I'm already self-absorbed -- I don't need any help. From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers: Parker Posey] Reference
Parents may describe them as sullen and self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [A Much Riskier Passage] Reference
Driving on, Richard found her curiously self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
I write because I feel self-absorbed and generous at once. From Wordnik.com. [Pi in the Sky] Reference
Deb (the spectacular Leoni) is a self-loathing, self-absorbed neurotic. From Wordnik.com. [SPANGLISH: LANGUAGE OF LOVE] Reference
It's something we'll monitor, but Americans are somewhat self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [Netflix CEO Hopes 'Self-Absorbed' Americans Won't Notice Discount] Reference
Many in Hollywood consider her self-absorbed, difficult and controlling. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Is Talking] Reference
These self-absorbed aristos are messing up Messina's tight little utopia. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare, As You Like It] Reference
Suffice it to say she doesn't get any less abrasive or less self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. ['Joan Rivers': Uncut And Unvarnished] Reference
Not sure whether Americans are becoming more materialistic and self-absorbed?. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Time Magazine's Bizarre Assault on Large Families] Reference
Likably self-absorbed, Leyner writes about what he knows and loves best: himself. From Wordnik.com. [Buffing Up Is Hard To Do] Reference
And in this self-absorbed line of thought we begin to forget the needs of others. From Wordnik.com. [Jon Foreman: The Economy of the Garden -- Part Two] Reference
We become self-absorbed and behave in ways that the people around us find disturbing. From Wordnik.com. [Mental health diagnoses mask the real problems] Reference
As citizens, we are lax and self-absorbed; our leaders prefer to keep things this way. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: America's Defunct Political System] Reference
The great majority of our countrywomen thus grow careworn, narrow-minded, self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
These small acts of selflessness get obscured by Kerry's seemingly self-absorbed persona. From Wordnik.com. [THE SOLITARY SOLDIER] Reference
As these hilarious, self-absorbed reveries demonstrate, Ingraham has a gift for acerbic expression. From Wordnik.com. [In 'Obama Diaries,' self-absorbed musings] Reference
If you're idle, he'll approach and start talking nonsense -- like a real kid, but less self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [A Robot Child to Watch Your Back] Reference
She has broken up with a fellow graduate student back home who is predictably self-absorbed and condescending. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and Prayer] Reference
The trick is to find a way to be universal and resonant without being self-absorbed and taking readers nowhere. From Wordnik.com. [Story pick: Confronting cancer] Reference
Washington, enmeshed in its own political malaise, forgets that its self-absorbed behavior has real consequences. From Wordnik.com. [What We Risk If We Walk Away] Reference
The Clintons are part of a frequently self-absorbed baby-boom generation that was raised to consider itself special. From Wordnik.com. [Soul Searching] Reference
They are not well equipped for the job, having enough trouble navigating their own floundering, self-absorbed lives. From Wordnik.com. [Not Ready For Crunch Time] Reference
Leigh plays the self-absorbed Scarlett to perfection, while Gable's Rhett is devilishly suave and fiercely masculine. From Wordnik.com. [John Farr: A Tale of Two Sisters: Hollywood's Longest Running Feud] Reference
Perhaps most encouraging is Haynesworth's effort to counteract his reputation as a selfish and self-absorbed teammate. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Jenkins: Coach Mike Shanahan is testing Albert Haynesworth's loyalty more than his fitness] Reference
As citizens, we are lax and self-absorbed; our leaders, and their predatory godfathers, prefer to keep things this way. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Brenner: America's Defunct Political System] Reference
Readers for centuries have recognized that all this makes Milton's grief over King seem insincere, if not self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [John Milton At 400] Reference
While Clinton is usually factually correct in refuting these arguments, he can't help sounding defensive and self-absorbed. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Clinton Up Close] Reference
I'm trying to fathom dedicating eight pages to Spitzer's self-absorbed contemplation of his death, burial and resurrection. From Wordnik.com. [A Profile of an Ex-Governor in Exile] Reference
Unlike most, he gets to have Herman Melville drop by-though the self-absorbed Hawthorne gives us absolutely no sense of him. From Wordnik.com. [Snap Judgement] Reference
When these self-absorbed expats aren't wanting what they don't have, they are failing to understand what's under their noses. From Wordnik.com. [Books: The Young And The Feckless] Reference
But being a classic self-absorbed, quasi-messianic member of my generation, I cannot let the occasion pass without deep reflection. From Wordnik.com. [Aarp? Arrgh.] Reference
The "Friends" recipe for success seems to be three socially stunted men, two self-absorbed neurotic control-freak women and Phoebe. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
But neither is likely to make much dent on a very self-absorbed middle class, which is David Bonior's dilemma and his party's as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemplative Bomb-Thrower] Reference
Marriage, fatherhood and deployments to the worst areas of the world have given me a perspective I was too self-absorbed to see before. From Wordnik.com. [Moving Back East; Heading Back Home] Reference
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