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Recent Examples of inner-directed
One is inner-directed, determined to build self-esteem.
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Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inner-directed
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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, 31 Dec. 2024
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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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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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So begins possibly the most egocentric quest to humble oneself the stage has yet seen.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2024
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In the teaser, David says that every single person is a narcissistic psychopath on this show.Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
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Her narcissistic abuser father Bob (French Stewart).Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 1 Jan. 2025
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Hill went rogue and selfish, again, by cryptically hinting a coach pulled him out of the game due to his left wrist injury.Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2025
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But while his months of legal delaying actions enabled Trump to prevent the government from holding him legally responsible for his acts, Trump cannot escape moral responsibility for what may have been history’s singularly most selfish effort to flout the rules of American democracy.Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2025
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Needless to say, this particular motive is not mentioned in Biden’s solipsistic and self-pitying statement.Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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The old tourist is essentially the boorish figure from the headlines—solipsistic, oriented toward the self, someone who superimposes their fantasies onto a place and then is outraged when their expectations aren’t met.Chelsea Leu, The Atlantic, 30 June 2024
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Sitting on the sidelines and labeling someone else as self-centered is easy.Cheryl Robinson, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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The Herod book doesn’t make her attitude about segregation less myopic and self-centered.Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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Teens and young adults have been self-absorbed with appearance since at least the Boomer generation began coming of age in the rock-and-roll ’50s.Greg Petro, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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Journalists can be a hyper-competitive bunch who grow self-absorbed under the stress of tight deadlines and long hours.Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2024
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A little self-involved, but the check clears either way.Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2024
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Don’t be too proud to accept help or too self-involved to provide it in return.Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2024
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“Inner-directed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inner-directed. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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