Examples of navel-gazing in a Sentence
a singer-songwriter whose compositions are too often exercises in self-important navel-gazing
Recent Examples on the Web
Cook moved past the navel-gazing of perfectionist designers to get the product out the door, scaling with unprecedented success.
—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
Now The human consciousness question is not just philosophical navel-gazing.
—Barry Libert, Forbes.com, 17 Mar. 2026
No one suffers from main-character syndrome more than the navel-gazing (yet undeniably fabulous) columnist, who has a not-so-subtle habit of constantly redirecting nearly every group conversation back to her own B.S.
—Marc Snetiker, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2025
Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for navel-gazing
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
Now The human consciousness question is not just philosophical navel-gazing.
—Barry Libert, Forbes.com, 17 Mar. 2026
No one suffers from main-character syndrome more than the navel-gazing (yet undeniably fabulous) columnist, who has a not-so-subtle habit of constantly redirecting nearly every group conversation back to her own B.S.
—Marc Snetiker, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2025
Equal to Tesfaye’s navel-gazing, Shults uses every trick in the music-video playbook to conjure a vivid, ultra-saturated but not quite realistic universe where the Weeknd is a brightly burning sun everyone revolves around.
—Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 15 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for navel-gazing
Cite this Entry
“Navel-gazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/navel-gazing. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
