self-absorption
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Meaning
preoccupation with yourself to the exclusion of everything else
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But in “The Great Gatsby,” when Redford needed to do for Mia Farrow what Streisand had done for him, he couldn’t transcend his immaculate self-absorption.
He describes the consequences of sin and poor decision-making as a descent into dishonesty and self-absorption that eventually landed him on the streets of Anchorage and at the doorstep of the Brother Francis Shelter in the winter of 2012.
In this luminous and tartly comic new novel, Mona Simpson, modern master of the surreal family drama, trains her eye on a generation - and a man - torn between idealism and self-absorption.
Maybe it’s better that he wallow in self-absorption rather than actually try to run the government, since he has no idea how to make things better but is eminently capable of making them worse.
In Praise of Bad CatholicsWe live in a strange time, with traditional words like “mother” and “father” being lost, or mocked, with confusion about sexual identity, with narcissism, self-absorption, skepticism, nihilism.
He uses Ellie, and his self-absorption afterwards compounds his error.