Don't get me wrong, I like seeing pictures of myself just as much as the next nerd, but Facebook's Timeline takes self-obsession to a level that feels too egocentric.
(The Bagger recommends it, but only for brief stretches; otherwise it begins to feel like an egocentric house of mirrors. That's probably why we get along with actors so well).
We don't need a map or a compass to work it out, we just feel it, because the egocentric coordinates are based directly on our own bodies and our immediate visual fields.
If a love song is inherently egocentric -- I feel something or other because you did something -- then Olsen's new album "Burn Your Fire for No Witness" is about grappling with romance in an era besotted with narcissistic status updates.
For the second half of the miniseries, he's in that condition; Wilkinson's fearsomely hard eyes convey Joe's egocentric rage — and we feel very much like his wife, Rose Diana Hardcastlee), regarding him with both genuine pity and a sense of satisfaction that he can do no more harm.
The political arena right now can make any sane person feel sick and angry because of the few selfish leaders imposing their own egocentric whims.
I cede the movie theater to you, the egocentric army of inconsideration (with whom Paranormal's besieged and idiotic couple would probably feel right at home).
He hates his father enough to dream of killing him, and to feel little sorrow when he is killed, but we never see the father, unless it is in the bizarre guise of Johnnie Walker, and know only that he was a famous artist and, as such, probably pretty egocentric.
How would you feel if you were big in the BBC and everywhere you went, members of your peer group took you aside to ask why you were letting a group of bloody-minded, egocentric old journalists destroy the fine work of the corporation?
They believed that young children were egocentric, so they stared continually into the camera in their videos and TV shows, and explained every action because they believed that young children needed to be told what to expect in order to feel safe.
