The words "I" and "my" should come easily to Trump's lips because these are strikingly self-centered words and he is unusually self-centered.
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We are disappointed to find that the self-taught are also self-centered, although a moment's reflection should tell us that you have to be self-centered to become self-taught.
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He is incredibly self-centered and narcissistic (and clearly an alcoholic).
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But it also showed how deeply self-centered the president is.
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Sure, sometimes Rachel is a little (okay, a lot) self-centered.
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She can also be a bit self-centered and frustratingly stubborn.
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Maps are the perfect tool to change humans' self-centered dynamic.
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But, being a self-centered medical influencer can be financially lucrative.
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Germany will carry on exporting unemployment by its self-centered economic growth.
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My generation has been accused of being vain, self-centered, and immature.
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You are likely irked by this because self-centered people are irksome.
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He is self-centered and egotistic and does nothing to hide it.
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It would seem self-centered to just have that belong to us.
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Narcissists are generally self-centered, arrogant, thin-skinned and hostile when challenged.
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" Van Vechten described her as a "completely self-centered and dedicated person.
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There are stark differences: Nas's Nasir feels distinctly lonely and self-centered.
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Unfortunately, that person is also self-centered, selfish, and sometimes self-deluded.
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Instead, it's showing how Ilana's self-centered approach to the subject backfired.
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Just like a crass, vulgar, self-centered, narcissistic — I mean, my God.
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I'm not saying that comedians are not, by their nature, self-centered.
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But Rourke's flirtation with a pugilism career was fleeting and self-centered.
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But capitalist culture enforces the myth of the privatized, self-centered self.
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For one, his vision of a high-quality preschool is awfully self-centered.
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But could your feelings of isolation be making you a little self-centered?
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Her problem isn't the fact that the teachers are way too self-centered.
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It was because I was looking at people who are not self-centered.
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I struggle to find a more elaborate, gutsy, self-centered, and inspired troll.
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I worry that I am too self-centered and egotistical, arrogant and vain.
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Where Jedi are more about the community, the Sith are completely self-centered.
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We were that caught up in our self-centered obsession with hair dye.
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Four-year-olds, contrary to popular belief, are not egocentric or self-centered.
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The problem was Trump's personality, which he considered pathologically impulsive and self-centered.
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Jax's defense for his subterfuge isn't even that good, since it's deeply self-centered.
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But it's certainly not the only answer with such a self-centered world view.
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He is a self-centered model and a bit of a muse to Nola.
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People love to complain how sensitive they are and how self-centered they are.
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" Another wrote: "I really don't get people that are as [self-centered as] this.
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Millennials consistently get a bad rap for being lazy, self-centered, and financially irresponsible.
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But calling a generation used to taking selfies self-centered by default seems shortsighted.
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In a way, the border wall versus sanctuary arguments may be too self-centered.
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In comparison to dogs, cats can make finicky, moody, often self-centered wedding guests.
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Air travel is annoying enough without self-centered parents making it even more so.
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He's the perfect embodiment of the "Me" generation — loud, obnoxious, self-centered, self-absorbed.
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People with this condition are frequently described as arrogant, self centered, manipulative and demanding.
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She often presented self-centered segments as moments that would help the common good.
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Like his father, Tariq's self-centered and naïve actions have grave consequences for others.
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Like so much of his thinking, it's so self-centered and unaware and infuriating.
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The original, self-centered Animal Crossing story made this so simple: Here is a game.
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That self-centered tweet destroyed what should have been a boon to the Trump campaign.
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But we used as evidence [for God's presence] every self-centered trick in the book.
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The self-centered tilt of his writing, however, is also chalked up as a flaw.
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There is a racist, climate-denying, xenophobic, self-centered, sexual harasser in The White House.
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The children are being dangerously ignored by their self-centered, screen-focused, me-generation parents.
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Certainly, this man's idea of sexual gratification — entirely self-centered — offers nothing to the world.
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That self-centered sensibility has been on full display since the outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Another is a braggadocious rapper, while a Type-A personality belts out self-centered pop.
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Sometimes you got to be a little self-centered and do what's best for you.
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With such a shameless, self-centered mercenary running around, who would ever look twice at Hank?
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Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered. Narcisstocracy?
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Never mind that Billy is extremely self-centered, not particularly thoughtful, and isn't a good boyfriend.
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While I am both self-centered and grandiose, I know that I'm not the very worst.
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Search Party is a show about four friends living standard, self-centered millennial lives in NYC.
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The profile of Trump that emerges is of an arrogant, obsessive, dishonest, and self-centered man.
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The protagonists of acclaimed women's fiction these days tend to be glamorous, self-centered, and cynical.
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Why don't we look at that and instinctively say, that is such a self-centered celebration?
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Viewers also know that Valencia is very self-centered, and she's probably not right for Josh.
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Men with these profiles have less empathy and are more self-centered than non-violent men.
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People may simply have returned to more individualistic, self-centered views of society and the economy.
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The big appeal of this show is that these characters' self-centered concerns feel so real.
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Others, though, found requests to announce themselves as "safe" to be redundant, self-centered, or both.
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Fellow "Grey's Anatomy" couple Callie and Arizona didn't work because both partners were overly self-centered.
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Trump, self-centered and self-absorbed, thought his revolution was about him but he's wrong; 30.
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We also may judge others for taking selfies, and find other peoples' self-centered photo habits annoying.
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They're self-centered and petty, and some of the plotlines centered on meaningless fights are cringingly skippable.
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However, as Dunham's apology letter progressed, some accused the Girls star and creator of being self-centered.
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The sentence the military judge will impose on Tali-Bowe Bergdahl isn't about one self-centered deserter.
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To be in crisis is a profoundly self-centered state, one I'd been in for eighteen months.
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But to be fair, Hannah is being — not for the first time — super self-centered and unsupportive.
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And look, call me self-centered, but I can think of one minority they could start with.
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And that thing is Twitter, of course, the medium of choice for self-centered journalists like myself.
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She's kind of bossy, has a bit of a mean streak, and comes off as self-centered.
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Jack, who starts out in the series as a bit self-centered, radiates compassion in this issue.
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If we're to avoid living down to our self-centered nickname, our post-23 narrative must change.
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Our president is a self-centered, bullying, boorish oaf, with no concern for others, only for himself.
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Employees with this personality type have a bloated sense of accomplishment and are self-centered and condescending.
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Kali is a self-centered vigilante living out a Kill Bill narrative from an empty warehouse in Chicago.
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Unlike real humans, who can be self-centered and detached, chatbots have a dog-like loyalty and selflessness.
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It's seriously flawed — it doesn't know how to handle its political angle; it's self-centered; it's navel-gazey.
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They're self-centered and negative as hell, but their fantasy lives are too compelling to turn away from.
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She's very self-centered and doesn't really listen to other people, and there are underlying reasons for that.
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Human beings are very subjective, and very biased, and very self-centered in how we view the world.
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All of these characters are entering the film from a very self-centered, socially unaware point of view.
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Of course I respect that this is, but it is a somewhat self-centered choice to set-up.
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This data flies in the face of the stereotype of millennials as self-centered, short-sighted, and entitled.
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"Not to sound self-centered, but it feels like I'm chosen, in a way, to do this stuff."
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They are self-centered and cynical, manipulating resentment with half-truths and untruths, accommodating the loony extremist right.
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It sounds self-centered to say, so pretentious, but I feel so truly different from anyone I've met.
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The same is true with traditional networking, which is inherently self-centered, and can make you feel gross.
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Graham-Felsen lets boys be boys: messy-brained, impulsive, goatish, self-centered, outwardly gutsy but often inwardly terrified.
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Where Trump is self-centered, Democrats dared to care for kids and the poor and the working class.
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No actor could have better played a character who transforms from a self-centered jerk to generous Samaritan.
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You've become one of the bastards we hated: An egomaniacal, Self-centered, Self-serving, Self-deceived, Mega-corporate Prick!
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"You're not my family, you're the most self-centered human ever," Spencer tells his sister in one testy moment.
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On that note: How can you be so self centered yet so warm and nurturing at the same time?
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Adam's film will either be stunningly beautiful or achingly self-centered; either way, Hannah doesn't want to see it.
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Some people have pushed the false belief that millennials are lazy and self-centered — and like it that way.
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That book was a syringe of empathy injected directly into my self-centered, entitled 15-year-old male heart.
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But the death of romance is rarely just about a self-centered boyfriend who forgets to send you flowers.
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As a Democrat, she's also not a fan of Mr. Trump, whom she describes as a self-centered bully.
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Though an increasingly ominous thunderstorm is raging outside, terminally self-centered humanity is the real agent of destruction here.
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His non-stop, self-centered leaking is why Steve was fired from the White House in the first place.
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That being said, Aniston more than delivers as Willowdean's former teen beauty queen turned self-centered mom, Rosie Dickson.
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She is idealistic and hypocritical; self-centered and generous; a rebel and a conformist; an enthusiast and a skeptic.
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Our view of the world — still so new to us — is uni-centric, self-centered: one person, one animal.
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Normally, Mars powers us through our daily life, with a healthy dose of self-centered focus and plenty of vim.
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People often assume that only children are spoiled, self-centered, aggressive, narcissistic, dependent, weird, and don't work well with others.
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Vain, self-centered people will likely find aging less tolerable than those who seek meaning in life by helping others.
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Edgar certainly comes off as a self-centered asshole, but the transphobia feels like it comes out of left field.
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"I admire people like Hanif who put so much of themselves into something without seeming self-centered," she tells me.
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At home, Clark and his careless, self-centered pothead of a father (Greg Germann) engage in a war of attrition.
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"The prime minister became ego-centric and self-centered, refusing to listen," Maoist chief Prachanda, said in parliament on Friday.
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Related to this, idiocy (from the root idios, "one's own") was the state of a private or self-centered person.
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If you're an artist, the self-centered belief in yourself as especially attuned to the truth is a leap of faith.
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Ironically, impression management and contingent self-esteem can end up making a person a bit self-centered and hurt our relationships.
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It's a canny choice; Brendan is so deeply self-centered that of course we only see him through his own eyes.
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Others called her post "selfish and self-centered" because she complained about pregnancy when so many other women struggle with infertility.
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My sweet, kind, and beautiful daughter was a mean girl: self-centered, judgmental, unaccepting of others who were different from her.
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And she took particular offense at Trump's claim that he "alone" could fix the country's problems, characterizing it as self-centered.
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If an employee is self-centered, overconfident, or constantly talks about following the rules, you may have toxicity on your hands.
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He let me know that I was being selfish and self-centered and that there was a deficit in my character.
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As he saw it, he was once self-centered and angry, prone to barking orders at his family and co-workers.
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Their considered and long-term approach is cast in direct opposition to the self-centered showman now inhabiting the White House.
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"I had just started my PhD, and at times it felt like an incredibly self-centered journey," she told VICE Impact.
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Frances has fallen in love with falling out of love, and even Julian sees her decision as rash and self-centered.
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Over the years, we've had the pleasure of him evolving from a self-centered dickhead to a caring and responsible friend.
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On Wall Street, Jack is a stereotypically self-centered powerhouse, more interested in wearing designer suits than having any meaningful relationships.
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The more divided we are, the more chaotic our politics; the more self-centered our leadership, the less secure we are.
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There is an ultimate freedom from all of that self-centered worry about how they appear to others that is marvelous.
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For example, when speaking with a self-centered toxic relative, she&aposs looking for a certain type of reaction from you.
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Being self-sufficient is positive (thanks, "good enough" Mom and Dad), but always meeting my needs before others is self-centered.
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So the Trumpian response to crisis is completely self-centered, entirely focused on making Trump look good rather than protecting America.
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The rhetorical challenge is to adduce a unity—akin to herding cats—among a multitude of self-centered interests and causes.
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"His non-stop, self-centered leaking is why Steve was fired from the White House in the first place," Christie added.
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" Umwelt stresses an organism's self-centered, subjective world, which represents only a small tranche of all available worlds," de Waal explains.
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At times, House of Cards has turned this into a critique of the political system, but a cynical, self-centered one.
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Yet both are known for self-centered, narcissistic personalities — and these, perhaps were sired by the emotional austerity of their childhoods.
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Hugh Grant goes all in on Paddington 2, embodying the evil, self-centered, washed-up actor named Phoenix Buchanan with complete abandon.
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On the flip side, it's often assumed that only children are terrible in relationships, because they're self-centered and unable to compromise.
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In the final episode, Amadi directly calls out Annie for being self-centered when there is clearly shit happening in his life.
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They see in Colbert's actions a particularly egregious example of the media conspiracy against the President, orchestrated by arrogant, self-centered elites.
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After 10 episodes watching this couple, I wish I felt more invested, but everyone — including cheated-on Pino — seems extremely self centered.
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Empathy makes the tale of Pizza Rat so much cuter Basically, the free rat acted like an self-centered, cocoa-fueled jerkwad.
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But Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston cautioned not to fall for the self-centered caricature often depicted of today's youth.
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As Annie gets louder and, at times, more self-centered, we can see the rush she derives from finally putting herself first.
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We can't think of another television series that introduces a sympathetic main character who slowly becomes diabolical, greedy, self-centered, and cruel.
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It only compounds the narcissism and the self-centered nature of not so much digital media or technology, but our contemporary culture.
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Baker emerges as a frightened, defiant, arrogant and entirely self-centered musician, who, by his own admission, excelled at only one thing.
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"Would Americans be more sensitive, less self-centered, more willing to make sacrifices, less afraid of differences now than they were then?"
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The self-centered voice of the ego has to be quieted before a person is capable of freely giving and receiving love.
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This self-centered bias is common in other areas of life — we all tend to think that other people share our preferences.
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The study still offers insight into an age-old trope that suggests younger generations are inherently more self-centered than older ones.
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Populist politicians share a message that the elites in, for instance Washington, Paris, Berlin and London, are corrupt, evil and self-centered.
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The hiccup is that Eleanor is actually an incredibly mean and self-centered person, who knows she doesn&apost actually belong there.
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In Cleckley's eyes, psychopaths are charming, self-centered, dishonest, guiltless and callous people who lead aimless lives devoid of deep interpersonal attachments.
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The plot involves an ambitious, self-centered racer who rubs everybody the wrong way, then redeems himself by winning an Olympic gold medal.
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What's more, almost any reader who peruses the story is apt to feel embarrassed because the account is so bloated and self-centered.
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He also said Trump needed to "apologize" to the conservative movement for being arrogant, self-centered and for clashing with the tea party.
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Her last major TV role was playing self-centered divorcée Jules in the ABC and (later) TBS comedy Cougar Town from 2009-2015.
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It's a one-sided portrait of a marriage, and it feels self-centered, which can make this enormous book feel a little claustrophobic.
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It is absolutely critical for us to dilute our ego from its self-centered and self-absorbed state to the universal selfless state.
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I decided to take a selfie and put it on the backpack, which is probably self-centered and narcissistic, but I don't care.
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" On celebrities besides Hiddleswift he loves "It’s hard when you’re so self-centered to think about who you love.
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Raised on equal parts Catholic guilt and immigrant work ethic, the Dutch approach seemed too easy-going, self-centered and lazy to me.
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Leos have been called self-centered so it's no surprise that their ruling planet, the sun, is the center of the solar system!
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I think it's funny that selfies are by definition a picture of oneself taken by oneself, so they are by definition self-centered.
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Hedges made the case her "obnoxious" and "self-centered" client was "living in a fantastical world" and never actually intended to behead anyone.
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Jill Soloway's Transparent gave us a family drama about a transgender woman and her aimless, self-centered adult children in moneyed Los Angeles.
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Well, not unless you view this kind of self-centered content manipulation as a threat to children's imaginations and developing sense of empathy.
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Sundaram's work is never self-centered; indeed, he is an artist who seems to be constantly and consistently looking out at the world.
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They offer the pleasure of personal essays that are more inquisitive and obsessive than self-centered, and they are pitched squarely at readers.
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These questions trouble Agnes Fuller, a 19-year-old college freshman with a superficially appealing but self-centered boyfriend — and an accidental pregnancy.
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I reread the book recently to my kids, and I was dumbfounded by how self-centered, petulant and cruel that little rodent is.
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It can seem self-centered or willfully distorting, but often it's just a way of being transparent about distortions that are happening anyway.
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Season 24 shifts the show's focus somewhat, examining what happens to the people close to someone as self-centered and temperamental as Tony.
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Characterizations of millennials as self-centered and tech-obsessed, like with Time&aposs 2013 "Me Me Me Generation" cover, sparked ridicule and parodies.
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At the same time, the book also features minor characters who fail to protect great art: careless tourists, exploitative journalists, self-centered academics.
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Once again, the show's premise revolves around the idea that everyone wants to fuck Noah, even though he's a highly unlikable, self-centered jerk.
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I speak with business owners from other countries all the time, including Europe and the UK. They always describe Americans as being self-centered.
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So how do we resist the urge to give in to the self-centered ways that technology trains us to think about the world?
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In that film, Garner's character is stuck in a time-warp until she figures out how to be less shallow, mean, and self-centered.
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Worse still was the entirely self-centered apology that came Monday ("This is a first for me, I've never faced criticism like this before").
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Tuesday in Grand Rapids, Michigan—but it will still go down as the most self-centered closing argument in the history of presidential elections.
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The one-child policy meant that people born in the eighties are a bit more self-centered, and subsequent generations are even more so.
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Eighty-seven percent of Democrats or Democratic-leaning respondents described Trump as "self-centered," as did 73 percent of Republican or GOP-leaning respondents.
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Starring Chris Geere, Aya Cash, Kether Donohue, and Desmin Borges, this FX series brings you some of the most self-centered characters on television.
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Rhiannon (Angourie Rice), a shy high school student, is delightfully surprised when her self-centered boyfriend, Justin (Justice Smith), suddenly showers her with compassion.
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The cult of the self-centered, misogynist, white male nerd persists in many milieus, but I found no evidence of it at Con of Thrones.
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You're going from someone who is completely self-centered to someone for whom there's something more important than yourself and your own dumb everyday wants.
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"I have a very long and somewhat self-centered speech, but I'd like to set it aside," said Sheldon during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
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In the new comedy, Schumer plays the self-centered Emily who drags her mom (Hawn in the new film) to El Salvador for a vacation.
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For Kellogg, her original impetus was actually pretty self-centered: She had a breast cancer scare and wanted to get plastic out of her life.
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"The billionaire Republican candidate is a boastful, self-centered egomaniac who lacks a record of public service or familiarity with the issues," the editorial said.
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Truly the most self-centered of the zodiac, it is hard for them to see anything but themselves, which is kind how they like it.
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Narcissism is often regarded as a negative trait, and narcissists are seen as self-centered and not dissuaded from self-aggrandizing, even after personal failure.
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A "healthy narcissist" might sound like an oxymoron, but some narcissists claim to be self-centered for the sake of the greater good, Behary says.
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They can be self-centered, boorish, and uncouth, yet viewers tune in every week to watch them indulge their rude, crude, and sometimes lewd ways.
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The biggest is Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), a self-centered heel who awakens after a fatal accident in what looks like a college admissions office.
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A year later, she published a bruising memoir, "Leaving a Doll's House," in which she portrayed him as depressed, remote, self-centered and verbally abusive.
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The self-centered imp torches Jo's precious manuscript, which the would-be novelist has slaved over and intended to present to her war-veteran father.
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But usually when they're self-centered to the point of wanton destruction of innocent people's property, the show recognizes that they're in a bad place.
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Ian MaitlandMinneapolis To the Editor: I frequently see the complaint that participation in platforms like Facebook creates narcissistic behavior and encourages a self-centered society.
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"She just became a very self-centered person and we were all out for our friend's birthday and she was just acting crazy," Pence explained.
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Flannery, now 38, is married to a successful artist named Charles, a boorish alpha male who's self-centered and prodigious in both physicality and temper.
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So, yes, high time for a proposal like Scott Wiener's, to stop the self-centered NIMBY neighborhoods — like ours — from blocking development for everybody else.
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Things come to a head at dinner when the women attempt to talk to de Lesseps about how she's coming off as "insensitive" and self-centered.
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The same can be said for the scripts, which lean too heavily on buzzy phrases like "fake news" or caricatures of self-centered, entitled young people.
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YouTube fame makes me wary, I think, because I remember a world without social media fandom, a world where we were a bit less self-centered.
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"Ask me a question" is just a placeholder for other questions or statements that are hopefully more creative and less self-centered, not must-use text.
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"A do-it-yourself party does not work," he told reporters, taking aim at Renzi's management style, which critics say is overbearing, arrogant and self-centered.
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In an article for Scientific American, Dutton argues that psychopathy can be defined by three categories of characteristics, including fearless dominance, self-centered impulsivity, and coldheartedness.
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Don't let anyone accuse you of being too self-centered today—the Moon is in your sign, so they will just have to deal with it.
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Don't feel guilty about being self-centered during Gemini season—as long as the Sun is in your sign, it's important that you put yourself first!
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I really don't believe you can exist OK in isolation, because humans are not meant to be isolated, and they're not meant to be self-centered.
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Particularly in that phase of your life, in your 20s, you live quite a self-centered life because you don't have a whole host of responsibilities.
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Things came to a head at dinner when the women attempted to talk to de Lesseps about how she's coming off as "insensitive" and self-centered.
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Even worse are the selfish employees who have zero self-awareness or inkling that they're coming across and acting like a self-centered you-know-what.
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You can get a bad wrap for being arrogant and self-centered, but the positive traits of Leo are loyalty, humor, and a love for justice.
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While adolescents tend to be blithely self-centered in all manner of human interaction, when it came to Juliet, my three were solicitous, tender and concerned.
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If those are the reasons to abort fetuses with Down syndrome, they seem disappointing — they are either self-centered or empty in their narrow-minded conventionality.
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"Generally speaking, are gay politicians too self-absorbed and self-centered to adequately represent ALL of their constituents in a fair and equitable manner?" he asked.
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But here's another take: As a terribly self-centered child myself, it took me ages to realize that not everything my parents did was about me.
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The exception to the rule is Donald Trump, whose petulant, self-centered response to McCain's death says a lot about the president and the movement he leads.
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What happens when two self-centered, emotionally-damaged commitment-phobes have a one-night stand and then decide to actually give this whole relationship thing a go?
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Why, after evolving so much in season 6, did she have to revert to the self-centered stereotypical "millennial" that I resented and despised this whole time?
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You can say they are more self-centered, or you could say they are more self-aware — but they know better what they want compared to us.
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Now Kyle is a top-50 player he's got to become more self-centered in his outlook and really identify what he personally needs to work on.
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The best way for Tony to truly find redemption and complete his character arc from irresponsible, self-centered playboy to altruistic superhero may be to sacrifice himself.
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And even as he endeavored to repair his reputation and excuse his behavior, his communications on the matter were often self-centered, unapologetic, and at times, patronizing.
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The reason this is necessary, Buddhist philosophers recognized, is that all of us — even those who are Buddhists — are deeply habituated to self-centered ways of being.
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Well, for starters, I don't think Search Party is at all arguing that Millennials Ruined Everything, or even that they're more self-centered than any other generation.
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The messenger planet squares against the Moon, causing an imbalance in our perceptions — it's easier for us to become narrow-minded and self-centered during this transit.
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"Fleabag," about a self-centered, often nasty but well-meaning young woman negotiating sex, love and family bonds, is the darker and more inventive of the two.
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"It's a story about someone realizing how self-centered they are," which felt as urgent in 2020 "as it was in any age of history," she added.
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She won't accept that he is dating me (I ruin her perfect picture of what a family is), and his boys are very selfish and self-centered.
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A privileged asshole who grew up with multiple parents, all of whom poured love and attention on him, he is self-centered, obnoxious, and kind of toxic.
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Grimes has a way with children as well as animals, and here she finds a role for a "stubborn, self-centered, arrogant and demanding" youngster named Gerrard Gerrard.
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It's impossible not to hear how childishly self-centered I'm starting to sound, though: Of course, the voice missing from this entire story is that of my parents.
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If everyone compares their own, self-centered mission du jour to a present-day fight against Nazism, it eventually dilutes everyone's message and minimizes those events in history.
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Mary Jane Paul is a strong, supportive woman when she needs to be, but most of the time her defining characteristic is how self-centered she can be.
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But soon he was calling practically every day, and I started ignoring his calls, finding it easier to ghost as a self-centered teen than confront him directly.
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Rappers rarely get a good rap on TV. Almost always, stereotypes about them being flashy, uninformed, materialistic, self-centered, and shallow fuel the way they're depicted on screen.
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Speaking forcefully, he acknowledged that there had been resistance from some self-centered members of the bureaucracy, some of it open, some of it hidden and some hypocritical.
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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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I know that some people may feel that's a self-centered thing to say, but when it comes to your body, your opinion is the one that counts.
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The women who didn't take part in it were made to feel very guilty and selfish and self-centered and uptight, frigid and rigid and rejecting of men.
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If you're the uncle, you stay on the East Coast and live this life of self-centered Peter Pan syndrome, or you move back and raise your baby.
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I think she is a self-centered, deluded young woman, and she is about to get a reality check, and I am going to deliver it to her.
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President Trump is a self-centered bully and liar who has no regard for propriety, morality, truth, scientific facts, history or the conventions that make our democracy work.
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" Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid said that "we simply cannot afford to be self-centered ... The only path that gives us a better hope for a future is cooperation.
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And because the stakes — the potential of a second Trump term — are so large, I think it's irresponsible and self-centered of him to run as an independent.
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True, she sounds pretty self-centered and childish in your telling, but I bet she could say some negative things about you, too — and maybe you'd both be right.
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That self-centered view is in sharp contrast with Republicans (and Democrats) in Congress who have managed to rise above partisanship to face up to what has just happened.
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It's falling for a hopelessly self-centered boy, treating his desires as more important than her own, and blaming herself when things go predictably wrong because of his thoughtlessness.
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From the seemingly self-centered TV producer John to the endearing cancer patient Julie, there are so many wonderfully diverse characters in this book that'll catch your attention immediately.
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I've been called an asshole, a liar, self-centered, lazy, rude, and difficult (my dating profile: complete), and none of it bothered me the way being called fat has.
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We all know that millennials have been dubbed the most entitled generation in history; we get called selfish and self-centered — particularly when it comes to issues around identity.
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Often referred to as the star of the Zodiac (it is ruled by the sun), this sign is easily reduced to a few general terms: self-centered, dramatic, aggressive.
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But some of the aspects of [Christine's] personality we discussed are very modern and millennial, [just as far as her] being self-centered and caring mostly about her success.
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And in that case, again, Trump being Trump, someone who is erratic and self-centered, your best use of him would be in some ways as a hand grenade.
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But, there were a couple of areas of general agreement among Democrats and Republicans, one of which was that overwhelming majorities of both groups viewed Trump as self-centered.
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A real man is the type of person that will protect those more vulnerable than he is in times of harm, and not be self centered or self indulgent.
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During Hurricane Katrina, people who refused evacuation orders were cast in a negative light: as too lazy, too uniformed, or too self-centered to make the decision to leave.
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During Hurricane Katrina, people who refused evacuation orders were cast in a negative light: as too lazy, too uninformed, or too self-centered to make the decision to leave.
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" Buruma said he was most daunted by the shift from "thinking of the world as a writer — which is a rather self-centered way of looking at the world.
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The impression one gets is of a massively self-centered individual who can't bring himself to focus on other people's needs, even when that's the core of his job.
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While that's happening, Noah sends her a bunch of needy and self-centered texts that would make me, also, say if this is being your girlfriend then no thanks!
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Isabelle Huppert is their self-centered daughter — like her parents, a musician — whose questions about what she can do to help as her mother becomes increasingly incapacitated ring hollow.
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In her quest to win over Josh's heart, Rebecca keeps doing such outrageous, self-centered, or otherwise desperate things that it tests how much you can root for her.
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Later Nolan's self-centered and aloof Clytemnestra discretely hiked up her micro-skirt and inserted a two-foot-long plastic snake into herself, then did a slow, campy dance.
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I've radically changed my perspective from one of self-centered greed to one of acceptance for the imperfections in my life and gratitude for everything I'm blessed to have. Mrs.
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For very self-centered reasons: he wants to burn the Republican majorities in the House and Senate down and he needs someone to blame in the likelihood that he loses.
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Others touch upon more serious issues – the self-centered culture of Brooklyn's millennial, hipster youth; the very real feeling of being a driftlessly ambivalent twenty-something; strained mother/daughter relationships.
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Today, too many Americans take a self-centered approach, claiming their own individual rights, but not acknowledging that the First Amendment protects the free speech of the other guy, too.
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"Around the world today, we see self-centered nationalism in ascendance, tensions heightened by international exclusivity and rivalry, with nuclear disarmament at a standstill," Matsui said in his peace declaration.
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To the public, the Oscars are the only reason the Academy exists, and fixating on the awards' ratings smacks of the self-centered bent the industry is often accused of.
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The approach is simultaneously self-centered and self-aware, and Garbus says it's the only viable route she sees to accurately representing her ingrained biases — and not misrepresenting anyone else.
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Brittany, an illegal immigrant from Barbados, works as an au pair to a rich, self-centered Manhattan businessman, Jay (Matt Servitto), and his even more narcissistic wife, Brooke (Ilana Becker).
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She sent him videos, articles and texts about "narcissist abuse," a nonmedical term that has gained popularity online to describe the pain experienced by partners of pathologically self-centered people.
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Mizuno is a morally suspect, slothful and self-centered man, yet he's sufficiently talented that his social misdemeanors — rent arrears, missed deadlines, personal debts, lies, cruelty to others — are tolerated.
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But over time, Sally also reveals herself to be self-centered and impatient in ways both understandable and startling, and Goldberg finds a way to straddle the line every time.
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They may read this as a signal that we're self-centered for now -- foreign policy and national security is more of an afterthought than a priority during the election cycle.
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Some commenters accused Rocha of being too lazy and self-centered as a parent to feed her child breast milk, the preferred food for babies according to the World Health Organization.
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Hey, I love myself, but after a lifetime of ME, I started to get really sick of thinking of myself, and I started to feel beyond the scope of self-centered.
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But maybe older generations should consider how having children is also self-centered in its own right, seeing as it is motivated in some ways by a fear of being forgotten.
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"It's hard for Trump to understand why people would prefer to protect themselves because he's so self-centered he doesn't take into account other people," said a former White House official.
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After Parker's initial comments following the news of her death, he was accused of being self-centered, focused on making her death about him and the consequences for his rising career.
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The California folk-rock scene was never the coolest or edgiest, and was vulnerable to faint praise ("Gently folksy, slightly self-centered but often affecting," is how Mr. Rockwell put it).
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Snowboarding legend Shaun White is being sued by the drummer of his rock band Bad Things -- who says White was a controlling, self-centered diva ... who sexually harassed her for years.
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"Certain countries are blatantly proclaiming self-centered nationalism and modernizing their nuclear arsenals, rekindling tensions that had eased with the end of the Cold War," Matsui said, without identifying the countries.
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Of course, it would be self-centered grandiosity to say that my haters are always right, as this would mean that I'm the worst person ever: the queen of the shits.
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Next up, Sophia hits the pool in her granny panties and bralette and then dines with Shane where he finally snaps about how self-centered and self-absorbed his girlfriend is.
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As an Ayn Rand devotee, he's into self-improvement, self-reliance, pretty much every self-centered philosophy you could imagine (except the ones about women having control over their reproductive health).
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The fact that so many rehabs have historically used degrading and punitive tactics that assume participants are self-centered manipulative liars also plays into the idea that addiction is really sin.
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But pretty quickly, he reveals himself to be as self-serving and self-centered as Selina, turning Dan — who once was a pretty strong strategy guy — into his coffee-fetching lackey.
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Uncharted models the psychology of the plundering villain, too self-centered to recognize that his impact on the hidden cultures and the people around him are almost certainly a net negative.
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The Sun, the planet of ego, meets logical Mercury, both in the baby sign of the zodiac, Aries, at 4:11 PM: This combination could inspire some self-centered, rigid thinking.
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After hearing Gander speak at the press conference, I wasn't surprised that his project feels spiritless as well as self-centered — distant from both the Remai Modern's collection and its community.
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In retrospect, more passengers could have been saved on the ill-fated plane had it not been for a few self-centered folks who created a bottleneck and a virtual deathtrap.
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Still, there's only so much cash in Bridgette's occasional acting spots and her part-time job tutoring the feckless children of Ally (Connie Britton), a warm but self-centered rich woman.
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It's also worth putting thought into how you frame the incident: A long-winded, venting session can be cathartic, but it also has the potential to sound self-centered or melodramatic.
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The message that comes across instead is one of a self-centered and unsophisticated executive, inept when it comes to advancing any kind of real strategy to support key democratic freedoms.
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Where Mr. Trump came off self-centered and easily distracted, she was self-effacing and sharply focused, traits she displayed from her earliest days growing up on the Upper East Side.
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The youngest of the four sisters, she&aposs portrayed as spoiled, self-centered, and materialistic in the novel and subsequent adaptations, and is frequently considered the "worst" of the March women.
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West's tour group may have made some kind of effort to support Ugandans, but the entire trip still feels marred by the weight of the seemingly self-centered nature of the visit.
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The story is basically about a self-centered man who never usually falls for or approaches anyone but if he chooses you, you should be grateful and "pick up" if he calls.
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" New York Congressman Peter King told NBC News that Cruz was "a fraud, he's a liar, he's self-centered and disqualified himself from ever being considered for president of the United States.
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Paul Krugman Even those who have long since accepted the premise that Donald Trump is corrupt, self-centered and dishonest seem a bit shocked by his tirades over the Presidents' Day weekend.
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But if we think mindfulness is just something I do so that I can feel better in the midst of fear, then it's going to have a much more self-centered feel.
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Its soapy satire is aiming to skewer the city's vegans, desperate actors, and therapy devotees — just as it took aim at New York's literary pretensions and self-centered heiresses in Season 1.
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"Carol never complained about anything or asked for anything, and I took advantage of that by being selfish and self-centered," he said, pausing for a painful moment to clear his throat.
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He's prissy and self-centered, and the way he casually discards his live-in lover when he sees Josephina as available could use some more narrative examination, and possibly a consequence or two.
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They seem to have a total lack of self-reflection, which, for most of the show, keeps them self-centered and naively self-destructive; they are children living in a world of adults.
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John Kasich in the Republican race — said he still believes Trump has the best chance to get the nation back on track, calling presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton power-hungry and self-centered.
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The Calgary-born Texas senator, elected with the support of the Tea Party movement, is loathed by most of his Senate colleagues for his personality and his penchant for self-centered political stunts.
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Though teens are often characterized as being persistently self-centered, or for girls in particular, mean, anyone who spends a lot of time with adolescents can tell you that those stereotypes aren't fair.
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The Alawites had moved to the cities while the Baath Party—that used to favor peasants in the countryside and redistribution of land—had become a wholly self-centered establishment in the cities.
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Again: For all of the game's gesturing at the world being bigger than her and for the dangers of being a self-centered outsider, Shadow really is all about Lara Croft, Tomb Raider.
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Gifted with the ability to make us empathize with an alcoholic, self-centered, depressive talking horse, he has extended his talents to musing on another character from an alternate animated universe: Marge Simpson.
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Or think about Ted Cruz, whose mean-spiritedness and self-centered nature evidently stand out even in today's conservative movement, making him a hated figure even among those who should like his message.
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Fair trade, better education, opportunity, healthcare, lower taxes, strong military and national defense, homeland security, blah, blah, blah, yeah, right, whatever ...standard political pablum fed to you by political and self centered opportunists.
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Mayor Kazumi Matsui raised concerns in his peace address Tuesday about the rise of self-centered politics in the world and urged leaders to steadily work toward achieving a world without atomic weapons.
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A Parisian teenager (Victor Ezenfis) raised by a single mother (Natacha Régnier) learns that his father is a self-centered, famous publisher in this absurd take on the Nativity directed by Eugène Green.
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Lizzie is still a romantic heroine, but we can also detect the ways she might be self-centered and taking for granted her sister Jane's good nature, even while admonishing her for it.
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But it's worth seeing, for the first time or the 10th, to witness the main character -- self-centered weatherman Phil Connors (a role only Bill Murray could master) -- breaking that cycle through personal redemption.
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Lena Dunham's narcissistic Hannah in Girls or Krysten Ritter's self-centered party girl in the underrated sitcom Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23 are able to play lead roles despite being resolutely unlikeable.
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It also feels a bit like it's trying to connect the selfishness of the "world's largest asshole" to the common complaint that millennials are self-centered, terrible people, as Will Burns does for Forbes.
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By facilitating conversations and letting locals speak, the show treated the people and society that it was visiting with reverence and respect, and it broke from the stereotype of the self-centered American traveler.
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In an email with the subject line "Verbal Rape," his uncle accused him of writing "this despicable, immoral, and self-centered shambles of a book" to "get back at the family" and get rich.
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Rolling our eyes at our loud and self-centered predecessors was pretty much the only thing this culturally disparate, hipster-filled generation had in common in the 20003s, other than our love of flannel.
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Much of the Republican establishment has been reluctant about embracing Mr. Cruz, disdaining him as a self-centered politician who once called the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, a liar on the Senate floor.
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Attempts to tie the issue to some sort of true New Yorker identity feel like a bait-and-switch, not to mention an embarrassing ass-showing about the self-centered NYC media echo chamber.
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Add to this, of course, the fact that we are in the middle of a pandemic and global health crisis, and it makes his refusal to step aside even more painful and self-centered.
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The toxic definition of manhood most of us have been given, regardless of race or culture or creed, teaches that to be human is to be violent, aggressive, self-centered, domineering and power-mad.
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What these stories have in common is that millions of Americans are going to suffer, and hundreds if not thousands die, because Trump and his officials are too self-centered to do their jobs.
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When Girls was on television, from 240 to 21991, almost everyone found Hannah Horvath (and the rest of the show's characters) annoying, self-centered, and simply gross, from the highbrow critics to the masses.
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They, frankly, come across as self-centered lunatics who are intent on making a dent in the universe, without an ounce of self-awareness for the repercussions of how those actions could harm others.
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Sure, you want to be compensated or awarded for what you've earned, if you are only coming across as self-centered or motivated, it's easy for employers (whether current or prospective) to feel slighted.
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Many political observers have noted Trump's hyperconsciousness of Barack Obama, who was also mentioned in those remarks to the boy scouts, which were so inappropriately political and self-centered that parents actually lodged complaints.
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The film is essentially a long masterclass, and while it had the potential to be a monotonous, self-centered diatribe, it's instead a magical peek into Varda's genius, peppered with her inimitable wit and humor.
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President-elect Donald Trump scores a 171 on Dutton's scale in part because of high scores in the perceived traits of fearless dominance and self-centered impulsivity (though Dutton has not examined Trump in person).
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The U.S. city of Philadelphia launched a "Dude, it's Rude" campaign in 2014 and Seattle's transport provider put up signs on buses showing a self-centered purple octopus with its tentacles draped over bordering seats.
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The youngest generation is more self-centered than those before it, Grossman said, but the same could have been said of the youth of the 1950s versus the youth of the 1930s, and so on.
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" Paul Begala: Boomers, worst generation ever Sixteen years ago I wrote in Esquire, "The baby boomers are the most self-centered, self-seeking, self-interested, self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing generation in American history.
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Then, a self-centered, power-grab gamble by then-Kurdish President Masoud Barzani to force-feed our independence on the world backfired — badly, just as we were warned would happen by our clear-eyed friends.
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All too often we're thought of as apathetic, self-centered, and on a fast-track to failure, but California-natives Ari Andersen and Matthew Little are on a quest to prove that Millennials Don't Suck.
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Some Democrats said that with the delegate outlook so bleak, and with a deadly pandemic gripping an anxious nation, Mr. Sanders risks appearing self-centered and out of step if he insists on pressing ahead.
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"What happened to Fourth Avenue, essentially, it was run by a lot of very interesting, strong, self-centered individuals, including my dad, and very few of them imparted knowledge to the younger generation," he said.
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The one thing that I never expected from doing the podcast — as a sort of self-centered person — was how much of an impact it would have on other people's lives, and I honor that.
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These people are often self-centered Americans who do not recognize that people with friends and family outside the United States, iPhone or not, default to WhatsApp, an innocent company owned by (checks notes) Facebook.
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AA gives you a lot of self awareness, helps you understand your behaviors, how we manifest all our own problems, and how we affect other people and that we by nature are very self-centered.
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Cruz's position is cowardly and self-centered: he refused to have stronger words for Trump's outrages because he didn't want to offend Trump's supporters, and that pusillanimity was in the service of an extremely selfish worldview.
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Looking back on the season as a whole, I can at least appreciate that these teens giving in to self-centered instincts out of deep insecurity makes sense, because who among us didn't do the same?
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As the Neil Armstrong of First Man might put it, good art often takes us out of our everyday, self-centered cluelessness, our facile assumptions about the world and about other people, and changes our perspective.
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I'm not condemning this mode of reasoning by using the pejorative term self-centered, just observing that our intuitions about risk are informed by calculations centered on ourselves, not centered on, say, humanity or the planet.
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Add to that the whispers after Ms. Wilson-Raybould's resignation that painted her as difficult, self-centered and untrustworthy — and the characterization by the country's male finance minister that Dr. Philpott's was an act of friendship.
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If recognizing this worries us, it is thanks to the fact that we are conscious beings who feel and care, including about the costs of feeling and caring in the self-centered, parochial way we do.
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Einstein, as portrayed here by Mr. Rush and Johnny Flynn (as the young Einstein) is an errant lover, a draft dodger, an adulterer, a clueless rebel, an arrogant self-centered dreamer and a stubborn, curious soul.
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Apart from this splinter, however, the biggest mystery about Star is why Sparks has made her such a self-centered cliché; in this stark world, it's difficult to believe her sullenness could be a survival trait.
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Warren's backers, while taking a less aggressive tone, nonetheless revived questions of whether many of Sanders's supporters are sexist and whether he contributed to the party's disastrous 2016 loss with a display of self-centered petulance.
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"Recollections of My Nonexistence" is an un-self-centered book that often reverses the figure-ground relationship, portraying the emergence of a writer and her voice from a particular cultural moment and set of fortuitous influences.
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Not only got the diagnosis right, but also offered a prescription, a way to clarify your vision in a way that makes you a less self-centered person—and perhaps ironically, makes you a happier person.
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"By rejecting and condemning parenthood, artists themselves helped institutionalize the self-centered, hermetic behavior that is frequently construed as a sign of genius," Sharon Butler argues in her essay Neo-Maternalism: Contemporary Artists' Approach to Motherhood.
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Howl himself is categorized by others as being vain and self-centered — he even throws a temper tantrum when his hair is accidentally dyed orange, saying 'I see no point in living if I can't be beautiful.
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Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) in Parks and Rec has an inflated, self-centered sense of ambition; Eleanor (Kristen Bell) in The Good Place is selfish and abrasive; Dwight (Rainn Wilson) in The Office is, well, Dwight-ish.
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Meryl Shader, Sacramento Re "Teenagers and False Body Images" (Well, Aug 2): Social media and many of its self-centered trappings are powerful and sometimes destructive influences when it comes to children's overall health and body image.
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Directed by Scott Ellis ("Kiss Me, Kate"), it got largely enthusiastic reviews in Chicago last fall, though some sensed a cringe factor in a plot about a self-centered man feigning femaleness to nab a woman's role.
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A longtime news anchor whose career is threatened by stress and ageism and whose marriage to Erik — a crabby, self-centered professor — has begun to ossify, Anna seems the sole adult in a house filled with children.
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Thus presidents of both parties were given the ability to — with the stroke of a pen — disregard those most impacted by land management decisions in favor of an agenda often focused on ideological and self-centered goals.
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Yes, she&aposs still snobbish, self-centered, and materialistic at times (the novel-burning scene is still as infuriating as ever), but Florence Pugh&aposs Amy is shown to have a level of intelligence rivaling Jo&aposs.
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He's a whiny, self-centered narrative time suck with the character depth of a wooden post — who, by the way, regularly threatens to unravel the very fabric of the Game of Thrones universe with his dumb bird powers.
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On Monday, Swalwell blasted Trump on Twitter as a "self-centered man-child" after a video showed the president gesturing to guests and pretending to conduct a band as the national anthem played at his Super Bowl party.
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Ambitious, self-centered and seemingly amoral, Trump made himself into one of the most famous people in the world, a billionaire many times over, and now, one of two major party candidates for president of the United States.
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In Phantom Thread, which if he stays true to his word will be his swan song, Day-Lewis plays a self-centered fashion designer whose world is turned upside down when his muse falls in love with him.
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With so many white people feeling like their role in today's political climate is only to prove that they aren't racist against people of color, it's great to see examples of allyship and advocacy that aren't self-centered.
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He was aware that hate crimes are on the rise and — in an act of self-centered desperation and stupidity — he tried to inject himself into the center of a narrative that is rightfully focused on actual victims.
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Lou already has a boyfriend, a self-centered fitness nut named Patrick (Matthew Lewis), but as soon as you see him, you will know better than to expect a werewolf-versus-vampire rivalry for a young woman's affections.
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I find that mindset to be parochial and self-centered; with this gift, a person could be a civil servant with a large base of knowledge and experience who helps solve the world's problems and educate the public.
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Goodlatte, Gowdy and Nunes wrote that the memos, which were made public Thursday, portray Comey as self-centered and vindicate the president from the suspicion he sought to stop the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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But in Dale Schierholt's thoughtful documentary Nevelson: Awareness in the Fourth Dimension (21940), the artist savors her favorite phrase, "self-centered," explaining that it means being led by an inner compass rather than living scattershot by unreliable cultural guideposts.
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Perhaps what were considered markers of my generation's privilege — intensive parenting, rigorous education and consumerist culture — are in fact our bane, making us self-centered and emotionally isolated, struggling to find independence and fulfillment in a fast-changing society.
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In general, using a person like a machine in sexual interaction does cause social as well as individual harm since it allows classes of people—usually women —to be dehumanised and reinforces self-centered and selfish views of sexual gratification.
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" After the Vixen's preemptive exit, Asia O'Hara, who emerged as the season's selfless matriarch, was emotional: "It's ridiculous that our thought process about people is so self-centered that if it's hard to help somebody, we'll just let them struggle.
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Theron as Mavis in Young Adult Cody's main characters wouldn't like each other much — the self-centered mean girl who never really grew up and the Brooklyn hipster gone suburbanite — but that doesn't make them any less of a kind onscreen.
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When the President arrives in Las Vegas this week on yet another mission that calls for presidential grace, in response to trauma, he will have one more opportunity to show he is more than self-centered, ego-driven and insecure.
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One of my favorite moments of this season was when the thrift store shopgirl in "The Panic In Central Park" episode, played by the wonderful Lane Moore, openly judges Marnie's life choices, and Marnie is too self-centered to even notice.
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An internet of things that knows our feelings and bends to our wills would lead, not just to self-driving cars and even self-aware robots but, one of Herzog's talking heads imagines, to an even more self-centered world.
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It is painted an extra lurid shade of pink and covered in dozens of photographs of little girls with Monika Maddux's face pasted into all of them, a testament to the fact that grief and pain make people remarkably self-centered.
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If you like Didion, you can glory in the beauty of her sentence fragments and analyze the beginnings of her process; if you don't like her, you can feel vindicated in knowing that her reporting notes really are quite self-centered.
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Season seven's Rory arc feels less like a continuous piece of the story Sherman-Palladino was telling and more like an attempt to course-correct in the face of fan criticism that Rory was getting increasingly entitled and self-centered.
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His self-centered coping mechanisms and privilege have previously shielded him from all three potential consequences, but his time in rehab and attempt to start fresh as an acting teacher at Hollyhock's school have finally given Bojack something to lose.
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"That's when people start abusing their power and behaving like problematic providers," she says, pointing out that Instagram's center of gravity is naturally narcissistic, and medical providers who don't actively push against it can easily fall into self-centered behavior.
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He gave a "wild" and "rambling" answer that included how he was raised in New York City in government housing and, the sources said, brought up his disadvantages and lack of privilege in a way that struck them as self-centered and defensive.
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Picasso's rendering of his sexual domination over women is done in terms of odalisque-like poses where the female form competes with limp fruit, something so cliché that it suggests to me that he may have been a self-centered "bad" lover.
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Meyer, the self-centered and foul-mouthed former president and vice president at the center of the Emmy-winning HBO comedy, will be trying to work her way back into the White House when the show returns on March 31 for seven episodes.
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When he does face contempt — from Louisa's self-centered fitness nut of a boyfriend, a threadbare character in the hands of Harry Potter heartthrob Matthew Lewis — it doesn't approximate the world's ill treatment of disabled characters, which really isn't on display at all.
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" The lawsuit also brings to light Neil's "long history of self-centered, irresponsible, drunken, and violent behavior," citing a "penchant for attacking those he apparently perceives as weaker and subservient to him, including women and purported fans of the aging 'rock star.
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So, the big question that remains is whether the United States really wants to embark on a battle with so many of its longstanding friends and strategic allies at the very moment it is embarking on similarly self-centered and challenging encounters elsewhere.
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"It's a common misperception that these men go for weak women; it's quite the opposite — these pathologically self-centered guys want a strong woman who has a lot to give," writesHuff Post contributorand founder and CEO of Date Like a Grownup, Bobbi Palmer.
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"Long Gone" is far more sinister: Armisen plays a self-centered and dissociative musician, who at one point decides to abandon his wife (Natasha Lyonne) and child to live in a tiny European country and gets mixed up with a fascist dictatorship.
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Lisa's well-intentioned yet self-centered quest for justice leads to a narrow-minded journey where she applies unwarranted significance to the event, like getting hung up on the coincidence that the dead woman's daughter—who is also dead—was named Lisa, too.
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When you're at the precarious ages of 18 to early-ish 20s, that is often very hard because, if we think teenagers are self-centered little assholes most of the time, it's far worse when you're playing at being a full-blown adult.
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So much of this month has been focused on your friendships, but when the Sun enters Aries—a sign that can be pretty self-centered at times—you'll be super focused on yourself and getting the alone time and rest that you need.
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The night before, I'd woken to attach him to the nebulizer, check his oxygen, place the stethoscope against his little chest, and to hold him close, riddled with fear and guilt over leaving him the next day for something so utterly self-centered.
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Yet the core of her allegations against Mr. Ellison regard what she calls "narcissist abuse," a term that is not officially recognized in psychiatry but that is gaining popularity online as a way to describe suffering experienced by partners of self-centered people.
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Enlightened but self-centered, introspective but reckless, they are known among the cohorts that followed them — and even to some boomers themselves — as the generation that failed to live up to its lofty ideals, but still held fast to its sense of superiority.
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Triple Oscar winner Day-Lewis plays fastidious 1950s London fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock whose self-centered life is disrupted when his latest muse, Alma (played by newcomer Vicky Krieps), falls in love with him and matters take an unexpected and sinister twist.
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Because of these myriad risks, Trump should be worried about each new candidate, Republican, Democrat or independent, who enters the race -- not for self-centered reasons, but because our security and our democracy depend on his taking immediate steps to keep them safe.
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Which is self-centered and fucked up and goes against everything I know to be true about the universe, but when I hear Miranda's version of Hamilton say, "I imagine death so much it feels like a memory," it's like meeting an old friend.
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But what's really intrigued me over this weekend are all the small ways in which we augment and amplify web services just through our self-centered actions, the ones we take oblivious of the effect they have on companies and businesses halfway round the globe.
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It's that combination of visionary thinking and attention to detail that makes Lemonade feel like the endpoint of a slow shift toward cohesive, self-centered pop albums — one that began in earnest with the release of her self-titled LP at the end of 2013.
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This is true of all things from sex (my tits are saggier than they were the last time we fucked) to death (I don't believe in hell but if there is one I'm going) to this essay (yes, commenters, it's self-centered and not newsworthy).
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What's In Her Future: In the interest of keeping her sobriety (and beginning to make healthier friendship choices), Jessa will find a new group of friends — a less toxic, self-centered gang that supports each other rather than passive-aggressively competing against each other.
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As a bunch of self-centered entertainment industry rich people, it would be easier to hate the characters than love him, but we do, thanks in part to the amazing vocal talents of Will Arnett, Alison Brie, Paul F. Thompkins, Amy Sedaris, and Aaron Paul.
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The standard critique of Joan Didion — insofar as there is a standard critique of the legend, one of America's greatest prose stylists and a pioneer of new journalism, she of the inscrutable cigarette-dangling photograph — is that she is a cold and self-centered writer.
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For Tony, we know he understands the act will kill him, and we feel how profound a culmination it is for his character, the grudge he's carried against Thanos for years, and how he's shifted from a self-centered major asshole to a selfless minor asshole.
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We also see how irritating and self-centered Jimmy and Gretchen are now that they're back to normal, as they make demands of Edgar without acknowledging anything he's going through — and, in a particularly callous moment, have sex in the backseat of his car while he's driving.
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If Trump ever releases his tax records and it turns out that he's only worth, say, $755,000, he'll deserve a big apology from those of us who thought he was a self-centered rich guy with zero interest in sharing his wealth with the less fortunate.
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Our frank and open conversations gave me confidence that there are still logical, honest individuals at the Bureau who respect civil rights and the Constitution, despite the recent devastating impact on our democracy by self-centered politicians at the top of the Clinton-Obama-Comey regime.
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The official push of traditional masculinity — including reinvented school curriculums and the sponsorship of boys-only clubs — is motivated in part by worries that the decades-long one-child policy produced a generation of timid and self-centered male youth ill equipped to fulfill their social responsibilities.
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Gilliam's story takes place in contemporary times: Toby, played by Adam Driver, is a self-centered advertising director who, years after casting a Spanish shoemaker as Quixote in a student film, returns to Spain to find that the man, played by Pryce, thinks he's actually Quixote.
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He has transformed the most coveted place to work into a wretched snake-pit of lies and indecency that chews people up and spits them out, all for the entertainment, amusement and coddling of the most fragile and self-centered ego on earth — that of Donald Trump.
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It&aposs origins had to do with age, obviously, and echoed a feeling of resentment toward an older generation that seemed to wreak havoc on young peoples&apos future prospects, only to turn around and blame them for being self-centered and not able to afford anything.
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That's probably just me being self-centered, but it's really fun to sit and build things with magnetic tiles, or make snowmen out of Play-Doh, and way less fun to watch blankly while my kid does something boring and repetitive with a less interactive toy.
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He may be one of the greatest villains of the modern age—a self-centered sociopath indirectly responsible for multiple deaths, including that of his infant son Tom Cruise, Jr. In Mister America we witness him realize, albeit fleetingly, that there may be no redemption for someone like him.
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The family has a long, complicated history with talking about therapy and each other's mental health so it's no surprise that the root of their feud is something that makes them uncomfortable, like a woman telling Kourtney that her family is mean-spirit, self-centered, and potentially toxic.
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In the new musical comedy "The Prom," a farcical quartet of self-centered theater stars who descend on a small town in Indiana are played by a farce-loving quartet of real theater stars who have been encouraged to portray their roles as heightened versions of their own personalities.
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Here the city contains its multitudes: It's a place rich with living history and lousy with self-centered 26-year-olds; a gentrified husk of its former self and yet still the promised land for countless newcomers from near and far; lonely and cacophonous, utterly predictable and endlessly surprising.
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ROME — As Christians around the world celebrated Christmas, Pope Francis called on Wednesday for a softening of "stony and self-centered hearts," once again directing the world's attention to the plight of migrants and people living in areas plagued by conflict, social and political upheaval, injustice, or natural disasters.
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So self-centered," wrote one fan, while another follower added, "and yet ur the only one that didn't write a tribute to your niece… smh it doesn't look good" Another user firmly wrote, "Get..your a— up and go to the funeral for 2 hours then get back in your bed.
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"He continued: "It started off with someone who's absolutely self-centered, has more money than they could ever spend, is spiritually dead, and has no idea that they're about to go through a crucible that is going to put them in a position to be of service to their community.
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The last two weeks have been another a loud wake-up call for Democrats who have railed against President Donald Trump but who thought that this reality star commander-in-chief was so incompetent, corrupt and self-centered that it was only a matter of time before he went away.
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This band of sisters to Jordan's sororal brother is made up of the brashly self-centered Kiki (entertainingly played by Sas Goldberg, in the style of Megan Mullally's acerbic socialite in "Will & Grace"); the moody Vanessa (Rebecca Naomi Jones); and Jordan's alter ego and former college roommate, Laura (Lindsay Mendez).
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They plan to use Wednesday's hearing to paint Mr. Cohen as self-centered and untrustworthy — a man who ran afoul of the law, including by lying to Congress once before, and then once he was caught, sought to spin lies about his former boss to reduce his time in prison.
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So unless mindfulness is employed in the service of making the world a better place — then practicing can and does end up serving to maintain the very self-centered, greedy, individualistic institutions and relationships that contribute to the lack of connected presence, kindness, and compassion that contribute to our unhappiness.
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Given the lack of any previous evidence of his interest in the communities I represented nor any interaction between us, I do not think it is self-centered for me to conclude that his donation was likely motivated by his anger at me for my co-sponsorship of the financial-reform bill.
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" In one of his annual reports to the Ford Foundation, the program director concluded that the school took some losing gambles in the first class, writing, "The presence in this group of six or eight abrasive, self-centered, cynical people proved to be enormously destructive; their restlessness and discontent spread like an infection.
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I think that a lot of millennials don't realize that other people in the past, and even people their age now, have nowhere near the privilege they have because those millennials are self-centered and only concerned with trivial things that directly affect them, which is detrimental and gives them that bed reputation.
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Where Montesquieu believed that we're capable of the motivation to act unselfishly, Hobbes held that we're irredeemably self-centered and would always pursue our own interest at the expense of others'—and if this is what you believe, you could say a low expectation of ethical behavior in political life reasonably follows.
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Not only did we see a preview of hometowns that shows a lot of drama going down for the Virginia Beach native, but one of her former friends — and, coincidentally, Peter Weber's ex — Melissa Pence has stepped forward to give her own take on the "self-centered" 25-year-old to Us Weekly.
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In its most radical change of pace yet, The Good Place left behind both the Good and Bad Places in season 3, instead sticking its four self-centered humans back on Earth in their old lives, with the reformed demon Michael and the super-computer Janet trying to steer them toward a better afterlife.
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But the saddest guilt takes over me from time to time: guilt that I haven't been this loving to previous partners, guilt that I've been emotionally checked out as I was processing (not very well) extreme grief, and of course the guilt of being so self-centered for so long in such a beautiful world.
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Of all the noxious, insulting stereotypes millennials have to endure about their generation — that they're self-centered, lazy, and entitled, not to mention the fucking avocado toast — none merits rioting in the streets like the fetid narrative that millennials are useless parasites leeching off their far more industrious, far more successful, endlessly responsible parents.
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Instead, by bringing attention to Recy Taylor, giving a nod to domestic laborers and farmworkers, "the women whose names we'll never know," Oprah took a moment where she had every right to be self-centered and used it to highlight the experiences of women who will never be able to share their own stories on such a platform.
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They've managed to portray to themselves and, to some degree to the world, certainly to the western world, the British Empire as some sort of benign exercise in altruism, which is far from being the truth … The fact is that it was neither benign nor altruistic; it was deeply rapacious, and deeply self-centered and self-benefiting.
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Later in life, I will encounter and come to understand other self-centered people capable of great feats of empathy if only within certain narrow yet powerful contexts—while writing novels, say—but for the moment I cling to the misguided hope that the ray of my father's compassionate attention will one day be directed toward me.
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Indeed, if that weren't the case, there would be no need for Buddhist practice; it is just because people everywhere (even in Tibet, Myanmar and Japan) are generally self-centered that it takes so much work — innumerable lifetimes of it, according to many Buddhists — to overcome the habituated dispositions that typically run riot over our stated beliefs.
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Jones, the flamboyant owner of America's team, has two major and self-centered grievances: the perceived rush to compensate a commissioner who can't get the players to stand up for the national anthem, and Goodell's decision to banish the Cowboys' star running back, Ezekiel Elliott, for six games based on an accusation of domestic violence by his former girlfriend.
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This is why, at the White House Correspondents' dinner, President Obama could chastise Republicans for failing to reach beyond their base ("Call me self-centered, but I can think of one minority they could start with"), or pretend to lose his cool over climate change deniers as "Luther, my anger translator" tried and failed to calm him down.
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"[T]he lives of people in the global south are worth more than just a throwaway joke about your self-centered a--es being drafted for war, none of you understand the reality of war, none of you will ever understand the full extent of it," read one tweet from a Twitter user who lives in the global south.
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" And he confessed near the end that "today, looking at The Graduate, I see Benjamin not as an admirable rebel, but as a self-centered creep whose put-downs of adults are tiresome ... To know that the movie once spoke strongly to a generation is to understand how deep the generation gap ran during that extraordinary time in the late 1960s.
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For example, if I've had a book come out recently and I'm with a friend who doesn't mention it, instead of thinking, "This person hasn't mentioned my book because they're busy and haven't had time to purchase it, much less read it, and that doesn't mean that they don't like me," I will go to, "This person doesn't care about me," which is such a terrible, self-centered way to think.
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A new poll from Pew Research Center finds that the vast majority of both Republicans and Democrats view President TrumpDonald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump takes unexpected step to stem coronavirus Democrats start hinting Sanders should drop out Coronavirus disrupts presidential campaigns MORE as "self-centered," with the poll also finding that just 15 percent of American adults approve of the way the president conducts himself in office.
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"Because at the end of the day, Americans need someone to count on to tell the truth (even if a bit too much of it and at the wrong moment), who will take responsibility as others duck it (even if that sometimes looks self-centered and preening) and who will do the right thing as he sees it whatever the cost (even if the cost to himself and the country is terrible)," he continued.
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The bloodshed of the crackdown, in which hundreds and possibly thousands of people were killed, gave him a profound focus and a lasting sense of guilt, something he addressed in an essay in 2003: That bloody dawn in 1989 ... showed me how shallow and self-centered I still was, taught me to recognize the warmth and the inner strength of love, and gave me new appreciation of what is most important in life.
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Because at the end of the day, Americans need someone to count on to tell the truth (even if a bit too much of it and at the wrong moment), who will take responsibility as others duck it (even if that sometimes looks self-centered and preening) and who will do the right thing as he sees it whatever the cost (even if the cost to himself and the country is terrible).
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" Declaring victory over the Disrupters is "the Resistance," equivalently endowed with a capital letter but otherwise overmatched by their opponents: "The Disrupters are led by a cabal of self-centered billionaires who love to exercise their power over others," Ravitch helpfully explains, "and the Resistance is led by tireless parents, students, grandparents, public school graduates, teachers, retired teachers, community leaders and religious leaders who are devoted to the principle of separation of church and state.
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In fact, for a good while — starting with the opening, which introduces pearl-colored new stray Victoria (ballet superstar Francesca Hayward) to the turf felines who prowl 1930s&apos London hoping to be anointed by Old Deuteronomy, and through numbers with Rebel Wilson (as showbiz-mad Jennyanydots), Jason Derulo (as self-centered Rum Tum Tugger) and James Corden (as gluttonous Bustopher) — it&aposs painful enough to make your heart race for everyone involved.
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Unfortunately, under the present administration, the DOJ has become a demoralized and dysfunctional place, due to what I believe is a lack of honesty and integrity of Attorney General Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsDOJ should take action against China's Twitter propaganda Lewandowski says he's 'happy' to testify before House panel The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy MORE and the contempt shown to the nonpartisan lawyers of the department by an arrogant, self-centered, and possibly corrupt president.
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Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyYang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' Pence celebrates Trump's acquittal: 'It's over, America' MORE (R-Utah) as "the ultimate selfish, preening, self-centered politician" Wednesday night and called for him to resign after his vote to convict President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchiff: Bolton 'refused' to submit affidavit on Trump's involvement in Ukraine controversy Yang congratulates Romney for 'voting his conscious and character' in convicting Trump McConnell 'disappointed' by Romney impeachment vote, but 'I'm going to need his support' MORE on one article of impeachment.
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The pattern of his pro-Putin, pro-Russia, anti-FBI, anti-intelligence community actions are so one-sided, and the lies and obfuscation surrounding every single Russian meeting and conversation are so consistent, that if this president isn't actually hiding a massive conspiracy, it means the alternative is worse: America elected a chief executive so oblivious to geopolitics, so self-centered and personally insecure, so naturally predisposed to undermine democratic institutions and coddle authoritarians, and so terrible a manager and leader, that he cluelessly surrounded himself with crooks, grifters, and agents of foreign powers, compromising the national security of the US government and undermining 75 years of critical foreign alliances, just to satiate his own ego.
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