Sentence examples for egocentric behavior from inspiring English sources

The riff, of course, is based on Owen Wilson's from "The Royal Tenenbaums"; the movie in question is Alex Ross Perry's "Listen Up Philip," in which Jason Schwartzman — who, of course, got his start in Wes Anderson's "Rushmore" — plays a thirtyish Brooklyn novelist who both feeds and releases his constant anxiety through a torrent of verbal aggression and cavalierly egocentric behavior.

Give2Get (G2G) [20] studies the egocentric behavior of nodes and develops the Give2Get epidemic and Give2Get delegation-forwarding algorithms, where nodes are selfish with outsiders and faithful with the nodes from the same community.

In an essay later analyzing what he had witnessed as well as Adi Da's subsequent career, he perceives a pattern of "abusive, manipulative, and self-centered" behavior, saying "does it necessarily follow that the individual who is 'liberated' is free to indulge in what appear to be egocentric, hurtful, and damaging actions in the name of spiritual freedom?

"We've become accustomed to [his] bizarre, egocentric behaviour".

Bundling up the most outrageous demands and self-indulgent behavior of this egocentric tribe into one over-the-top caricature, Hiaasen presents us with Cherry Pye, a 22-year-old pop star whose every display of narcissistic excess will send a frisson of horrified delight up your spine.

Her behavior is indeed egocentric, and it is disrespectful.

The long-term goal of meditators undergoing such training is to weaken egocentric traits so that altruistic behaviors might arise more frequently and spontaneously.

Once the animals develop a directional preference the use of distant visual landmarks is evident and thus their behavior albeit still being egocentric has become hippocampus-dependent.