It's like insisting that solipsism is a valid philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
But that kind of childish solipsism is part of what makes America so gosh-darn unique!. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Obama’s Car Invention Myth] Reference
A beautiful counterpoint to his fantastic solipsism is the appalling verbosity of his manservant, Mash Qasem. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Version] Reference
No, solipsism is only a valid philosophy if you hold to some implicit individualism, some sort of philosophical anarchism. From Wordnik.com. [Bukiet on Brooklyn Books] Reference
You know what the word solipsism means?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bloomsday Dead] Reference
This position is called solipsism, and I say that the fact of self-consciousness forces us all to be solipsists at heart and from birth. From Wordnik.com. [Spock Must Die]
I once wrote a story about media-induced-solipsism, which is defined as the philosophical position that if the cameras stop pointing at you, you cease to exist. From Wordnik.com. [This is the most disgusting thing I've seen all week] Reference
What is unmistakable is the creepy kind of solipsism and the air of self-congratulation that clings to his campaign. From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
The word solipsism seven times. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
I know you'll cure us of that solipsism right quick. From Wordnik.com. [bearded like the pard] Reference
That solipsism must be channeled into that performance. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Go-Nightly] Reference
Is that why she came to me in a dream and whispered solipsism?. From Wordnik.com. [Stephanie Gertler: Painting the Dream] Reference
And talk about a narcissistic personalty that borders on solipsism. From Wordnik.com. [David Goldstein: The Real Victim in Yesterday's Arkansas shooting? Michelle Malkin] Reference
It is becoming difficult to take your mealy mouthed solipsism seriously. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
His answer verges on solipsism, but it's as deep as he is willing to go. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Palmer: Observations from al Asad, Iraq] Reference
Corgan's writing is still mired in the pouty solipsism that gummed up "Adore.". From Wordnik.com. [Up With The Downbeat] Reference
Last night I dreamed my mother came to me and kept murmuring the word "solipsism.". From Wordnik.com. [Stephanie Gertler: Painting the Dream] Reference
That is the way forward-to throw off our own solipsism and think of the rest of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Constant: The Foundation of Movement: Cultural Diplomacy] Reference
True to form, Gallo's drama puts the i in solipsism (and then dots it with a scowly face). From Wordnik.com. [Promises Written in Water] Reference
Here's an interesting and funny article about personal web sites and egotism and solipsism. From Wordnik.com. [Web Egos] Reference
Even performed without a partner, McLuhan perceived, the Twist was no exercise in solipsism. From Wordnik.com. [A Twist in Time] Reference
Like Lasch, Ruskoff perceives the corrosive effect of consumer society solipsism on community. From Wordnik.com. [Life, Inc: Tripping the Corporatism Fantastic with Douglas Rushkoff] Reference
But I never bothered to try it out, because I preferred the solipsism of a world where I'm the center. From Wordnik.com. [Gamer's Radical Realization: I Prefer Playing With Myself] Reference
Still, the question of what enables this radical solipsism is left a touch underdeveloped in Point Omega. From Wordnik.com. [All Pain, No Gain] Reference
It might simply be a story about a single author -- angry, self-righteous, and oblivious in his solipsism. From Wordnik.com. [Lawrence Lessig: The Solipsist and the Internet (a Review of Helprin's Digital Barbarism)] Reference
Twitter-phobes (or more contemporarily, Twitphobes) complain that the platform fuels narcissism and solipsism. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life] Reference
Time to take a little break from the solipsism of the past few days and mark a moment in history, if you will. From Wordnik.com. [replay 25 cents] Reference
“Tsunami” is crafted, in part, to be an apologia for Western solipsism, but the film ends up reinforcing it. From Wordnik.com. [Revisiting the Tsunami] Reference
To toss solipsism is a wonderful thing, but our neighbors abroad do not need our "help" in understanding their own culture. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Constant: The Foundation of Movement: Cultural Diplomacy] Reference
A sharp, black tight strip that razors down the sky is the very fine line that separates the hemispheres of solipsism and nihilism. From Wordnik.com. [absentia Diary Entry] Reference
On the other hand, the relentless barrage of trivial twaddle is only getting worse: It's gone beyond self-absorption into solipsism. From Wordnik.com. [Gene Weingarten: Get outta my Facebook!] Reference
CARLSON: No, it's just the press is dominated by baby boomer solipsism who can't get over their (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- it's absolutely true. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2004] Reference
No trace of the solipsism which results from their being confounded and which has ultimately brought to destruction the imposing edifice of. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
The Apollo program, contends the author, "went nowhere, withdrawing to the virtual solipsism of the space shuttle and a near-Earth space station.". From Wordnik.com. [Review of "Voyager," a book about the space probes, by Stephen J. Pyne] Reference
Rather, they broaden the scope of the poem, saving it from solipsism, and they're so precisely balanced within the poem that it feels if one were removed the rest would topple. From Wordnik.com. [John Milton At 400] Reference
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