His alcoholism, and I think it's just self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2002] Reference
KURTZ: OK, so you think it's self-absorption run amok. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2003] Reference
You get: Player tendencies; mistreatment; self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [Which Part of 'Bad Boy' Was Unclear, Sandra Dear?] Reference
GRACE: ... calling from the jail, just complete self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2008] Reference
KURTZ: So I think there's a degree of media self-absorption here?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2003] Reference
You call it "conversational," I call it self-absorption on a stick. From Wordnik.com. [Carolyn Hax: He likes two girls, and plays one against the other] Reference
Do you think a jury will ever hear all this intense self-absorption?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2009] Reference
Perhaps America's greatest glory is to rise above this self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [Political Perils of a 'Big Sort'?] Reference
They are, after all, our twin cities of megalomania and self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood & Vice] Reference
This self-absorption became the generator that powered her every action. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part II] Reference
The problem is Hollywood's humorlessness and just utter self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2008] Reference
That, in his self-absorption, he allowed her to Sending Completed Page, Please. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
This would aggravate Europe's political tensions and increase its self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [The Boom Has Come And Gone] Reference
And, you know, there's nothing like children to keep you from toxic self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2007] Reference
Kym, like most junkies, is a master of manipulation and a monster of self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [The Wedding Guest From Hell] Reference
His amiability is undercut by contrariness, his sensitivity dulled by self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: The Water Walker] Reference
And Val Kilmer is too honest an actor to soft-pedal Morrison's childish self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [Back From The Other Side] Reference
Regardless of self-absorption, Boss's family are good people and were concerned about us. From Wordnik.com. [owlsoul Diary Entry] Reference
She could drop into one of her moods of self-absorption, or speak as if she were thinking aloud. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest] Reference
California, like any gorgeously endowed person, has a natural inclination toward self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [Death of the Dream] Reference
She gained weight, indulged herself endlessly, and became B the soul of pampered self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
You'd think the last thing Americans need is more excuses for self-absorption and acquisitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Decoding 'The Secret'] Reference
This comment shows both her guilt (fear of punishment) and also her own (childish) self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [Samantha Zalaznick: Mad Men Recap: The Shame Game] Reference
If Sean Wilsey needed lessons in self-absorption when he was growing up, he didn't have to look far. From Wordnik.com. [DYSFUNCTION JUNCTION] Reference
In this, their first supreme experience of self-consciousness, they had the self-absorption of young brides. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Having a sense of Olberman's gigantic self-absorption, I suspect the latter, which creates an equally gigantic dilemma. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Warner: Olbermann's Right, Wrong, and Delusional] Reference
She pounced upon the letter and even her brother's eyes, dimmed by life-long self-absorption, could see that her face fell. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Will fatigue with the less attractive side of the Clinton years -- the soap opera, sinning and self-absorption -- resurface?. From Wordnik.com. [Is America Ready?] Reference
This is compounded by the economic doldrums - and associated self-absorption - that continue to grip much of the donor world. From Wordnik.com. [Nicholas van Praag: Inequality of mercy] Reference
The show laughs at its characters, and therefore at our self-absorption; it holds the mirror up and shows us there's nothing there. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors] Reference
However, having myself stood at the door of true-believerism, I know how its self-absorption can mask the ironies obvious to others. From Wordnik.com. [John R. Coats: What's Real About the Rapture?] Reference
Jan Zeh could move beyond her self-absorption by volunteering at a school, nursing home or by offering child care to a harried mother. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
Butits intensity and self-absorption, and the lack of focus on policy except as a vehicle for the internal battle, is still startling. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Man by Peter Mandelson] Reference
We sit and regard each other with polite disdain and refer all other emotions to the self-absorption of rain. From Wordnik.com. [Your Slinky Blue Dress] Reference
Jon, it ` s also my understanding that neighbors and family members had been trying to counsel her for some time about her self-absorption. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2007] Reference
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