It is all of us who have forfeited our power by being self-fully obsessed with our losses, lost sight of our opportunities, and separated ourselves from gratitude and forgiveness.
Harriett's life of self-denial is Sinclair's indictment of a society which demanded women should turn themselves into self-sacrificing nonentities obsessed with pursuing "moral beauty" instead of self-fulfilment.
Wiesenthal comes across as a self-important busybody, obsessed with titles and recognition, squabbling with rivals.
Rachel Felder is a New York-based style writer, self-described as "obsessed with everything vintage, from Emilio Pucci dresses to vinyl Tim Buckley albums to FireKing dishware".
Mr. Carter's rambunctious, complicated constructions of painted, jigsawed plywood look like technical maps made by a self-taught artist obsessed with air and sea travel and communication.
Of course, several factors explain China's shift from a self-absorbed power obsessed with sovereignty to an influential international actor, not least of which is China's growing economic might.
To seal their family's position and power, Cosimo and Giovanni picked Brunelleschi, a rough, self-taught architect obsessed with rediscovering the secrets of Greek and Roman temples, to design works in the Medici name, including the cathedral dome.
You realize you've become this very self-serious creature, obsessed with aesthetics—and if that's the case then it's just a really satisfying frat, and that's kind of amoral.
Ms. Iizuka's script doesn't have the lyric weapons to stand up to the staging pyrotechnics, but this is nonetheless an intellectually engaging work, presenting Welles as a self-defeating artist obsessed with capturing the truth of life "within a frame" and conducting a lifelong battle with the standard he set for himself in his first movie, "Citizen Kane".
Walsh says that her letters, and Craft's commentaries, give "the impression of a pious, saintly, worn-out, self-abnegating woman, obsessed with the agony of ill health, and resigned -- one could say, unnaturally so -- to a vicarious, unregarded existence in the shadow of a celebrated and unfaithful husband".
The deontologist now can look overly self-indulgent, so obsessed with the purity of her own soul that she will not sacrifice her integrity for the greater good (see Ridge 2001a).
