Re "The Transition to My Real Self" (Preoccupations, March 6), in which Brittany Lynn Roche described her journey as a transsexual: The bravery that Ms. Roche displayed in accepting herself, and her courageousness in going public with her story, touched my heart.
The Williams sisters annoy some people with their self-preoccupation.
"Our basic thrust is away from self-preoccupation," he said.
Both poets began with the same ingredients: self-preoccupation and an instinctive response to nature.
That period was a lesson in the perils of self-preoccupation.
Self-preoccupation creates an ego that is at once overinflated, insatiable and overly sensitive.
After the self-preoccupation of some other directors, he was refreshing and endearing.
"The air of petulant self-preoccupation, the arrogantly sensitive beauty, the mannered, disdainful lyricism.
Judging from the outside, the rest of us are pikers of self-preoccupation next to A-Rod.
Kelly Reilly is stunning as Louise, suggesting the character's mix of erotic wildness, determined self-preoccupation and deep loneliness.
Transplantation to Seattle, to marry Beth and take the Washington job, has not dented his abstraction, his self-preoccupation.
