Example Sentences

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This is the backdrop to our aristocrat’s leisurely philosophical inquiry and self-preoccupation; this is the subtlety of Machado’s psychological shading.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2020

More exasperating than his self-preoccupation is the childish malingering over the many tasks of breaking up—the taxes to be disentangled, the property to be settled.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019

After the Inferno of family relationships we then see the Purgatory of self-preoccupation before we get a glimpse of Paradise in which Bob and Madeleine become a modern Dante and Beatrice.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012

Otherwise, you’re engaging in a form of rhetorical narcissism and ideological self-preoccupation that has no consequence on the material conditions of actually existing poor people.”

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2012

The whimsical tone of irony and invective made Isabelle laugh, and also subtly changed her self-preoccupation.

From Together by Herrick, Robert