Example Sentences

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The orgone box style of acting — hermetic, self-engrossed — is back with a vengeance.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 23, 2020

But of course the wild accusations, irrational behavior and self-engrossed eruptions didn’t end there.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2016

And while flat is the right TV answer for everyone but the self-engrossed bachelor, a curved computer monitor or all-in-one PC is something else entirely.

From The Verge • Jan. 16, 2015

How unsympathetic she had been; how self-engrossed; how callous to the sensibilities of others! 

From The Man by Stoker, Bram

He would not ever be able to understand her wish to be alone, or to be self-engrossed.

From Coquette by Swinnerton, Frank