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the novel's major characters all suffer from self-absorption, and they are every bit as insufferable as such people are in real life
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His self-absorption, against the backdrop of such enormous loss, was particularly striking.
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Kevin Johnson, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
But, sometimes, accomplishment and self-absorption can go together.
—Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
But that feckless self-absorption is rerouted, if not extinguished, by a chance sighting of local resident Charlotte (Alison Pill).
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
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Kevin Johnson, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
But, sometimes, accomplishment and self-absorption can go together.
—Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
In the view of Georgie’s daughter, Suke Wolton, who teaches politics at Oxford, her late mother found Foster’s self-absorption a little hard to take.
—Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
But that feckless self-absorption is rerouted, if not extinguished, by a chance sighting of local resident Charlotte (Alison Pill).
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for self-absorption
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“Self-absorption.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-absorption. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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