Who knew the French were so egocentric — wait, scratch that.
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A psychologist explains the difference between being selfish and egocentric.
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The writing led you to the egocentric moments that were funny.
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Their characters were often slow talkers, sportscasters or mildly egocentric radio hosts.
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"It just goes to show how egocentric the president is," Hirono said.
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He is the figurehead of our egocentric culture, and that's why he's there.
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She acts as both a gentle lover and an egocentric, vengeful parent figure.
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Mr. McBride's oafish egocentric bad guy persona is starting to yield diminishing returns.
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Four-year-olds, contrary to popular belief, are not egocentric or self-centered.
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No one really gets cocky or egocentric when it comes to what they're doing.
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" She was nonpartisan in her attacks: Camille Paglia was a "crassly egocentric raving twit.
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But why have these three, very different but equally egocentric people been brought together?
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That "egocentric worldview," he argued, is the reason we've taken to plundering the natural world.
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A string of egocentric assholes who wanted to keep me small so that they felt bigger.
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Why let Steph Curry get injured in a meaningless match against an egocentric Houston Rockets team?
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One of our most notorious egocentric monsters —Milo Yiannopoulos—recently attacked frequent Drag Race judge Ross Matthews.
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And also the antics and the egocentric things that were happening between the lawyers was very interesting insight.
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Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office.
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And President Trump's characteristically egocentric reaction, focusing exclusively on how it affects him, is likewise, sadly, in character.
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I ran down there to find Jackson, the great egocentric slugger, leaning against the hood and holding court.
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Who doesn't know somebody who fits the bill to varying degrees — accomplished, charismatic, smart, and witty but alarmingly egocentric?
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It was so shameless in a way, and it was part of his charm, too, how egocentric he was.
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"You and I and everybody in the western world, we have a tendency to be very egocentric," he said.
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The difference between being selfish and being egocentric Selfishness is being concerned with one's own outcomes and disregarding others'.
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For most of this decade, the genre's male stars have been strutters: egocentric, bumblingly flirtatious, a little dunce-y.
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Egocentric rationality consists in placing these dispositions in the service of satisfying our personal desires and advancing our self-interest.
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And just like with Alice, so it is with Daniel: Nothing is more eccentric in our egocentric world than generosity.
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" Fox on Thursday used profanity while blasting Trump's proposed barrier, adding that the real estate tycoon is "crazy" and "egocentric.
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With that kind of attention, one could very easily become a conceited braggart at best, an egocentric maniac at worst.
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For example, one study found that egocentric women showed hyperactivity of certain cardiovascular indicators that are linked to heart disease.
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But toddlers are just so egocentric and it's just a stage that some people don't grow out of, let's be real.
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The basic argument of "Rationality and the Structure of the Self" is organized around the distinction between egocentric and transpersonal rationality.
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"He is aggressive, demanding, autocratic, egocentric and, under the right circumstances, very good at his job," Mr. Bernheimer allowed in 20103.
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You see a lot of C.E.O.s who are very egocentric, domineering people who succeed just because they have a great idea.
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Trump burnished the image with egocentric declarations and then, at some point, adopted the larger-than-life persona as a permanent avatar.
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All of the egocentric fanfare belied any genuine designs, rendering a philanthropic effort down to a perceived vanity outing for self-satisfaction.
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What initially reads like a wry, sharply pointed, if familiar, comedy of egocentric sophisticates gains depth and emotional magnitude as it goes.
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We have this really egocentric concept of the cosmos, that it's elections, and the next leader, our leader, one person—it's ridiculous.
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" And the egocentric practice of bragging about your social life online: "Prove you've met your pop idol and send the pictures straight away.
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"Barrick's egocentric proposal is designed to transfer value from Newmont's shareholders to Barrick," Newmont's chief executive, Gary Goldberg, said on an investor call.
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Similarly, the authors found some evidence of an egocentric bias; that is, we tend to think God looks more like us than other people.
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At every step of the way, Trump found a way to double and triple down on his xenophobic, hate-filled, egocentric and isolationist views.
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Much of our emotional distress is caused by being too egocentric, and the linguistic switch of using third person can provide much-needed perspective.
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It sounds so egocentric, but I wasn't really that focussed on what Thomas was doing at the party—I only cared about my experience.
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Wealth and access to technology makes many of us egocentric, and that means we're insensitive toward our partners and their needs ("Don't Say"). 5.
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"I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world, and many of us, what we're guilty of is an egocentric worldview," Phoenix said.
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That doesn't mean being a navel-gazer, narcissistic, or egocentric, but giving yourself permission to place your personal happiness above that of others at times.
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Varoufakis then began a career as a kind of professional victim, a tragic hero to his fans and a self-aggrandizing egocentric to his critics.
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By the Book The economist Dambisa Moyo, author most recently of "Edge of Chaos," loves Agatha Christie's "detestable, bombastic, tiresome, egocentric little creep" Hercule Poirot.
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As the novel follows Fred's recollection of his early years, its moral preoccupations turn on the uncertainty of how selfless or egocentric Lenny really is.
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Oliver Butler ("What the Constitution Means to Me") directs a presumably very busy six-member cast, led by Joe Curnutte as the egocentric title character.
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Our indifference to the experiences of those "not like us," coupled with our own egocentric priorities, places us in the reality that we find ourselves in.
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" He added, "I'm sure people will criticize F.J.M. for being egocentric, self-absorbed, but I find the J. Tillman stuff much more deserving of that criticism.
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When Khosrowshahi arrived in a suit and driving a Volvo, Shapiro thought, "he's going to be this arrogant, egocentric, just ... douche," she told The New Yorker.
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There's an egocentric fallacy in a choose-your-own-adventure: that you alone, represented by the protagonist, have volition and the ability to change your decisions.
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During this transit, which lasts until August 18, "Arguments will take on a fiery, passionate, egocentric energy and will go on until there's a winner," Stardust says.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Veterans of Zimbabwe's independence war made a significant break with President Robert Mugabe for the first time on Thursday, calling him dictatorial, manipulative and egocentric.
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" She identified intensely with Plath, another brilliant, privileged, charismatic young woman who, in her journal, accuses herself of being just another " SELFISH, EGOCENTRIC, JEALOUS AND UNIMAGINATIVE FEMALE .
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As a social psychologist who studies people's perceptions of their impact on others, I would argue that it is because people — all of us included —are egocentric.
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"Fighting with allies is hard, just look back at World War II," Mr. Stivers said, likening Mr. Bliss to Bernard Montgomery, the capable but egocentric British general.
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At the time of his death, Hartman had just finished filming on the fourth season of underrated sitcom "NewsRadio," playing the bombastic and egocentric radio broadcaster Bill McNeal.
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" Baron tells it differently, saying Cheese organized the mass exodus of top employees out of personal "vengeance," and that Cheese was the one who was "egocentric and hostile.
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A self-centered, egocentric billionaire being represented as Robin Hood by saying he will take from the rich and the corrupted and give it back to the poor.
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The Village Voice, Spy magazine and other publications made her the butt of satires, portraying her as an egocentric, mistake-prone partisan, using columns to promote her friends.
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For instance, Jeff's mother, Patty, in an astounding turn by Miranda Richardson, is a slovenly, resentful, egocentric drunk who frequently prioritizes her hangovers over Jeff's physical rehabilitation appointments.
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It's easy to assign a negative value to the baroquely egocentric moreness that is part and parcel of "Selfish" in particular, and the Kim Kardashian West phenomenon in general.
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Because the story of the maverick, egocentric automaker, whose name is practically synonymous with the excesses of the midcentury American car industry, is ready-made for the silver screen.
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But the trash-talking, egocentric has been out of the fight game except for his boxing dalliance with Mayweather that made him wealthy enough to never have to fight again.
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Gratitude, in the experiential sense, requires that we wade back into the current of unreflective consciousness, which, to the egocentric mind, can easily feel like an annihilation of consciousness altogether.
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Although malignant narcissism is not officially recognized in medical literature as it is an experimental diagnostic category, it is thought that malignant narcissists tend to be aggressive, antisocial, and egocentric.
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Sensitive, intelligent and massively egocentric, Jackson had a reputation for clashing with his teammates, managers, and owners, as well as a tendency to treat post-game interviews like therapy sessions.
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I just hope one day you're brave enough to look at these real, and disconcerting issues surrounding racial/justice inequality from a holistic point of view instead of an egocentric one.
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" But when I start to mention a Tom Wolfe satire of post-modernists, Bowie bridles at the name: "Oh, I admire the fluency of his writing, but he's a very egocentric writer.
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I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world and many of us, what we're guilty of is an egocentric worldview — the belief that we're the center of the universe.
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I think that we've become very disconnected from the natural world and many of us, what we're guilty of is an egocentric worldview, the belief that we're the center of the universe.
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Sometimes you're just stuck in that room with that egocentric soliloquy and that spousal blind spot, so you might as well find a soft chair and go to your mental happy place.
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Earlier this week, the creators of the Go90 web series Like and Subscribe, which revolves around internet-famous, egocentric characters, decided to create their own angel wing mural as the ultimate selfie backdrop.
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His life was one long brilliant bluff, and the things that make him exasperating—his vanity and closed-mindedness; his unearned sense of superiority and egocentric blindness—were also why the bluffs worked.
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The president has been on a rally marathon in which he alternates between saying things that are meant to whip his audience into rage and things that are just wildly egocentric and imaginary.
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I think I was more egocentric in my early efforts, as I flew solo and wanted to fill my grids with tons of never-before-seen entries to make a name for myself.
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He starts out being very egocentric, but he's getting angrier and angrier as it goes along, and pretty soon at the very end he's right in Jesus's face — he's so tired of this guy.
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The big problem with the Never Trump movement was that it largely only talked to itself; sealed off from real-world fights, it was a callow, egocentric, and weak-willed attempt to resist Trump's rise.
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Early studies focused on the many negatives society falsely believed about only children, like the idea that a child would become headstrong, selfish, egocentric, competitive, excessively spoiled and unable to share if raised by themselves.
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But the young woman who spent her formative years in the boisterous landscape of fabulists that was the Chelsea Hotel did so more as an amused observer — preternaturally wise and self-deprecating — than an egocentric performer.
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"I didn't think the vain, egocentric talk-show host character" that winds up meeting with Kim Jong Un "would be the president of the United States, but it seems like a possible dynamic nonetheless," Rogen said.
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Yeezy's aggressive and egocentric rhymes collide with Death Cab's sad-sack minor chord progressions and Ben Gibbard's calming voice to produce something that's fun to listen to and a bit more upbeat than the average DCFC record.
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"It's true that in the tennis world we are all a bit egocentric, a bit focused on our own little thing, our own little concerns, and we sometimes forget a bit to open up to others," Cornet said.
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So is the perplexed combination of guilt and affection, common among egocentric family men, that pervades his relationships with his wife, Eliza (Rachelle Ann Go); her sister Angelica Schuyler (Rachel John); and his doomed son, Philip (Cleve September).
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Is it egocentric that I enjoy looking back at the Garmin maps of places I've been and hiked and ran, or that I want to see if my resting heart rate is lower than it was the day before?
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But the point is that it takes a certain almost egocentric sense of your own rightness, that what you're doing is OK. I don't know if it's even confidence, so much as it's just that sense that you're right.
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Nuclear disarmament will occur not through the caprice of an egocentric president, but through a renewed grass-roots global movement to halt a gratuitous nuclear arms race and to rid the Earth of nuclear weapons before we suffer an actual nuclear catastrophe.
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"People's tendency to believe in a God that looks like them is consistent with an egocentric bias," Professor Kurt Gray, the study's senior author and a psychology professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, said in a press release.
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The plot of Vice Principals seems, at first, charmingly simple: Two high school vice principals—the crass, monstrously egocentric Neal Gamby and slick-talking, secretly sociopathic Lee Russell, played by Danny McBride and Walton Goggins, respectively—in a power struggle over the vacant principal's chair.
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The media personality, known for her frankness, said that it was "quite egocentric" of the West to be suspicious of China's rise as Europe and the U.S. have led global development in the past without much of a challenge from the rest of the international community.
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I believe that the lack of architectural presence in the article is not an oversight by the reporter, but rather an oversight by the tech community and our own profession for a willingness to perpetuate the myth that all we care about is formal, egocentric virtuosity.
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Dennis MiddlebrooksBrooklyn To the Editor: It is inevitable that Turkey and the United States will be at loggerheads, not because they have major disagreements over policies, but because they have two egocentric leaders who feel that whatever they do is right and who cannot take any criticism.
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As the widowed patriarch Walter, Danny Glover shows his mastery of playing it bighearted; Gabrielle Union and Omar Epps have real charm and chemistry as former high school sweethearts thrown together for the holidays; and J. B. Smoove does his egocentric Lothario bit with customary aplomb.
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"I'm pretty allergic to the egocentric idea that it's all down to my taste, but I have to confess that I have always had this huge interest in early-20th-century fiction by women — what academics would call middlebrow, and I would call a good read," Beauman said.
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"Trump is in many ways the diametric opposite of a typical Chinese bureaucrat: brash, confrontational and unapologetically egocentric, whose main rhetorical line is that through him, you (the voter) will retrieve your lost pride in your country," said Gilliam Hamilton, head of NSBO China Policy Research in Beijing.
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"Trump is in many ways the diametric opposite of a typical Chinese bureaucrat: brash, confrontational and unapologetically egocentric, whose main rhetorical line is that through him, you (the voter) will retrieve your lost pride in your country," Gilliam Hamilton, head of NSBO China Policy Research in Beijing, told CNBC.
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"It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer," Bill Gates, whose philanthropy focuses on global poverty, said during a session on Reddit last year in response to a question about Calico, the Google spinoff.
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"I'm pretty allergic to the egocentric idea that it's all down to my taste, but I have to confess that I have always had this huge interest in early 20th-century fiction by women — what academics would call middlebrow, and I would call a good read," Beauman said.
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Trying not to sound too egocentric or self-aggrandizing about it at the end of the day if you are putting together two companies that big and I also thought if you did that you could get not just synergies which you heard us talk about Jim Cramer: Which you were talking about some very big numbers.
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But "The Prom," a musical about a group of egocentric Broadway actors invading a Midwestern town to support a lesbian who wants to bring her girlfriend to her prom, has its cheerleaders, as does "Tootsie," a hit show based on the 1982 film about a struggling actor who finds stardom by passing himself off as a woman.
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"Those Englishmen and Americans who envision plans for and approach the problems of lasting peace have an egocentric view of the world and think primarily in terms of Europe, the Western World, the balance of power in Asia, and appear to take for granted a return to something akin to the pre-war African and Asiatic status quo," Tate writes.
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The mainstream media's takeaway from Round One of the three-round Clinton-Trump title match has now solidified, and the pundit consensus is that Democratic nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE successfully got The Donald's goat, revealing his true nature as an egocentric bully and misogynist who is easily baited into trying to defend indefensibly boorish and ethically questionable behavior in his past.
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