It's not that he's in favor of ignorance or self-absorption.
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All this is made possible by Mizuko and Taylor's self-absorption.
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I'm talking about arrogance over competence, complete certainty, self-absorption, etc.
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What they sell is self-absorption as the ultimate luxury product.
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Without that, meditation can become just another tool of self-absorption.
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Men, on the other hand, are prone to ego and self-absorption.
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Upstate, it seems, is the only way to cure her self-absorption.
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" The president, he notes, was "fascinated by her self-absorption and nastiness.
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Zelensky twice tried to steer Trump toward the correct subject. Self-absorption.
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Solipsism and self-absorption traps them in the Bardo; empathy frees them.
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The usual answer seems to be "narcissism" — self-absorption indulged to comical extremes.
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His self-absorption and his extreme selfishness are also typical of sex offenders.
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His daughter in particular is credited with keeping his self-absorption in check.
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But Mackrell's documentation of their relentless self-absorption and unfiltered vanity argues against it.
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"Self-absorption is general, as is self-doubt," she'd memorably begin that Woody Allen piece.
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But in Zink's hands, Penny's self-absorption and her pretension are alternately funny and tragic.
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Especially in Washington, where self-absorption and false humility are the coins of the realm.
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But the complete integrity of Hesse's self-absorption is what guarantees the permanence of his work.
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This kind of self-absorption is a common occurrence among heroes who are actually unaware villains.
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While having a child might be an excuse for profound self-absorption, Nickerson's gaze turns outward.
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But I can see clearly his sloppiness and self-absorption, and they're cause enough for alarm.
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His self-absorption isn't appealing, even though it's understandable coming from someone so unfinished and in transition.
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Jules's self-absorption leads to occasional passages of wearying profundity, when the golden sentences begin to fray.
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It starts to challenge and leaven Lou's self-absorption, and both character and story make more sense.
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The state's generally polite churchgoing culture seems uncomfortable with the president's pettiness, self-absorption, vulgarities and vanity.
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But in songs and stage patter, she sometimes conflated self-realization and self-absorption with social progress.
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Feature Deciphering the rise of a lifestyle guru who sells self-absorption as the ultimate luxury product.
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Her mix of intensity and self-absorption has made her pretty hard to watch, especially in Season 1.
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But with an almost Trumpian act of self-absorption, he instead placed his political survival above all else.
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In this show, they take their self-absorption to its ultimate end, writing and reading their own obituaries.
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I would also say that the '90s were a period of self-absorption that we are in now.
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Regardless, "The Threat" provides more red meat for those convinced of the president's ignorance, deceit and self-absorption.
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The theme of self-absorption, or the failure to connect, extends to works featuring children in dreamlike states.
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What gladdens my heart about geese, and helps fend off the virus blues, is their complete self-absorption.
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This rococo deconstruction exemplified the very self-absorption that got us into this mess in the first place.
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But in his memoirs Mencken manages the prestidigitation of absorbing readers under his magic cloak of self-absorption.
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The V.M.A.s had taken a stand against ego, against pettiness, against self-absorption — at least for this year.
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Looking back now, Hannah's self-absorption looks less like narcissism and more like an economic and social necessity.
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It means setting aside the relentless self-absorption, self-promotion and personal-brand building that our society indulges.
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We tend to equate them with hostility and self-absorption, an idea that has been backed up by research.
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Just when her self-indulgence becomes wearying, she cuts through it with a critique of her own self-absorption.
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He was frequently a terrible boyfriend and sometimes a terrible friend, given to indecision and jealousy and self-absorption.
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Time and energy are resources, and New Yorkers never have enough of either because of capitalism and self-absorption.
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But what promises to be an appealing adult relationship sitcom becomes a sour story of self-absorption and infidelity.
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It feels like my inability to retain what is said to me in the face of my self-absorption.
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In fact, it is never entirely clear what she sees in Chinonso, for all his possessiveness and self-absorption.
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James Delos' self absorption causes his own posthumous torture, and reveals himself to be the devil of his own torment.
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A door is then opened to enlarging perspective, reducing self-absorption, and taking into account that all behavior has consequences.
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This trip through the President's brain might seem amusing if did not reveal the enormous cost of presidential self-absorption.
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She exhibits a Drake-level awareness of how to make good internet content, but none of Drake's signature self-absorption.
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I found this piece absolutely horrifying in its sheer ignorance of the depths of self-absorption and immaturity on display.
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The arrogance and self-absorption that are among our most recognizable civic traits are justified when it comes to movies.
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Like the liberal writer Mark Lilla, Caldwell reinterprets Reagan as an enabler, not an opponent, of Me Generation self-absorption.
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Maybe motherhood will help her get over her obviously deep-seated narcissism and self-absorption, and finally grow as a person.
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As "Endlings" alternates between the young playwright's self-absorption and the old divers' self-abnegation, the tone eventually spirals into surrealism.
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It also constitutes a bit of misdirection, in that there is a bigger picture outside of this chronicle of self-absorption.
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Search #ootd to browse other peoples outfits of the day, for example, or #fromwhereirun to marvel at the self-absorption of joggers.
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Much of that comes from terribly awkward interviews that Bridget's self-absorption inadvertently triggers at her day job as a TV producer.
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Meanwhile, as the Trump family consumes the nation's attention with its colossal self-absorption and ethical delinquencies, the temperature keeps rising. ♦
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Marianne's self-absorption and her demand for the adoration and fealty of the still-suffering family she abandoned, come off as monstrous.
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Ross is the worst friend in Friends and a classic unaware villain, sowing discord time after time with his stupid self-absorption.
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The meetings lacked the self-absorption, the constant turning inward, that she felt at the clinic, where she attended therapy every day.
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Its characters have core attributes that never change — lasciviousness, self-absorption, unfashionable biases of all sorts — but there is evolution as well.
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His self-absorption, narcissism, casual cruelty, lack of empathy and penchant for self-pity have not been leavened by any redeeming qualities.
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The terrible thing that happened naturally makes the crybully feel unsafe, self-protective and self-conscious to the point of self-absorption.
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Despite the self-absorption that unfortunately accompanies cancer scares, most older patients realize that there are others worse off than we are.
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Mercury meets Mars and the sun on September 223, making it a powerful day for communication, but watch out for self absorption.
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Trump's ability and willingness to put the suffering of others above his self-absorption could be tested again in the days ahead.
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Once in a while, someone else's misery penetrates the carapace of self-absorption under which you scuttle around and gets deep into you.
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I don't mean to suggest "Islands" is some sort of sophisticated critique of American self-absorption (though it's at least a nuanced one).
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But writing is a lonely, solitary activity that can breed self-absorption and myopia, especially if your job is to compose strongly defended arguments.
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It can be in the nature of successful people to display a level of ambition and self-absorption that can get up colleagues' noses.
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More important, this self-absorption not only gets in the way of the characters' best interests but can also be exasperating to a reader.
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It also interacts with what's called the default mode network (DMN), the part of the brain associated with mental chatter, self-absorption, memories, and emotions.
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Humanity's self-absorption repudiates the power of Nature, as our species' self-love has created conditions that endanger the very viability of life on earth.
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The movie is wonderful and generally quite serious, but it also has some truly hilarious moments as Day-Lewis' character reveals his total self-absorption.
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Her friends Portia (Meredith Hagner) and Elliott (John Early) are twin cyclones of self-absorption, priming every interaction they have to be more Instagram-friendly.
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Probably because his self-absorption is so grand, so total, there is seemingly no room in his heart for the pain and suffering of others.
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A notorious lone wolf loathed by his Senate colleagues, Cruz will now get to recast his overweening self-absorption and ambition as conscience and high principle.
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Leaving aside his bilious nature, his preening self-absorption, and his casual bigotry, Trump represents a tradition of American populism that dates back to the 1880s.
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It throws each person back on himself and leads to self-absorption and atomization, as everybody naturally worships the piece of God that is one's self.
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Seeing him in all of his overreach and mania and self-absorption doesn't make them second-guess their choice, but it makes them uncomfortable about it.
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Mr. Trump causes severe distress rather than experiencing it and has been richly rewarded, rather than punished, for his grandiosity, self-absorption and lack of empathy.
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The suggestion is that a teenage crush is an experience of haunting and being haunted, and that maturity comes through a process of utter, ruinous self-absorption.
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Part of "Barry's" kick comes from seeing those striving on the periphery of Hollywood -- with all the attendant self-absorption and insecurity -- through its title character's eyes.
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Cheating on the mother of your children, and leaving the mother to raise the new baby alone because you feel unhappy, seems the pinnacle of self-absorption.
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A more damaging reason that his grief comes across as stilted, though, is that Mahajan, bent on demonstrating Vikas's self-absorption, quickly scrubs him of fatherly feeling.
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Or will self-absorption and free-flowing peevishness be the hallmarks of an era of domestic and global crises, stirred up by grossly uninformed perceptions of reality?
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Sadly, Comey's self-absorption and vanity are so great that he put his book profits and media appearances ahead of what is best for the Mueller investigation.
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Santigold has released a new music video that's perfect for those who enjoy staring in the mirror a little too long, and other acts of gleeful self-absorption.
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In articles and cartoons everywhere -- from CNN to The New York Times to Gizmodo and beyond -- critics call out this generation's sense of entitlement, that generation's self-absorption.
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And when he's captured and held by the government, he becomes even more dissociated from his intentions, falling into a sybaritic haze of alcohol, sex, and self-absorption.
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His self-absorption not only hurts both Ramona and Knives but it clearly hurt his ex-girlfriend Kim Pine and is effecting his fellow bandmates (which includes Kim).
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But class and self-absorption have sealed his Higgins off in ways that feel real: he is empire and has been reared to think of himself as such.
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Since 1967, the villagers have conducted an annual exercise in collective self-analysis, self-absorption and self-motivation, turning their inner struggles, doubts, hopes and fears into art.
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Veidt seems to be subjecting himself to this to break free from the monotonous adoration from the clones, proving Doctor Manhattan wrong about Veidt's seemingly unending self-absorption.
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And if you're concerned that self-absorption, immediate gratification, and lack of empathy seem to be the prevailing characteristics of today's digital kids, these movies are the perfect solution.
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Economists got some laughs out of the incident, but think of the self-absorption required to write something like that without realizing how it would sound to non-billionaires.
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" The New Republic's longtime literary editor, Leon Wieseltier, a professional lowerer of the boom, said it was "the worst, last gasp of Reaganite, grasping, materialistic, narcissistic, banal self-absorption.
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This was from a combination of typical youthful self-absorption and a vague sense that through pensions (which my father had) and Social Security, things would just work out.
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Those include pining for a mysterious, slightly dangerous classmate and befriending a nerdy one (Hayden Szeto), while, in her self-absorption, ignoring his obvious if awkwardly expressed feelings for her.
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But we also believe that Trumpism in foreign policy is dangerous because of its belligerent nationalism, self-absorption, disdain for allies and comfort with the authoritarian leaders of the day.
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But he was more closely associated with a certain comedic tone — a relentless self-scrutiny that he passed off as self-absorption — than with any particular gag or punch line.
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In Law, Sorrentino found an actor who can embody Pius's ferocity and self-absorption with a silken smile and steely-eyed gaze that are as welcoming as they are sinister.
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On the page, other people can be perceived through the screen of a narrator's consciousness: Diana's unreality is a symptom of her husband's self-absorption, an index of his unreliability.
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I also have no doubt the aw-shucks Jimmy Stewart impersonator did all three — not out of partisanship or venality, but out of an unspeakably arrogant naïveté and self-absorption.
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The world was happening, and I was watching, he tells us again and again—but what I was watching was the world, he also insists, acquitting himself of self-absorption.
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"Our national problem is that too many of our cultural winds are blowing us in the direction of self-absorption, self-promotion, and making a barrel of money," he writes.
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Titled "Orgie I" (1967-68), it's a tangle of dark, writhing lines and masses, suggesting a pile of flesh redolent of self-absorption and animal instinct, the disconnect within physical connection.
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"Lenny" (1974), which starred Dustin Hoffman as Lenny Bruce, focused on his outspoken brand of humour as much as his self-absorption and the drug use which would eventually kill him.
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In other words, though narcissism is on the rise, media reports of millennials as almost crippled by self-absorption compared with the selfless generations of the past are a bit overblown.
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Yet we've all been guilty of inflicting this exact pain on another person, of letting our own self-absorption convince us our travel tales are somehow more interesting than someone else's.
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Missing his wife's pregnancy while working overnight just to keep his health insurance, Tolan meditates on the self-absorption of earlier songs and the way that hardships have changed his perspective.
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That really bothered Mr. Corcoran, who saw it as yet another act of disassociation and self-absorption, a thing for others to "carry" with them for the rest of their lives.
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This is a time of empty spectacle and mass distraction, of shiny surfaces reflecting their owners' self-absorption, of art as a conduit for wealth, and of angry slogans: Build that Wall!
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Live Review Self-pity, self-mockery, self-righteousness, self-loathing, self-defense — long before the era of the selfie, Morrissey was writing songs that turned constant self-absorption into a blood sport.
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Even though they comprise the body of work most often associated with Minimalism and Theatricality, the self-absorption implied by these paintings also associates them with the opposite tenet of Fried's duality.
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Just two years later, "Turn Out the Lights" is the work of a songwriter who has resonated with an international audience and who is moving beyond the apocalyptic self-absorption of adolescence.
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Adam Driver plays him with so much coiled-up charm that you might excuse his self-absorption (he's a worshiped downtown director) and fail to notice Nicole, the actress exiting his shadow.
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However, if you're losing sight of self-acceptance, and focussing only on the physical appearance of the body, you're increasing your self-absorption and narcissism, and moving further away from your authentic self.
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Storr suggests that the self-esteem fad, which went mainstream in the late 1980s and 1990s, evolved into the epidemic of digitally enhanced self-absorption from which we are said to suffer today.
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Mr. White could easily have loaded the satiric dice, emphasizing Brad's Gen-X self-absorption or Ananya's millennial self-righteousness, but he suspends judgment, leaving the viewer hanging in an exquisitely uncomfortable limbo.
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Every horror movie has to come up with some justification for the characters to not recognize what's going on until it's too late, and hilariously, here it's their self-absorption and cultural illiteracy.
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Cruz looks sensational and seems game for anything, but especially once Valentina's past as a swimsuit model is revealed, she stops being an effective foil for the clueless self-absorption of Derek and Hansel.
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Being a dad enriches them, reminds them of what is really important, diminishes their self-absorption, and fills their lives with humor, imagination, enthusiasm, a willingness to make mistakes, and a sense of wonder.
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"Maybe life's not supposed to be as meaningful as we think it is," a fellow addict says during group, perhaps realizing that self-absorption can be an even tougher habit to kick than booze.
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Though at times middle-school students are Trump-like in their blinding self-absorption, cruel ad hominem attacks and insatiable quest for attention by creating endless drama, they eventually grow up — unlike Mr. Trump.
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Yet Flaubert's early disapproval of his heroine's self-absorption, "icy charm" and vanity is curiously transformed, in the last 100 pages or so, by a softening towards, even forgiveness of, her tawdry and narcissistic escapism.
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The best part of these pages is that Gessen, in addition to some requisite self-laceration, allows Andrei to flail, mourn, fantasize and, sometimes, succeed without tipping him either into self-absorption or self-loathing.
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Emo's general argument was that the proper response to futility was not to fight against it or even to wallow in existential longing but instead to deploy an excessive, almost comical level of self-absorption.
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With its Brooklyn vibe and whiff of self-absorption, "Search Party" was devised with millennials in mind, down to the way it's meant to be binged: two episodes for five nights running, starting Monday, Nov.
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Culture, like climate, demands assessment at global scale — and if art has any objective in the Anthropocene, it's to dissolve our ecocidal self-absorption and find our reflections in the lives of those unlike us.
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With its Brooklyn vibe and whiff of self-absorption, this dark comedy was devised with millennials in mind, down to the way it's meant to be binged: two late-night episodes for five days running.
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We at Broadly don't tend to blame ourselves for stupid things like self-absorption—we are all too traumatized by the daily reminder that we live in an evil world run by a seemingly maniacal... narcissist.
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The accusations she made about Tulsi Gabbard being a Russian asset, without offering any evidence, are yet another example of her self-absorption, ignoring what is best to get a Democrat back in the White House.
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What makes Barry both so fun and so difficult to watch is that it takes the tired antihero trope and tosses it into a blender with the self-absorption and glossy, often fruitless dreams of Hollywood hopefuls.
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He argues that, in "Douglas," Gadsby "makes a party out of self-absorption," and he questions her confession that she, a person with autism, was referred to as "retarded" by a former lover in a group text.
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" Craig Morgan, covering the event for FOX Sports Arizona, panned it as "a classic case of self-absorption," before going on to mock the children's chant from hours earlier: "You don't want to be like DaVonte' Neal.
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Decades before characters on reality programs like "The Osbournes" and "Dance Moms" one-upped each other's outrageousness, the Louds were criticized both for participating in "An American Family" and for their displays of self-absorption on camera.
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The characters are less mythic "horseman cowboy" and more maudlin grad-student cowboy whose woman is leaving him: an interesting revision of a tired Western plot, maybe, but not when it's mostly the result of self-absorption.
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There's a plot, of sorts, but mostly, it's a chance for the man behind Beavis and Butt-head and Silicon Valley to crack cynical, despairing, and routinely hilarious gags about America's increasingly aggressive commercialism, crassness, and self-absorption.
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As a director, Franco does feel as if he pulls up a bit in places, especially near the end -- as if his underlying fondness for this misguided dreamer softens the problematic aspects of his self-absorption and cluelessness.
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When the House declares him worthy of removal from office, however, the very flaws that got Trump to this point -- the absence of humility, lack of integrity and his self-absorption -- will keep him on a destructive path.
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"Imagination, working at full strength, can shake us out of our fatal, adoring self-absorption and make us look up and see—with terror or with relief—that the world does not in fact belong to us at all."
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Even if Trump once had some negotiating aptitude — his biographers say it was rare — we have seen his art-of-the-deal aspirations evaporate in a cloud of self-absorption, as one tableau of legislative chaos after another unfolds.
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Mourning what happened in Hue reminds us Americans of our self-absorption in how we think about our role in the war and our unwillingness to learn more about "others," which even today haunts American policies toward other countries.
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That movie was divisive — it's bold and funny in the ugliest of ways, and the protagonist (played by Charlize Theron) is beautifully acted, but it's also about a repulsive character who never repents, and ultimately doubles down on her self-absorption.
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There is also, inevitably, the ebb and flow of key relationships, most notably the impediment-laden romance between Piper (Taylor Schilling) and Alex (Laura Prepon), who saunter through the mayhem surrounding them with near-equal doses of bickering and self-absorption.
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My instinct is that the ideal review might be drifting toward something that draws together the usefulness of both formats, pushing aside both the surface-level analysis of the capsule review and the writerly self-absorption of the more essayistic review.
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As Warhol did, Marisol turned self-absorption into an art form, incorporating casts of her own body parts and images of her face into works like "The Party," whose 13 figures and two servants all derived from her own features.
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Having followed its key characters as they drunkenly stumbled (sometimes literally, usually not) through their 20s, any ending seemed destined to represent merely a moment in time, what with so many years and so much self-absorption ahead of them.
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Mr. Trump's self-absorption, impulsiveness, lack of empathy, obsessive focus on slights, tenuous grasp of facts and penchant for sometimes far-fetched conspiracy theories have generated endless op-ed columns, magazine articles, books, professional panel discussions and cable television speculation.
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It's hard to fathom that the same person who wrote "Trust Me, I'm Lying," a bombastic treatise on the art of self-promotion through media manipulation, went on to write a meditation on the perils of self-absorption and pride.
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The Trump-ification of politics is as much about what we want from the news as how we process it; The Discourse works as a proxy for mood-enhancement that feeds individualistic self-absorption rather than solidifying collective opinion or will.
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I sometimes miss my prenatal self-absorption the way I miss another old friend, my college feminism: Everything was so much more easily contained in the theoretical, individual realm, and I had so much more free time to talk about it there.
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As the movie begins, she's caught up in all the intoxicating self-absorption that comes with being a teenager, and it leaves her unable to fully register the people around her as human beings with their own feelings and tragedies outside of brief, fleeting glances.
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Self-absorption is the basic motif here, a point underscored by the fact that every time the central duo aren't around their theater colleagues seemingly have nothing to talk about except the state of the couple's relationship, with no apparent lives of their own.
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Yet the book's somber moments are balanced by lighter ones, especially those featuring Iris's classmates and the energetic girls of her after-school Awesome Club, all of whom she has discounted in her self-absorption, but who turn out to be supportive, and critical at the end.
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While the movie adaptation helped transform a book about exclusionary gatekeeping into a more accessible international blockbuster, the novel itself remains a marvel of self-absorption, and one grounded firmly in the vague, overly idealistic values of digital "freedom" that have turned the internet into a nightmare machine.
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A democratic society is designed for the giving and taking of offense, and if you have the privilege of living in one, you should thicken your skin — instead of what's happening now, with fear and self-absorption hiding behind all kinds of grievances that inhibit other people from speaking.
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And then she slips into stubborn self-absorption: She gets frustrated with her baby for refusing to breast-feed, blames her mother for her shortcomings, storms away from her house and child, loses her pants, and returns late at night to finally connect emotionally and physically with the baby.
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I refused to see her deterioration, assumed it was the alcohol, the bipolar disorder, the sheer self-absorption she threw across her shoulders like a shawl that was responsible for incoherent late night calls, a refrigerator without food, her refusal to leave the house for fear she would get lost.
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With no end in sight to these revelations, movie publicists have been struggling to figure out how stars should handle the topic of sexual misconduct as they campaign for the Oscars — a three-month stretch of self-absorption that starts now and ends with the Academy Awards on March 4.
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The story she constructed, set in the summer of 1938, keeps you wanting to know more, particularly as we are brought closer to La Prairie and its house party of gilded expats, one more lithe, epigrammatic and oblique than the next, united only by their reliance on Sara and by their self-absorption.
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Ms. Feiring is occasionally prone to eye-rolling self-absorption — asserting, for example, that she wasn't the first to discover Barolo, which is a little like reminding people that she didn't discover fire — and to unconvincing statements that seem primarily ideological, as in a wholesale rejection of first-growth Bordeaux since 1986.
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The lone self has been the sacred cow of lyric poetry since the ancient Greeks, and there's no way to sever that link permanently, but a vacation now and then from self-absorption to look around and see what the rest of the human race has been up to can do wonders to one's poetry.
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At a time when poverty and environmental ruin are ravaging the world, it requires a profound level of self-absorption for one of the richest men alive to donate $240 billion and control over one of the earth's most important companies to the nerd who fixates the most on the pet obsessions of his teenage years.
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What is clear from these two new books, however, is that there is something about his disappearing act that transcends mere isolation or self-absorption, that has special resonance in the country where he was raised and where much of his fiction is nominally set—a country that has never fully come to terms with its dark origins.
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A decorated combat hero, he nevertheless found it incredibly difficult to talk about himself — a legacy from his mother, who discouraged self-reference and self-absorption by saying that no one wanted to hear about the Great I Am. As a child, Mr. Bush was nicknamed Have-Half for his tendency to split any treats in two to share with friends.
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" I found a balm for Sharapovian self-absorption in Simon Critchley's slim WHAT WE THINK ABOUT WHEN WE THINK ABOUT SOCCER (Penguin, $20), whose title is an obvious nod to Haruki Murakami's "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" (its own title a nod to a Raymond Carver story) and whose green cover seems copied from last year's David Foster Wallace collection of tennis writing, "String Theory.
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Whether on barstools in the hyper-exclusive "speakeasy" clubs, or standing in a three-hour queue for a table at Rose's Luxury, or tittering like adolescents at the celebrities who annually grace the White House Correspondents' Dinner with their godly presence, or gazing as one into the Narcissus pool of Twitter feeds, the Washington elite with its undisguised self-absorption provides a bounty for "Veep" and other TV satires.
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In electing him, ardent supporters took him as a showman given to self-absorption and exaggeration; while, for more tepid supporters, the Democrats' howling about Donald Trump's, shall we say, economical relationship with the truth was not very persuasive given that they had chosen to nominate Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonHillary Clinton: Trump using 'racist' rhetoric to distract from failures Biden has broken all the 'rules' of presidential primaries Trump taps new director for National Counterterrorism Center MORE.
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