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narcissism
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  • "I'm too ugly to be a narcissist," he said.  (source)
    narcissist = person with exceptional admiration of themselves
  • twins all bound up in tandem narcissism  (source)
    narcissism = exceptional self-interest or self-admiration
  • I worried that I was just being melodramatic or narcissistic.†  (source)
    narcissistic = having exceptional self-interest and self-admiration
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  • Thomas Mann, a German, sends his elderly writer to Venice to die (in Death in Venice, 1912), but not before discovering a nasty streak of pederasty and narcissism in himself.†  (source)
    narcissism = an exceptional and unhealthy self-interest and self-admiration
  • This correspondence, as one might expect, reflected sharply divergent points of view: Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals; others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity, and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received.†  (source)
    narcissist = someone with exceptional and unhealthy self-interest and self-admiration
  • Phillip is narcissistic and only does things that benefit him, and I've come to realize this has been the case all along.†  (source)
    narcissistic = having exceptional self-interest and self-admiration
  • "And you should have just seen my little feet twinkle up Sargent and around the corner into Bailey Place," was the way she narcissistically painted her flight.†  (source)
    narcissistically = with exceptional self-interest and self-admiration
  • He was successful over half the time, which wasn't bad, considering the cases were usually damning, the accused extremely unlikable—cheaters, narcissists, sociopaths.†  (source)
    narcissists = people with exceptional self-interest and self-admiration
  • I also left room for the possibility that they had adapted to this dynamic out of necessity, the quiet daughter eclipsed by the attention-diverting self-absorbed mother routine, that Madaline's narcissism was perhaps an act of kindness, of maternal protectiveness.†  (source)
    narcissism = an exceptional and unhealthy self-interest and self-admiration
  • Narcissist?†  (source)
    Narcissist = someone with exceptional and unhealthy self-interest and self-admiration
  • He spoke sternly about the danger of "seeking false happiness in a variety of narcissistic pleasures."†  (source)
    narcissistic = having exceptional self-interest and self-admiration
  • Mr. McArdle played leading roles on no fewer than three daytime radio serials when he was in New York, and he had what might be called a third-class leading man's speaking voice: narcissistically deep and resonant, functionally prepared at a moment's notice to outmale anyone in the same room with it, if necessary even a small boy.†  (source)
    narcissistically = with exceptional self-interest and self-admiration
  • I had deigned to sleep only with tall, exotically handsome narcissists in the past.†  (source)
    narcissists = people with exceptional self-interest and self-admiration
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