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Recent Examples of navel-gazing Beyond the lifeboat of major film festivals, which still assist a handful of buzzy international and independent films in their treacherous journey to release, such entities as the self-congratulatory, navel-gazing Oscars have seemingly abandoned the inclusion of riskier, daring films. Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 25 Dec. 2024 Ortberg urged staff to focus on beating its French planemaker competitor Airbus instead of navel-gazing at its own issues. Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2024 In the end, this leads to a novel that might be Murakami’s most navel-gazing work, and one that has the unmistakable feel of a coda. Bailey Trela, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024 That deserves far more digital ink to be spilled than the usual navel-gazing about how iPhones are boring. Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for navel-gazing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for navel-gazing
Noun
  • My downfall was rooted in my selfishness.
    Tracy Wright , Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • My downfall was rooted in my selfishness.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Play Tetris in your bathroom vanity or junk drawer with these versatile containers.
    Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Stainless-steel twin vanities are tucked into niches at opposite ends of the 20-foot-long space, while the water closet and double shower are obscured behind frosted glass and metal doors.
    Mark David, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The ’60s stood on the fault line between the culture of peace and love and what would become the culture of narcissism.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • His narcissism, which tells him there will be no world after he is gone, does the same.
    Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Both are ruggedly handsome, gruff and not short on ego.
    Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The best chief executives know that there’s no place for ego in determining when to go; what matters is what’s best for the institution.
    Kurt Strovink, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Wettig noted in an August 2009 interview with NPR that though Thirtysomething's characters were often accused of being narcissistic by critics, their self-involvement was also reflective of the time.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In terms that viewers of the original series might understand, Esmeralda falls somewhere between the tyranny of Michael Scott, the absurdity of Dwight Schrute, and the self-involvement of Kelly Kapoor with a particular charisma that only Impacciatore could pull off.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Navel-gazing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/navel-gazing. Accessed 14 Oct. 2025.

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