self-obsession

It could help revise our belief that the earth and the human species are the central focus of creation, bringing us some relief from our own self-obsession.

Wes Nisker: Just Another Planet Wes Nisker 2011

The truth is, artists are just as good at being self-interested as anyone else, and Mellencamp's article drips with his own self-obsession.

Glass and steel Matthew Guerrieri 2009

In my opinion, it's this self-obsession that Lewis-Kraus mistakes "for a faint tremor of heroism in the air" as he sums up his experience of the MLA convention.

Literary Study 2009

Obviously, the show serves its purpose well: Organizational self-obsession, drama and nebulous, shifting success criteria make for good television.

Edward Muzio: 'American Idol': Good Show, Probably Not A Good Work Environment Edward Muzio 2011

Literature is passe, and it's hard to muster up much enthusiasm for a fragmented curriculum that mostly rewards self-obsession.

Literary Study 2009

Jackson also has a wonderful ear for the eccentricity of child talk, its odd, borrowed adultness, its surreality, its gorgeous self-obsession.

Seeing The Funny Side « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

For example, there was a time when I viewed Jesus, and only Jesus, as capable of being divine, or living free of self-interest or self-obsession, and in oneness and unity with Source itself.

Steve McSwain: Perspectives Of A Former Fundamentalist Christian Steve McSwain 2011

In many families, the negativity, the self-obsession, and the lugubriousness are irritants, and because depression is physically inivisble, families often doubt that it is real, and blame the sufferer.

Andrew Solomon - An interview with author 2010

For example, there was a time when I viewed Jesus, and only Jesus, as capable of being divine, or living free of self-interest or self-obsession, and in oneness and unity with Source itself.

Steve McSwain: Perspectives Of A Former Fundamentalist Christian Steve McSwain 2011

Obviously, the show serves its purpose well: Organizational self-obsession, drama and nebulous, shifting success criteria make for good television.

Edward Muzio: 'American Idol': Good Show, Probably Not A Good Work Environment Edward Muzio 2011