Example Sentences

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When explaining this trend, it’s tempting to turn to stereotypes: phone-addled, self-obsessed kids these days have forgotten how to connect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Urban, endlessly diverse and wildly self-obsessed, Brooklyn is hardly a template for America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Pigossi’s self-obsessed novelist, however, is perfectly pitched in his all-around obliviousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2025

"The first one is that they are also shamelessly self-obsessed."

From Salon • Dec. 7, 2024

For instance, love: men in many “advanced,” that is to say, self-obsessed, civilizations, view it only in its physical materializations, but not in its spiritual context.

From The Revolutions of Time by Dunn, Jonathan