Example Sentences

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“I obviously get the self-oriented obsession with getting better,” Navratilova said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2022

Of true self-oriented perfectionism, Natalie Dattilo, Ph.D., the director of psychology and the department of psychiatry at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, said: "It's debilitating. It's terrible. It's awful, despite its benign-sounding name."

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2021

"If you communicate self-oriented answers like, 'I need more money,' 'I want a better title,' or 'I'm going nowhere in my present firm,' you'll be dead in the water," Beshara writes.

From US News • Oct. 28, 2015

Sometimes, because I'm so wrapped up in my work, you could say I was self-oriented.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2013

In one experiment, the Israeli neuroscientist Rafi Malach presented subjects with pictures and asked them to judge their own emotional reactions as positive, negative or neutral — a self-oriented, introspective task.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2010