Among the literary figures, the most impressive were Pound; Virginia Woolf, whose viperish tongue was more lethal than any poison of the Borgias (she found Eliot "peevish, plaintive, egotistical," with a "sepulchral voice"); and Bertrand Russell, infinitely kind even when not trying to bed your wife (it's possible he and Vivien enjoyed a brief fling).
There's no need to be egotistical with the students.
"Very arrogant, very egotistical and with the ability to make me feel less about myself.
Both were statements by possessors of great fortunes; both mixed egotistical idiosyncrasies with celebrations of the premodern.
Whereas Glass is, he says, "an egotistical device" with a range of uses – you can surf the net, read emails, take photographs, do unspecified things with as yet unspecified apps, Telepathy will be "more of a communication device".
"There are egotistical infrastructures with chief executives and finance directors managing a dispersed stock of 5,000 homes across a city and treating funding as if it's their own money," said one speaker.
Only passing reference is made to the destructive consequences of the bomb, and most of the discussion about the atomic scientists' reaction to the bombing of Japan is confined to descriptions of petty, egotistical spats with one another.
Republicans and Mr Paulson say he is an egotistical careerist with no real aims other than to get elected.Mr Crist is standing on a standard Democratic platform: a higher minimum wage, more education spending and women's rights (four years ago he said he was pro-life; now he says he is pro-choice).
Bloomsbury has been described as having the self-important air of an exclusive club; the group's many critics, then as now, found it easy to write them off, as Leon Edel notes, as "a parcel of snobs, eccentric, insolent, arrogant, egotistical, preoccupied with neurotic personal relations".
A couple of weeks ago, as the Harvey Weinstein story continued to spool out across the news, I surveyed the growing pile of allegations the horrific and familiar tale of an angry, wealthy, egotistical man with a casual habit of treating young women as if they were blow-up dolls.
Before he can specify that he means an egotistical sociopath with a history of jumpsuit violence, Miss Tyra Banks herself zooms in on a jet ski, tucked-to-impress in a Jamaican flag one-piece.
