as in self-complacency
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Noun
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Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.—
BÁLINT MADLOVICS,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Feb. 2025 -
Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2024
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Trump himself personifies stupidity’s essential feature — self-satisfaction, an inability to recognize the flaws in your thinking.—
David Brooks,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2025
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Just as there’s no dramatic build-up to Maria landing the part, there’s no romance to the process of acting it, nor the slightest whiff of self-satisfaction in recreating iconic scenes.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
21 Mar. 2025
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The Complacency Danger One worry about conceiving AI as normal technology is that this might slide society into a semblance of complacency about AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 May 2025
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As is becoming more and more apparent, the people who brought us success, without Vichai guiding them, fell foul to complacency, poor decision-making and a struggle to adapt to a changing landscape.—
Rob Tanner,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Most of the film plays out in something close to real time, and the directors, loath to hurry scenes along, slow the action down with a technical virtuosity that sometimes tilts into self-admiration.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2025
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At first, Oliver meekly and gratefully laps up, metaphorically, the warm milk of affection that the family bestows on him between their rounds of backbiting and oblivious self-admiration.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
18 Nov. 2023
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Saint Laurent’s Gaby vanity bag and Miu Miu’s suede pouch nabbed the No. 4 and No. 5 spots respectively.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
1 May 2025
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The cosmic dateline sounds like a billionaire’s vanity project in an area where the man and his galactic dreams already enjoy broad support from residents and state and local officials.—
Jim Vertuno,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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On October 15, 1924, André Breton published a manifesto that was as notable for its belligerence as its egotism.—
Jonathon Keats,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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After his death the day after Easter at age 88, Francis was hailed for pushing Catholics and others to forsake egotism and materialism in favor of a kinder, more tolerant world focused above all on the marginalized.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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The speech confirmed that Trump has less to fear from his opposition than from his own hubris.—
The Editors,
National Review,
5 Mar. 2025
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But whether hubris turns into overreach comes down to whether Trump and his team can accurately read what voters are asking for.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
27 Nov. 2024
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.—
Isaac Butler,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2023
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That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Sep. 2023
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