Maybe the smartphone has had this impact in societies with a more collectivist orientation, but in hyper-individualistic America, the smartphone and other mobile devices led by the iPhone are the tools of self absorption.
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Kasich just goes on and on, enthusiastic to the end, fired up on adrenaline and self-absorption.
You are truly extraordinarily and uniquely self-absorbed in a town where self-absorption is common.
"My criticism of Michael is his self-absorption -- the whole celebrity thing where he needs to feel like he's worshipped, " Boteach said Thursday.
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Through it all, Sanders persisted with the single-minded self-absorption that has been the hallmark of his career, and the cause of his two divorces.
Self-absorption is, of course, no bad thing in rock and roll.
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Irony today is thus a mixture of self-detachment and self-absorption: an unwillingness to take a stand and an eagerness to see the strange workings of fate in mere thwarted desire.
The Great Before, goes the myth, was a time of peace, plenty and triviality, when we coasted in blissful self-absorption, drunk on day trading, egged on by a selfish, amoral popular culture.
My thesaurus lists vanity, conceit, self-importance and self-absorption.
When he spouts his off-kilter ideas, his self-absorption can be disarmingly childlike, but Mr. Sheen's performance highlights the gulf between James Dean's poignant persona and Kit's hollow posturing, his fear that the world isn't listening.
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At once a confessional and a manifesto, Mr. Fischl's book, written with Michael Stone, will move readers with its tales of a fraught life in art, engage them with its fluent exploration of art-making and likely annoy quite a few with its self-absorption and bombastic pronouncements.
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