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• s  absorbed in your own interests or thoughts etc

• There is but one observation that I can offer: Patients like Susan, as self-absorbed as they are, know it immediately.
• Southwest Airlines showed a self-absorbed kid on a cell phone pulling up in a convertible with "2RICH4U" license plates, scaring away the pigeons an old man was feeding.
• The backroom poker player, on the other hand, is more cautious and self-absorbed.

• self-involved

News & Articles

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• Fat JewSwears He's Serious About Giving Homeless People SoulCycle Classes On Docked Citi Bikes
  Yesterday, a video featuring TV personality and rapper The Fat Jew—a.k.a. Fabrizio Goldstein—showing him giving free SoulCycle classes on docked Citi Bikes to people identified as "the homeless" spread like wildfire. A lot of people, including us, assumed the video was a parody of self-absorbed fitness-crazed trainers mashed together with the hottest Citi Bike trend —but Goldstein told us that ...
  June 21, 2013 - Gothamist
• Altered brain structure in pathological narcissism
  A far-reaching disorder of the self-esteem is denoted as a narcissistic personality disorder. Persons with pathological narcissism on the one hand suffer from feelings of inferiority, while on the other hand projecting themselves to the world as arrogant, disparaging and self-absorbed. One of the key features of a narcissistic personality disorder is the lack of empathy. Although patients ...
  June 19, 2013 - Science Daily
• New fluent Survey Reveals Summer 2013 Forecast for College Millennials: More Work, Less Fun
  Lazy, self-absorbed and entitled? Practical, heads-down and resourceful might be more accurate descriptors for today's College Millennial Consumers , according to a new survey of 1,600+ U.S. college students. ...
  June 18, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• David Paterson in Slate
  I think if I got to a point where I thought my candidacy was hurting my party, obviously it would be rather self-absorbed to go forward,Paterson said.
• Walter Bedell Smith in International Herald Tribune
  In her 1990 biography of Paley, "In All His Glory," Sally Bedell Smith wrote: "Temperamentally, the two men were opposites: Paley, the man of boundless charm, superficially warm but essentially heartless and self-absorbed; Stanton, the...
• Johan Franzen in abc11tv.com
  It self-absorbed between two and three weeks,Franzen added. "It was a little bit scary. I couldn't do anything because that would have been dangerous."