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the novel's major characters all suffer from self-absorption, and they are every bit as insufferable as such people are in real life
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While fans will find the extreme scenarios familiar, newcomers might be surprised by the characters’ self-absorption.
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Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
As Tanner’s novel explores these topics, its depiction of Jules’s relationships also highlights absurdities of contemporary culture and the consequences of self-absorption.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
This self-absorption can lead to two varieties of policy failures.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2022
Like a petulant teenager, the U.S. periodically goes through stages of fretful self-absorption.
—Jon Sebastian Shifrin, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024
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Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
As Tanner’s novel explores these topics, its depiction of Jules’s relationships also highlights absurdities of contemporary culture and the consequences of self-absorption.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
This self-absorption can lead to two varieties of policy failures.
—Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2022
Like a petulant teenager, the U.S. periodically goes through stages of fretful self-absorption.
—Jon Sebastian Shifrin, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for self-absorption
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“Self-absorption.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-absorption. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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