Most of them turn out to be long-winded hagiographies or self-absorbed and pedagogic narratives.
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You are truly extraordinarily and uniquely self-absorbed in a town where self-absorption is common.
Whether it was his intention or not, Mr Berendt exposes Venice as a self-absorbed and heartless city.
The new, self-absorbed Europe can pretty much ignore what happens outside its boundaries.
If there is a theme to be found in The Red Moccasins' songs, it is something of a self-absorbed one.
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Perhaps it is human nature that when executives reach the top of big organizations, they often become self-absorbed and remote.
People become less self-absorbed and ironically, more likely to be genuinely happy.
And the story itself doesn't end up a downer as the fable unfolds, telling how even a loutish, self-absorbed lawyer can ultimately find redemption.
He could be self-absorbed far beyond the point of mere incivility.
Celebrities, for instance, "are expected to be completely self-absorbed, " he says.
The best leaders recognize this attitude and studiously avoid being self-absorbed.
When he spoke, the normally self-absorbed digerati listened with rapt attention.
Affleck briefly plays the self-absorbed actor Ned Alleyn, and the best thing you can say about his wavering accent is that at least he isn't Keanu Reeves.
The campaign promise that mattered most to Indians was not swadeshi but suraj, good government, a break with the self-absorbed and corrupt governance with which Indians are familiar.
Meanwhile, some excessively self-absorbed copyright holders have been lobbying on multiple fronts for expanded power to control everything from the Internet to the electronic devices people use to access music or movies.
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He seems consumed by his own thoughts, whether onscreen or in a piece of music, but there's one crucial key to the success of his art: He never comes off as self-absorbed.
His performances on air and in the courtroom were widely derided by prosecutors, legal analysts and commentators as narcissistic, self-absorbed and even more hurtful to the young men he was convicted of molesting.
They are, however, fundamentally self-absorbed and self-promoting.
In "Tropic Thunder, " a comedy about self-absorbed Hollywood types making a "Platoon"-style war movie, Downey plays Australian actor Kirk Lazarus, a multiple Oscar-winning performer who gets so involved in his roles that he forgets to come out of them.
And some people are self-absorbed, lack personal goals, associate with the wrong crowd in the wrong places, or constantly blame others for failing to get ahead in life, rather than taking the right steps to escape from this context.
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And although it may seem unimaginable that Hollywood could ever go the way of Detroit, whose greedy car workers and self-absorbed bosses were nearly the death of the American car industry, it is worth remembering how unimaginable it once was that Detroit could go the way of Detroit.
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