Most of them turn out to be long-winded hagiographies or self-absorbed and pedagogic narratives.
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You are truly extraordinarily and uniquely self-absorbed in a town where self-absorption is common.
Whether it was his intention or not, Mr Berendt exposes Venice as a self-absorbed and heartless city.
He's an avenging angel who's too blindly self-absorbed to see the contagious evil of what he's trying to do.
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The new, self-absorbed Europe can pretty much ignore what happens outside its boundaries.
If there is a theme to be found in The Red Moccasins' songs, it is something of a self-absorbed one.
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Perhaps it is human nature that when executives reach the top of big organizations, they often become self-absorbed and remote.
People become less self-absorbed and ironically, more likely to be genuinely happy.
And the story itself doesn't end up a downer as the fable unfolds, telling how even a loutish, self-absorbed lawyer can ultimately find redemption.
He could be self-absorbed far beyond the point of mere incivility.
Celebrities, for instance, "are expected to be completely self-absorbed, " he says.
The best leaders recognize this attitude and studiously avoid being self-absorbed.
When he spoke, the normally self-absorbed digerati listened with rapt attention.
Swanberg makes James merely a man stolid, ambitious, capable, sentimental, and self-absorbed.
Affleck briefly plays the self-absorbed actor Ned Alleyn, and the best thing you can say about his wavering accent is that at least he isn't Keanu Reeves.
Such self-absorbed and narcissistic behavior fits the profile of a man who, even then, made no secret of his ambition to be President of the United States.
Politicians and bureaucrats are so self-absorbed they are tone deaf.
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The campaign promise that mattered most to Indians was not swadeshi but suraj, good government, a break with the self-absorbed and corrupt governance with which Indians are familiar.
Pat is mainly just silly and infantile a self-absorbed manic chatterbox.
Meanwhile, some excessively self-absorbed copyright holders have been lobbying on multiple fronts for expanded power to control everything from the Internet to the electronic devices people use to access music or movies.
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He seems consumed by his own thoughts, whether onscreen or in a piece of music, but there's one crucial key to the success of his art: He never comes off as self-absorbed.
His performances on air and in the courtroom were widely derided by prosecutors, legal analysts and commentators as narcissistic, self-absorbed and even more hurtful to the young men he was convicted of molesting.
They are, however, fundamentally self-absorbed and self-promoting.
In "Tropic Thunder, " a comedy about self-absorbed Hollywood types making a "Platoon"-style war movie, Downey plays Australian actor Kirk Lazarus, a multiple Oscar-winning performer who gets so involved in his roles that he forgets to come out of them.
And some people are self-absorbed, lack personal goals, associate with the wrong crowd in the wrong places, or constantly blame others for failing to get ahead in life, rather than taking the right steps to escape from this context.
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This is both a reference to the self-absorbed role of the film's narrator, and to the broader sense that such campaigns can be deeply paternalistic, even neo-colonial, in their portrayal of Africans as helpless victims who must be saved by brave foreigners.
And although it may seem unimaginable that Hollywood could ever go the way of Detroit, whose greedy car workers and self-absorbed bosses were nearly the death of the American car industry, it is worth remembering how unimaginable it once was that Detroit could go the way of Detroit.
"Nowhere is the lack of U.S. strategic policy more evident than in the unchecked rise of a self-absorbed, unstable strongman in Venezuela who has made common cause with terrorists and the regimes that support them, and has developed a revolutionary ideology that has begun to plunge the Americas again into violence and chaos, " the paper says.
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Nowhere is the lack of a U.S. strategic approach to the Western Hemisphere more evident than in the unchecked rise of a self-absorbed, unstable strongman in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, who has made common cause with terrorists and the regimes that support them, and has developed a revolutionary ideology that has begun to plunge the Americas again into violence and chaos.
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