Sentence examples for self-preoccupation from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

It is also bound, through its self-defeating preoccupation with economic growth, to sideline aspects that do not claim to serve that purpose.

The critics of his later work would argue that the arthouse audiences of the early 1990s fell so heavily for Kieslowski precisely because he held up the most flattering of mirrors to their self-indulgent preoccupations with identity and fate.

Influenced by avant-garde artists like Carolee Schneemann — and long before the exhibitionist likes of "Big Brother" and Lena Dunham Ms. Robertsonon turned her private self and preoccupations into a performance, one shaped by quotidian rituals and obsessions, her cats and crushes, and the food she bought, grew, cooked and consumed, sometimes to her unhappiness.

Taken together with the novel, which had managed to assimilate the arch, self-referential preoccupations of the metafictionalists of an earlier generation without sacrificing emotional availability or outlandish comedy, the stories had made Wallace the byword, among my college friends, for the Future of American Fiction.