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Example sentences for: self-absorption

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Hurt plays George from the movie's point of view instead of the character's: The professor's self-absorption and obliviousness are so apparent from the start that it's a wonder he could ever have fooled anyone.
Boomers, whose self-absorption has long been ridiculed, have finally managed to get over themselves.
Reebok sponsors, and thus elevates, Shaquille O'Neal, a huge mass of self-absorption whose teams, like Iverson's, seldom fulfill expectations.
Either way, Brodkey embraces a self-absorption so extreme that it succeeds, paradoxically, in turning him into an Everyman:
Such self-absorption seems very selfish when what I want to hear about is Bosnia and its condition on the eve of the elections.