‘Bourne’ movies turns to a different kind of film: A real-life massacre 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z For these self-involved politicos and pundits, the last election always seems to be the one that signaled the end of history. Opinion \| Trump finally feels gravity’s unforgiving pull 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Heck, for a minute, even LaVar Ball tried to run the Lakers, and that lasted until his oldest son started clanking shots and his self-involved act turned into a clown show. LeBron James must now deliver the title Lakers fans expect to finalize his legacy 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z “She’s always been strangely self-involved. I don’t feel like either of them were really capable of any kind of love,” he says. Marc Maron: ‘I’m familiar with coke, anger, bullying, selfishness’ 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z The thing about Chozick’s memoir, though, is that it’s also about being self-involved. Review \| Amy Chozick covered Hillary Clinton for a decade. Here’s what she learned — and what she endured. 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z On paper, sour, unpleasant, self-involved Ben Ryder is a familiar personality, maybe too familiar. Netflix's 'Kodachrome' reminds that Ed Harris can make standard roles transcendent 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z “Two, I think he’s sanctimonious. And three, he’s very self-involved. And let me unpack those.” James Comey treads fine line as book set to turn up heat on Trump 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z All of which should have been cause for Mr. Trump to let the dismissal speak for itself, but the President is too self-involved for such restraint. The McCabe March Madness 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s remarkable how sealed off from reality this self-involved snake pit has become. Opinion \| A groundswell for sanity 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Parker’s seemingly genuine curiosity defies the stereotype of the self-involved actor but also serves her well in the profession, particularly as the star and hands-on executive producer of “Divorce,” which returns to HBO on Sunday. Sarah Jessica Parker brings her innate curiosity — and a touch of optimism — to Season 2 of 'Divorce' 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z In fact, artists who didn’t have anything to say about the world struggled: Taylor Swift came back with a single that was all about her, and was roundly sniffed at for being too self-involved. 2017: the year in pop culture 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z These are blocked by self-involved spectacle and ruthless attacks against any who raise their voices to criticize the president. Opinion \| What Trump did to Kelly shows how far we have fallen 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z On the other is a self-involved bully who spends much of his time belittling those who dare oppose him. Opinion \| Hillary Clinton tweets up a reminder of why more Americans chose her 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z But, all in all, he is not a bad guy to begin with, just a little rumpled and sad and self-involved. 'Kevin (Probably) Saves the World,' but is he funny? 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Reuniting many of the characters from 1998’s “The Girl of Your Dreams,” Trueba attempts to duplicate its winning formula, putting a troupe of self-involved actors to the test against a fascist regime. A glamorous Penélope Cruz can't transcend spotty comedy 'The Queen of Spain' 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z A man this unstable, self-involved, uninformed, divisive and amoral — a polite word in his case — should be nowhere near the levers of power. Opinion \| It is indefensible for Republicans to stick with Trump 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Trump is a child — undisciplined, capricious and self-involved. Opinion \| Who’s worse for the nation — Trump or Pence? 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z Any woman this stupid at 38 - and oblivious to the fact that she engineered the situation - would make a terrible and self-involved mother. Can I Keep a Baby My Boyfriend Doesn’t Want? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z But Naomi’s overconfidence about the moral rightness of her goal is a curse that she is too self-involved to recognize. An excellent tale of deadly intrigue on a Greek island 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z This seems to have come as a shock to Hayes, who comes across here as energetic, personable and self-involved. Insightful 'Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey' sheds light on 'Midnight Express' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z How do people become so self-involved that they think everyone wants to listen to their music? If I’d wanted music while hiking, I would have asked for it 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z And Cooper suggests that even our non-celebrity mourning, for those we truly knew and cared for, is starting to mirror the more self-involved and generic variety of grief. Review \| The case against grieving online 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Though it’s too soon to say how Gen Z might shape the workplace, early surveys paint a portrait distinct from the wide-eyed, self-involved image of their millennial predecessors. Employers reach out to the next generation of workers: Gen Z 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z The actor also called the president a "self-involved gasbag", adding that he would be voting for Hillary Clinton because she was "wildly qualified" for the role. Grandfather comes out aged 95, and Tom Hanks treats White House reporters to coffee machine - BBC News 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z The answer is no, because the Trump we are seeing now is fully consistent with the vindictive, self-involved and scattered man we saw during the 17 months of his campaign. Opinion \| Admit it: Trump is unfit to serve 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z In a tale set entirely on the island of Themyscira, Thompson’s version of the Greek princess, Diana, begins as a bratty, self-involved young woman with no one to tell her no. Time travel, slackers and Wonder Woman: the best comic books of 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Misleading articles stated that Hanks — who supported Hillary Clinton — had pledged to vote for Trump, a man the actor described to the BBC in October as a “self-involved gas bag.” Without these ads, there wouldn’t be money in fake news 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z For fans of reality TV about preening, self-involved rich women and their hangers-on “Mariah’s World” will provide a perfectly satisfying scoop of empty entertainment calories. Welcome to her world: 'Mariah's World' offers lots of glitter but little depth 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Let’s keep that in mind the next time someone says New Yorkers are self-involved. New York Today: Giving Tuesday 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Honoree Tom Hanks, a distant ancestor of Abraham Lincoln, called Mr. Trump a “self-involved gasbag” and said Mrs. Clinton was “wildly qualified” to be president. Medal of Freedom recipients include several celebrity Trump opponents 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z As in "Sanders" and Wentworth's previous series, Starz’s delightful "Head Case," in which she played a self-involved psychiatrist to the stars, celebrities appear as themselves. Pop’s new comedy ‘Nightcap’ takes on the absurdities, rivalries of late-night TV 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Robert Weber, 92, whose elegant and witty cartoons about the privileged and the self-involved were staples of The New Yorker for 45 years, died on Oct. The week’s passages 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z As the 16-year-old aspiring writer who’s tormented by the “mean guys and phonies” at his Pennsylvania prep school, Alex Wolff is fittingly earnest and self-involved. Teen goes in search of J.D. Salinger in gentle 'Coming Through the Rye' 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s a live version of World Leader Pretend, a song whose megalomaniacal, wall-building narrator originally served as a metaphor for a self-involved lover. 'Isn't anybody going to stop me?' 30 songs protesting a President Trump 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Despite being constantly maligned in the media as a bunch of self-involved basement dwellers, this is a generation that is politically mobilized and engaged. Nobody 2016: The millennial voters are engaged, not apathetic — but the candidates are pathetic 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z Being a mother or a father tends to require that we become less self-involved and more generous with others — that is, with our kids. Parenthood seems to make us unhappy. So why do we keep doing it? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z “And as morose or self-involved as it is, I felt that the only thing I could do was to go into myself a little bit.” Bon Iver: 'There are people who are into being famous. And I don’t like that' 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z In a competition too full of self-involved, preening egotists, this was the best comment of all. Reflections From Rio 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z It clarified the song, without making it seem cut-off or self-involved. Bruce Springsteen is enhanced by his openness about depression 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s easy to dismiss these efforts as the hubristic, techno-utopian fantasies of a self-involved elite that believes it can defy death and human decline — and in doing so, confer even more advantages on the already-privileged. Putting a computer in your brain is no longer science fiction 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump is too self-involved to let any criticism go unanswered, no matter how grounded in principle. The Trumpian Purge 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Citing Trump's attacks on the Khans, Hanna called him "deeply flawed in endless ways," "unrepentant" and "self-involved." As party unease grows with Trump, Republican lawmaker says he will back Clinton 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z This man is so self-involved, and now it’s layered with this extra megalomania because he is near real power. Mark Singer: ‘Trump will continue to shoot himself in the foot’ 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z So those between the ages of 18 and 20 today are likely to be about as self-involved as those from generations past. Why Are Some Young Americans So Narcissistic? It's the Economy, Stupid. 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z She thoroughly dominates one of the film’s finest scenes, when Bernstein confronts Wolfe over the devastating emotional cost of his casual, self-involved cruelties. Colin Firth plays the self-effacing literary editor Maxwell Perkins in ‘Genius’ 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Paul, a recovered alcoholic angling for a comeback, loves and respects Jude — that is, in his own uniquely self-involved way. 'One More Time' with Christopher Walken plays a simple tune 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z What it really shows is just how craven, self-serving and self-involved our media are. CNN’s Donald Trump disgrace: Trump coverage is the smoking gun, CNN is the corpse 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The Oscars, instead of being preceded by the traditional round of self-involved concerns over ratings and relevance, found itself in the middle of a larger, and scarier, conversation about race. Chris Rock was once a 'risky' choice as Oscars host, but everybody's listening now 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z In trying to explain the rise of Trump, many conservatives insist that the self-involved billionaire’s unforgivable sin is his failure to be true to the conservative creed. Republican self-destruction is fun to watch, but bad for us all 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z That’s right, Drake is going to mature into an artist equally as corny, dated and self-involved as Sting. Why Sting, not Drake, should play the NBA all-star game 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z I don't care who you vote for, but don't vote for a guy whose mirror image is the young Obama—young, opinionated, inexperienced and self-involved. Marco Rubio Bets the Grand Old Party Is Ready for His Younger Face 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z He could be prideful and self-involved, like the time he crashed his manager’s press conference to curse about being denied an R.B.I. by the scorekeeper. David Ortiz Begins His Last Slow Trot Before Retirement 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Though he has all the trappings of an iconic man-child, Dev is also a legitimately nice guy attempting, in his own often quite self-involved way, to lead a meaningful life. TV Picks: 'Mom,' 'Master of None,' 'Getting On' 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Abel is introduced in 1957 Brooklyn staring into a mirror, not because he is terminally self-involved but because, as an accomplished Sunday painter, he is working on a self-portrait. In 'Bridge of Spies' Cold War thriller, Tom Hanks shines 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Dunham thanked Clinton for saying that, since young people today – like young people of almost every era – are often accused of being overly self-involved. Clinton to Dunham: 'If you can’t get excited, be pragmatic' 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z “I always wanted to write a novel, but I was too self-involved until I did journalism and could write about a world outside my head,” said Indiana. Brooklyn Book Festival: writers take on journalism, gender and policing 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z In the early '50s, the focus of attention for "Games," set in the war-torn France of 1940, was its treatment of the two children who play the self-involved games of its title. 1952's lauded 'Forbidden Games' from France remains in a class by itself 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Ricki off stage turns out to be a trouble-making pain in the neck who gets aggrieved the way only the truly self-involved can manage. Meryl Streep rocks in 'Ricki and the Flash,' but story is out of tune 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But she is also self-involved and even infuriatingly so, and this self-involvement is, I think, a feature, not a bug, for how it conspires to show her drifting through Maycomb. Go Set a Watchman: panel review 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z But what might have been dryly self-involved steadily opens out into Chilean history and political reality. Alejandro Zambra, Latin America’s New Literary Star 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z The fast-paced, occasionally stressful, often hilarious and invariably self-involved story of how it all went down is the subject of “How to Catch a Russian Spy.” How an American slacker caught a Russian spy at a New Jersey Hooters 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z To his credit, Marsden delivers even that sketchy material with scruffy, cluelessly self-involved conviction. ‘The D Train’ features a scene-stealing James Marsden in a reunion comedy 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z The gist of Mr. Hamby’s complaint is that the hyperactive metabolism of today’s media and the general lack of access to the candidates have produced a lot of shallow, self-involved reporting. Campaign Coverage via Snapchat Could Shake Up the 2016 Elections 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Millennials get a lot of grief — “self-involved” and “entitled” are among the adjectives frequently used — so it’s interesting to see how they view the rest of the world. College kids now: socially liberal gamers stressing about bucks 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z “And probably if I examined the reason for that, I would see that I want to make clear that the utterly self-involved, politically disengaged character I play on ‘Girls’ is not who I am.” Lena Dunham Is Not Done Confessing 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Ironically, the cumulative message of the self-involved Confused Cats Against Feminism to the Women Against Feminism seems to be a feminist one. Catfight at the Anti-Feminist Corral: Felines Join the Anti-Feminist Debate When executives are excessively self-involved, he said, they may ascribe unrealistic attributes to themselves, like great strategic vision or deal-making ability, leading them to extend their domains by seeking acquisitions and wheeling and dealing rapidly. Merger Fever Can Be a Menace for Shareholders 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, they experience culture shock when they travel to the U.S. and see how Hamm’s self-involved, formerly well-off, all-business character really lives. Review - 'Million Dollar Arm' Delivers Pleasant, If Predictable, Entertainment 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Not all research points to narcissism as a in a business setting, but the question remains: What should management programs do to develop less self-involved students? Think MBA Students Are Arrogant? Blame Their Narcissistic Teachers 2014-03-05T10:56:13Z It’s a term that has come to be viewed as a catch-all to categorize young people and sometimes incites anger when used to cast Millennials as lazy or self-involved. H&R Block Is Calling All Hipsters to Do Their Taxes 2014-03-05T15:01:48Z In 2009, she added a second channel, featuring skits with characters like Emo Girl, a self-involved, overly emotional teenager whom Ms. Kay plays by wearing a black wig and lots of black eyeliner. Chasing Their Star, on YouTube 2014-02-01T16:27:14Z His was an inward-turning art that appealed to a generation younger than his — one torn between communitarian ideals and a self-involved thirst for emotional and professional fulfillment. My Story: Knocking Once Again on the Poet’s Door 2014-01-31T06:00:01Z When Irving was in his 80s, he was the most critical of Micah, calling him selfish and self-involved. My Story: For Micah’s Birthday, His Grandfather’s Blessing 2014-01-21T06:00:01Z But, after all, we’re talking about Washington politicians, possibly the only group who is more self-involved and self-regarding than the people in my business. Sloan: Are we supposed to be grateful that Congress didn’t wreck the economy? 2013-10-18T00:33:39Z Inconsistent, grumpy, self-involved, guilt-inducing and hard of hearing perhaps, and of course plainly annoying, as you are kind enough to remind me daily—but still reasonably good, I think. Letters From Dad: Famous Fathers Write Love Notes to Their Daughters 2013-06-14T11:50:26Z This screechy, self-involved attitude is hardly something we need to propagate. Stop Telling Me I’ll “Change My Mind” About Wanting Kids 2013-04-17T09:45:08Z For years I’ve been saying that self-proclaimed gurus are nothing but self-absorbed, self-centered, self-involved, self-promoters with no real self-confidence and self-esteem. 9 Ways You're Ruining Your Online Reputation 2013-01-04T15:36:28Z The terms “self-involved” and “overly praised” are often used to describe Gen Y. But their confidence may not be as deeply engrained as it first appears. Note to Gen Y: Job Performance Matters 2012-09-28T23:35:25Z The study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, asked 292 people to answer questions aimed at measuring how self-involved they were. Well: Does Facebook Turn People Into Narcissists? 2012-05-17T20:15:23Z I had plenty of time in my life to have them, but I was a self-involved young man and thought I knew everything. At War Blog: Questions for General George S. Patton, Jr.'s Grandson About His Family Memoir 2012-04-02T22:01:24Z I was so arrogant, so narcissistic, so self-involved, and it humbled me. Lives Restored: Man Uses His Schizophrenia to Gather Clues for Daily Living 2011-11-26T01:41:45Z Bletterman Queens Whatever high ground Penn State’s trustees may have regained by firing Joe Paterno has been squandered by the appallingly self-involved rioting of Penn State students in protest of that move. In-Box: The Angry Aftermath for a Program Gone Awry 2011-11-12T18:13:54Z Italy is in effect getting punished for the bad behavior of others, especially the wishy-washy, self-involved leaders of the euro zone. What Italy Tells Us About Europe's Debt Crisis 2011-08-24T08:33:27Z She may seem more self-involved, introspective and spacey. Royal Wedding Weight Watch: Wispy Kate Middleton Spotlights 'Brideorexia' 2011-04-19T09:10:00Z Without the knowledge of Mr. Sveshnikov’s harrowing, youthful travails, his work might seem like more sullen, self-involved expressionism. \| New Jersey: Abstract and Expressionistic, Yet Based in Grim Reality 2011-01-15T02:32:21Z Which means my son will be so self-involved, the only profession he can possibly have is cable news host. You Can't Spell TIME Without 'I' and 'Me'! 2010-11-29T15:50:00Z Our everyday picture of a narcissist is that of someone who is very self-involved — the conversation is always about them. Mind: A Fate That Narcissists Will Hate: Being Ignored 2010-11-30T17:40:00Z The concept hovered between the genius and the absurd, which made it all the more New York, that ever-changing, self-involved metropolis. Bowlmor Lanes in Former Newsroom 2010-11-19T06:48:00Z Some of us are too dense, too self-involved, to ask our parents and our grandparents about the meaning of life. 2010-01-22T01:30:00Z That meant the prime target — seemingly to keep the West from looking self-involved and heartless — would be the business and personal interests of the Revolutionary Guards, a fairly invulnerable pillar of the Tehran regime. 2010-01-11T12:23:00Z Young visionaries, to whom just so much of insight had been imparted as to make life all a labyrinth around them, came to seek the clue that should guide them out of their self-involved bewilderment. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I He stood immovable, pale, cold, and self-involved, like a being from another sphere. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author She was not one of those self-involved women always studying their own emotions; she was simply true to the light within her. Winter Evening Tales There was silence for a moment, and one after another met my roving glance with a thoughtful, self-involved and retrospective eye. Twelve Men He cultivated an Indian's self-involved and deliberate vacancy. Nightfall Doctor Levillier, glancing from him to Julian, found him self-involved in remembrances of Rip and Valentine. Flames He was early a member of Brook Farm—a solitary, self-involved person, preferring to associate with children rather than with older persons. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis In this condition he affords an excellent example of a self-involved philosopher, defending himself from the annoyance of the world by a stoical crustiness, and seeking all his enjoyment within his own centre. Journal of an African Cruiser That saying about levelling upward, and not downward, may seem very fine to those who cannot see its self-involved absurdity. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War Both are absent and self-involved, both live out of themselves in a world of imagination. Characters of Shakespeare's Plays She was firm and open —he irresolute and self-involved. Sandra Belloni — Volume 5
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