How to Use self-absorption in a Sentence

self-absorption

noun

• The depth of her ambition was hard to reach, as was her self-absorption.
  — Sara Wheeler, Big Think, 17 Apr. 2026
• That blindness, that self-absorption, has become your legacy.
  — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 9 Oct. 2025
• This self-absorption can lead to two varieties of policy failures.
  — Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 7 Dec. 2022
• Her self-absorption at this critical juncture is exactly what Julien needed to hear to feel free to abandon ship.
  — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
• His self-absorption, against the backdrop of such enormous loss, was particularly striking.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA Today, 20 Apr. 2025
• This self-absorption can lead to anxiety, research suggests, which prevents people from reaching out in the first place out of a fear of rejection.
  — Allie Volpe, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
• Simon is often his own worst enemy, letting his self-absorption and professional hang-ups derail him.
  — Tim Grierson, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
• Frost’s well is a modern version of Narcissus’ pool, and his poem is a meditation on self-absorption and its limits.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
• Beware the tendency to slip into self-absorption as a Dragon, however.
  — Kyle Lucia Wu, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Feb. 2026
• But, sometimes, accomplishment and self-absorption can go together.
  — Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2025
• While fans will find the extreme scenarios familiar, newcomers might be surprised by the characters’ self-absorption.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 28 June 2024
• Maybe the symptoms of his cognitive decline are inextricable from what seemed to you to be his general self-absorption and thoughtlessness.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
• Thanksgiving is our emancipation from self-absorption or selfishness.
  — Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
• Over the past half century, the city’s culture has descended into one of entitlement, complacency and self-absorption.
  — Michael Bernick, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• Both behavioral traits share some core symptoms, including self-absorption, a high sense of self-importance, hostility, and a high sense of entitlement.
  — Joy Emeh, Health, 9 Sep. 2024
• Within and around that serious and timely matter, the musical’s creators found time and space to affectionately send up the vanity and self-absorption of some — many?
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2023
• Its author, Dan Fox, works to separate pretentiousness from the many turnoffs the word conjures, like arrogance, self-absorption and snobbery.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2023
• But, while it is not yet reflected in the GOP presidential polls, there is a risk that Trump becomes tedious in his legal self-absorption.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
• The biggest emotional gut punch comes not from anything that happens to Strings, but when Essie is predictably cast aside as yet another pawn in the crooner's game of high-minded self-absorption.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
• Nadja distracts Leon from finishing his latest novel and, with brutal honesty, forces him to confront his caustic temperament and self-absorption.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 20 June 2023
• Back on the homefront, Zora lapses into blathering self-absorption and even Billie, the nurse, comments on her need to devote more quality time to her daughter.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Sep. 2023
• Massive self-absorption, vanity, and insecurity were their hallmarks.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• Monologuing about the minutiae of one’s DNA is self-absorption at, quite literally, the cellular level.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
• But that feckless self-absorption is rerouted, if not extinguished, by a chance sighting of local resident Charlotte (Alison Pill).
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
• Nichols argues that in an era of jaundiced self-absorption, citizens in Western societies have lost their appreciation of democratic values and the virtues of civic engagement.
  — Tom Nichols, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
• For audiences familiar with the story, where Cécile and Anne end up will not surprise, but newbies will likely be shocked at the potency of Cécile’s teenage self-absorption.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2024
• The show centers around Lauren Caspian (voiced by Woods), public radio’s third most popular host, whose self-absorption and haughtiness are matched only by the dulcet tenor of his voice.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2024
• The romantic storyline represents uncharted territory for a character known more for self-absorption than self-reflection.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
• The action cuts back and forth from Anna and Alice in Rome, the latter still deeply resentful and convinced the whole elaborate story is just some morbid fantasy hatched out of her mother’s self-absorption.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
• Making savvy use of that thriller conceit, Tolkin’s wildly entertaining first novel offers a front-row seat to the self-absorption that characterizes those who would (and do) become mythmakers in Tinseltown.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024