They have been diversifying into businesses that have little to do with computers, while egotistically proclaiming that they alone can solve mankind's problems, from ageing to space travel.
Coleridge was enabled to explore the same range of themes less egotistically in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," composed during the autumn and winter of 1797 98.
The gloomy, depressive artist, too egotistically sensitive for the world.
More often, the powerful nations of the globe — Russia, China, the United States — behave egotistically, and when they do so, the smaller countries worry, as well they should.
His Albrecht is pleasingly, egotistically virile, dismissing his squire (the witty Alexei Agoudine) and every other intrusion of reality.
"Stross writes like an internet puppy: energetically, egotistically, sometimes amusingly, sometimes affectingly, but always irritatingly, and goes on being energetic and egotistical and amusing for far too long," he continued.
And I don't mean that egotistically – I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it".
It's the San Francisco Giants vs. the Cincinnati Reds at the egotistically named Great American Ballpark.
Charlie Stross, for instance, he described as writing "like an internet puppy: energetically, egotistically, sometimes amusingly, sometimes affectingly, but always irritatingly, and goes on being energetic and egotistical and amusing for far too long.
He's talking to me, I thought, egotistically.
