Example sentences for: self-centered

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

  • The group is commended for its ability to tap spirituality without degenerating into self-centered men's-movement histrionics.

  • Reiner has the fatted, self-centered TV exec's demeanor down pat, but the movie degrades him while holding the same attitude toward human beings that he has.

  • The Dalai Lama's pop Buddhism is appealingly self-centered: Happiness trumps everything.

  • In Flannery O'Connor's story "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," a crotchety and self-centered grandmother, held at gunpoint by an escaped convict in rural Georgia, becomes suddenly sensitive.

  • But Fiennes is truly in his odd element as a Graham Greene hero in Neil Jordan's fluid adaptation of The End of the Affair . He plays Maurice Bendrix, a self-centered novelist who embarks on an opportunistic but increasingly incendiary romance with Sarah (Julianne Moore), the wife of a bland civil servant named Henry Miles (Stephen Rea).


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