How to Use egoism in a Sentence

egoism

noun

• There must be some egoism in wanting to help because . .
  — Eliana Rudee, Jewish Journal, 14 Mar. 2018
• Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism . . .
  — Chloe Schildhause, HWD, 4 Aug. 2017
• The word altruism was coined around 1830 by French philosopher August Comte, as the opposite of egoism.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
• Between devil-may-care thoughtlessness and flair-first egoism is the bull's-eye of barmanship.
  — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 25 May 2017
• Nearly forty years after the epochal music festival, the name Woodstock still evokes the heady idealism and drop-out egoism of a more hopeful era.
  — Bryan Miller, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2013
• Huxley feared those who would give us so much information that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
  — Brooke Gladstone, Slate Magazine, 18 May 2017
• Once the powerful have embraced childish sparring and petty egoism, though, how can anyone escape it?
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
• Altruism, not egoism, is the driving force behind Rogers' desire to become enhanced.
  — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2011
• Rosick admirably fuses Jamie’s egoism, charm and ambition.
  — oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2021
• Fight Club’s leering portrayal of male anger and egoism has become a militant-macho touchstone.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
• Affinities of blood, however, can encourage a sort of collective egoism.
  — Samuel Goldman, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
• But these stem from posturing and egoism, not from principles—as proved by Cohen’s elevation of himself into such a passive, blameless creature.
  — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• Remaining king of the mountain is a daily battle with self-satisfaction, egoism and complacency.
  — Brian H. Robb, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Pauli conveys the brilliant inventor’s egoism and emotional stuntedness, qualities that at one point provoke a climactic showdown with Ada.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• The national egoism that had inflicted so much suffering before 1945 would be suppressed on a new vision in which international politics would come to look more and more like domestic politics.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 May 2017
• His egoism, laziness, arrogance, and above all his habitual dishonesty are crippling.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 27 Sep. 2019
• The novel was written during the heyday of rational egoism, when certain utopian thinkers believed that human behavior could be reduced to a series of logical rules so as to maximize well-being and create the ideal society.
  — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
• Some of this incoherence points to the plight of female ambition, its endless negotiations between egoism and self-effacement, toughness and delicacy.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• Between his unstoppable egoism and his consistent unpopularity, Trump may end up costing his party control of Congress.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 22 Dec. 2017
• The Academy’s apology is merely self-satisfying political egoism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 Aug. 2022
• Rejecting this calculating egoism, but unable to accept traditional accounts of innate ethical knowledge, Shaftesbury attributed human kindness and sociability to sentiment.
  — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024