Example sentences for: self-absorbed

How can you use “self-absorbed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You don't find it remotely enlightening to share relentless intimacy with someone so angry, self-righteous and strange--and so proud of being candid" ( USA Today ). Most critics call the collection "funny, warm and sagacious" (Regina Marler, the Los Angeles Times ), but there are a few who condemn it as self-absorbed.

  • Yeltsin's legacy will be like Yeltsin himself, particularly during his second term: inarticulate, confused, self-absorbed, weak."

  • It wasn't that either of the two plot strands (the end of George's affair with a self-absorbed professor and start of another with a Vermont ex-hippie; Nina's decision not to marry the blowhard father of her baby) broke new ground, only that the mixture raised modern and entertaining questions: Why would this woman feel more comfortable raising a child with a homosexual man than with a heterosexual one?

  • Joseph finds her enigmatic, but the only real enigma about this self-absorbed woman that we're ever aware of is her anorexia.

  • "Is it any wonder that the self-absorbed, the promiscuous, the drugged and the drunk ...


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