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This was my chance to not be an actor, not have that stink of being an actor, that egotistical, show-off, controlling, making choices, being clever part of being an actor.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
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The film, which centers on a group of egotistical actors making a Vietnam War movie, grossed nearly $200 million worldwide and picked up an Oscar nomination for supporting actor thanks to Robert Downey Jr.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
26 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, whenever Isabell’s narcissistic husband Philippe (Vincent Macaigne) is on screen, the film switches registers from drama to farce.—
Alissa Simon,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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To the narcissistic wannabe dictator on the ship, Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) and his ambitious wife Ylfa (Toni Collette), Mickey is sub-human, dismissible and invisible, a cog in the wheel of their plans.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
15 Feb. 2025
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Setting aside humanity, humility, charity, generosity, rationality, reality and other distractions, the Los Angeles fires add another element to what was already a fraught relationship between two egocentric political figures.—
Dan Walters,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Once Leo Season begins on the 22nd, and Chiron begins its retrograde in Aries on the 26th, our mission will be to cultivate a healthy relationship with our own self-esteem without veering into narcissistic or egocentric tendencies.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
refinery29.com,
29 June 2024
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This is the worst kind of football team: a conceited but objectively mediocre squad.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
17 Nov. 2024
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Rory Kinnear steals some of the best lines as the conceited British prime minister, and Ato Essandoh, as Kate’s deputy chief, plays the ever-flustered man surrounded by extremely capable women with admirable humor, charm, and confidence.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
30 Oct. 2024
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Daemon, Viserys’s vainglorious younger brother, had married his niece in part as a way to strengthen his own bid for the throne, and Alicent had pushed for the ascension of her immature firstborn, Aegon.—
Inkoo Kang,
The New Yorker,
5 Aug. 2024
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Debuting March 3, the six-part realpolitik satire, created and executive produced by Succession alum Will Tracy, sees Oscar and Emmy winner Winslet return to HBO in an often hilarious role as the vainglorious Elena.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
20 June 2024
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The reputation that Rickey Henderson engendered over his decades in the game was of a proud and often boastful player.—
Sam Blum,
The Athletic,
22 Dec. 2024
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Image On eve of inaugural, Trump vowed to end ‘American decline’ Donald Trump held a boastful, campaign-style rally at an arena in downtown Washington on the eve of his second inauguration.—
Jonathan Wolfe,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Oliver then suddenly appeared with a smug look on his face.—
Jack Dunn,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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Remember how, in that SNL book, Ferrell represented the hip future of comedy, mocking the smug boomer shtick of a Chevy Chase?—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Investigators also said that many of the agents were complacent and not specific when giving instructions to local law enforcement helping secure the event.—
Tim Balk,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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If people aren’t losing focus or growing complacent, what’s the panic about?—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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