self-regard

• Reading Obama's speech - and recalling some of his more important campaign speeches - one senses that the primary problem the United States faces is a crisis of identity, purpose and self-regard. —  Charlotte was Both
• Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller's Vietnam-film-within-a-film, has a lot of gags to get through in its two-hour running time - the self-regard of actors; the greed and ruthlessness of Hollywood producers; a raft of 'Nam movie clichés - and yet it still seems at least 20 minutes too long, with all the best jokes used up in the first act (including a terrific trio of spoof trailers). —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
• That someone with such a thin resume would presume to run for the job of leader & presumably PM just reconfirmed what all who have followed the man's career already knew, that he is inhabited by a self-regard that is absolutely dangerous in its myopic intensity. —  Liblogs.ca latest blog entries
• Buoyed by a coterie of admiring friends and associates-protected by the armor of positive self-regard-someone with a mild-to-moderate case of narcissism can float through life feeling pretty good about himself. —  The Moderate Voice
• A narcissist can be hard to identify, in part because he is likely to be much more fascinating than you would expect for someone so self-absorbed, and in part because you wouldn't think someone with such self-regard could be so defensive and needy. here. —  The Moderate Voice

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