How to Use narcissism in a Sentence

narcissism

noun

• And part of that was letting go of a lot of my narcissism.
  — Reggie Ugwu, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
• The first seeds of narcissism are sewn in infancy, Raymond says.
  — Jillian Kramer, SELF, 17 Oct. 2017
• Everything in the world that doesn't feed his ravenous narcissism is essentially fit for burning.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 18 Oct. 2017
• His emotions control his mind; his narcissism overwhelms even basic self-interest, let alone the interest of the country as a whole.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 27 Oct. 2017
• The overwhelming response to the rise of technology has been to blame it for rises in narcissism and declines in empathy.
  — Stav Ziv, Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2017
• There is still a lot to be learned about these traits and the select few who embody the truest clinical expressions of sociopathy, psychopathy, or narcissism.
  — Talkspace, Teen Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
• At the end of the episode Will and Grace resolve to do better not by their values, but by each other—everything secondary to their narcissism.
  — Willa Paskin, Slate Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017
• By contrast, feelings of frustration and inadequacy tend to lead to narcissism.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• At least one psychiatrist says terms like dementia and narcissism are being thrown around without evidence, and are unfair to people who are truly ill.
  — Health.com, 16 Oct. 2017
• That might be because narcissism, associated with overconfidence, causes fund managers to stick longer with ideas that just aren’t working, Brinke said.
  — Bess Levin, The Hive, 19 Oct. 2017
• Although narcissism was always prevalent in about the same percentages of the population, the disorder is more widely discussed now than ever before.
  — Talk Space, Teen Vogue, 17 Oct. 2017
• So why would thick, bushy brows be linked to narcissism?
  — Blake Bakkila, Health.com, 7 June 2018
• The streak of narcissism in Dr. Stockmann limits the reach of his brilliance.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• Studies seem to show narcissism is on the rise in younger people.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
• But the older parents are too lost in their narcissism to help their kids.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
• Nothing in this era of award-show narcissism can match its shock.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 Aug. 2022
• Ryan Broussard) sticks, and doesn’t drown in his own narcissism.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2022
• Then again, maybe narcissism and living for half a millennia simply amount to the same thing, and that’s the point of the flashback.
  — Devon Maloney, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2021
• But the sly pleasure of Sick of Myself is that Signe’s narcissism differs from the rest of ours more in degree than kind.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2022
• One of the worst types of peers to have the displeasure of working with are those who exhibit signs of narcissism.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Now that he is gone, the stubborn style, the acid wit, even the spells of narcissism, appear to have been a coping mechanism.
  — Martin Amis, Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
• This kind of narcissism sounds a lot like self-esteem, the belief in our own abilities.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2019
• Even old allies on the right could no longer ignore the spectacle of his narcissism and self-dealing.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• This catholic priest is a social fighter, but there is a certain degree of narcissism in his goal.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
• The vibe is one of camp send-up of Hollywood narcissism, but irony and egotism are blended like a fine Bordeaux.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
• Research rooted in brand narcissism sounds like a needy date.
  — Rebecca Brooks, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• In addition to Trump’s narcissism, Russia looms over the book.
  — Jeremi Suri, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
• But, as the tale spools out, the effect is a vivid and awful dramatisation of the narcissism of obsessive love.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• In his hands, the sort of drive that makes anyone plate and trash dozens of Wagyu steaks one after another begins to seem less like hustle, more like trauma displacement tinged with narcissism.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 9 July 2024
• That’s a reference to the now extremely passé and retrograde HBO show, last filmed in 2011, about a bunch of Hollywood dudes convinced of their own importance, and enamored of their own narcissism.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024