How To Use Egocentric In A Sentence
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Sociopaths are very egocentric individuals that lack a sense of personal responsibility and morality.
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He has been shown to be dishonest, calculating, egocentric, manipulative and a control freak.
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Still, the egocentric child typically lacks any appreciation or knowledge of the game from a social point of view.
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As it is, Martin is a dreadful bore - arrogant, self-important and so egocentric it's a wonder he had time to obsess about anyone other than himself.
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For instance, drug-using mothers have been characterized as egocentric with a narcissistic orientation toward their children.
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She can tell that he is still the shallow, egocentric man she once worked for.
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Maybe that's an egocentric position, but I'm not one of those community above everything individuals - I also care about myself.
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Are we all egocentric, narcissistic online exhibitionists who believe our lives are so important that they deserve to be publicised?
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Taking yourself out of the picture helps shift you away from an egocentric perspective and allows the other images in the dream to come forward.
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He was a man of undoubted genius, but bad-tempered, egocentric, and impossible to live with.
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That is they tend to be aggressive, narrow-minded, egocentric, irritable, ignorant, and bad-tempered.
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Somebody who has a narcissistic personality disorder would be so extremely egocentric that other people would find it very difficult to tolerate being with them.
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He paints the characters as shallow, egocentric individuals who exist primarily to have a good time.
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So if God is the big center, and then God tells you - through a priest, through a scripture, through a dogma - that the infidel must be destroyed, then you'll obey, and you'll act just as egocentrically as you project that God is.
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Sir Stephen may have been an egocentric cur, but he, at least, was noble!
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The heart and soul of a dysfunctional, egocentrical party of the "we are entitled".
CNN Political Ticker
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He was egocentric, a man of impulse who expected those around him to serve him.
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We discover his alcoholism, his egocentricity, his collapsing marriage.
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B: You have to act socio-centrically, not egocentrically.
Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes
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Avoid egocentric tendencies to demand too much personal attention.
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As people will tend to obsess or view information egocentrically, how objective one's perspective is on this recently conceived information helps apply it to whatever it may be at hand.
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Eddie is a nice guy, so we can't imagine why he is so devoted to Gwen, a vain and egocentric diva.
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The music that is being promulgated, that is being produced and broadcast most widely, is aggressive, very shiny, very egocentric, very repetitive, and noisy, busy, and in some ways, mindless.
Christopher Lydon: Yehudi Wyner's life in music: composer with piano hands
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State your opinion that's fine, but to call your opinion the best is just egocentrical garbage.
Undefined
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I think we all will go quietly. kinda egocentrical to think it will be a big thing?
Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
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He has to give up his egocentricity and develop the beginnings of a more altruistic point of view.
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The Finnish soprano, towering over all in a striking purple sheath dress, gave an attractively unshowy performance, integrating her voice with the orchestral textures rather than egocentrically standing apart.
BBC Proms 65 and 66 Berlin Philharmonic/Simon Rattle
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He was an amazing bass player, better than many professional session musicians, and yet he had none of their attitude or egocentricity.
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For instance, drug-using mothers have been characterized as egocentric with a narcissistic orientation toward their children.
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Thanks to their egocentricity, preschoolers are afraid of being left alone.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Discussing Breast Cancer with Children
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The longest transposals look rather boring, since they are all minor variations: congregationalists congregationalists congregationalist congregationalist algorithmically logarithmically representatives representatives congregational congregational establishments establishments egocentrically geocentrically certifications rectifications consolidations disconsolation conservatoires conservatories
Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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We need to make ourselves gentle, peaceful, flexible and tame, rather than being undisciplined, rigid, stubborn egocentrics.
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No one got along with him and he was an egocentric.
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Kk, I’m drunk, and then I’m becoming somewhat egocentrical.
Playing the race placard « BuzzMachine
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He had always seemed blasé and perhaps a bit egocentric.
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It was a man's world, and being a man of his time, he had very narrow beliefs and lived in a totally egocentric world.
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With egocentric/narcistic leaders (both GOP and Dem) at all levels of government it is a wonder this country is in the shape it is in.
Sanford impeachment unlikely, state legislators say
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This makes sense, given the egocentric and selfish nature of these crimes, compared to those of political activists, who often have ideological motivations.
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It is my hope that people will learn valuable lessons, calculate less for self-interest, and think less egocentrically, with more humanitarian considerations, so that separated families in all parts of the world might reunite again.
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Egocentric, in context, is usually not an accusation, but an observation.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: July 20, 2006
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Those claims were both hypothetical and injudicious and could hinder police investigations when ensued by the ranting claims and scurrilous allegations by a small number of egocentric politicians.
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Children without a theory of mind think egocentrically.
ToM
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The standard condemnation of people who use ‘I’ too much is that they're too egocentric or immodest.
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He proved a selfish, egocentric, ungrateful, and treacherous recipient of Noble's many kindnesses.
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Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.
Miles to Go
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Egocentricity is a basic feature of deixis, but deictic projection exists in practical usage of deixis.
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‘Because we know we're trying to be sarcastic or funny, we egocentrically assume our audience will, as well,’ he says.
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DB: Well, right now we are seeing what we call our third level system: egocentric, predatory, express self impulsively, “to hell with others”—moving into the fourth level system: that absolutistic, one right way, ideology, -ism.
IShift - Don Beck on the Essential Shifts (2006 Transcript)
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Finally, controlling for egocentric processing/self-referent mental simulation may help elucidate the role of self-processing in spatial cognition.
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The longest transposals look rather boring, since they are all minor variations: congregationalists congregationalists congregationalist congregationalist algorithmically logarithmically representatives representatives congregational congregational establishments establishments egocentrically geocentrically certifications rectifications consolidations disconsolation conservatoires conservatories
Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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Likewise, leadership theory is egocentric, emphasizing the power of the individual.
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17. Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
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His scientific knowhow is matched only by his egocentricity, which makes Simon an incredibly entertaining character to watch.
‘FlashForward’ Episode 1.10 Recap: ‘A561984′ » MTV Movies Blog
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He must have been reading my comments about his bowling, it must have upset him, Boycott said, thus managing, with exquisite egocentricity, to make it all about Geoffrey Boycott, not Michael Yardy.
Amateur psychologists to be avoided in delicate Michael Yardy debate | Paul Hayward
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I try to type "geocentric" and discover that I have typed "egocentric"; is Autocorrect making a sort of cosmic joke?
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Deberian ser avergonzados todos los lideres del mundo entero, por no haber protestado ya hace años por este crimen y egocentricismo de parte de dos bandidos y sus lacayos.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: “President Lula is a nerd”
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By his own admission, he's been caricatured by his peers as ‘egocentric, dominating, and untalented’.
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Because they view themselves and others so critically, they egocentrically believe that others are viewing them critically as well.
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If you give charity 100 times, the repetition of the physical act breaks down your egocentricity and engrains the behavior of a more charitable person.
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I don't want to sound self centered of egocentric, but I was the reason he was happy.
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Both tend to be egocentrically oriented we work in order to attain personal wealth, and we play to satisfy out own personal desire to be entertained.
TEXAS FAITH: What do your spiritual paths say about the role of play? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
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They hope their words and deeds can cause the attention of other, peacockish , egocentric, ego abandon, often react to trifling bagatelle mood too intense, sometimes for no reason gets angry.
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The earlier humanitarian Ahab no longer concerns himself with humanity but devotes himself to his own egocentric desires.
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Part of the problem is that the egocentricity of childhood means that it sometimes takes years for us to really get to know our mothers as people.
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More egocentrically, he is elite, after all, Democratic Party notwithstanding.
Why did Gore abandon us?
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As a consequence, this prevalence of mass marketing and consumerism has led to a selfish, egocentric culture where one's own apparent needs and desires come first at the exclusion of the needs of others.
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Carter, who was just 23 when LeBron hired him, has been faulted for ruining LeBron's image by orchestrating such an egocentric approach to LeBron's announcement to move, and the move in general, to Miami.
Michael Evans: LeBron James and President Obama: A Comparison
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In comparison, I think he felt these poems were too egocentric.
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The central goverment egocentrically allocated national resources basing on which clan one originated rather than need.
Equitable Distribution of Resources Key to National Unity
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The other are a bunch of stadium-hogging egocentrics whose lead singer has almost bankrupt the band on two separate occasions due to ill-advised property investments.
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They were generally egocentric, were big spenders and worked for their employers for longer than five years before they started embezzling money.
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One can also postulate that much of a child's inability to deal with himself and the world comes from egocentricity.
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Personally, I find thinking of God in Trinitarian terms particularly helpful in making sense of the notion of God as eternal love, since it is hard to envisage love or at least, a love that is not egocentrical without there being more than one person.
Ecce Recensus: The Only True God Persuades A Skeptic
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True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
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But some accidents happen because of their egocentric tendency to think of themselves as invulnerable.
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If one doesn't have a political conscience and if one has the material or physical means, it's easy to be egocentric.
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If you give charity 100 times, the repetition of the physical act breaks down your egocentricity and engrains the behavior of a more charitable person.
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Aren't critics just egocentric bullies employed to be phonily controversial?
Times, Sunday Times
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He is kind of an egocentric person and I guess if he doesn't read much, he doesn't think anyone does either.
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There is town pride; and then there is just plain egocentric stupidity.
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fn1. e.g. here - the transition from egocentric to exocentric in population sense as display shrinks.
Size Zounts
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His father, Alan Fry, was written up as the villain in these early times; an inventor whose ‘infuriatingly, cold, precise ratiocinating engine of a brain fuelled by a wholly egocentric passion.’
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Aristocratic characters were generally portrayed as egocentric individuals with loose morals and a tendency to treat women either as sex objects or as a means of exchange.
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The breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that comes to mind is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.
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Babies are entirely egocentric, concerned only with when they will next be fed.
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After a chance meeting, they go to the yakitori restaurant that Myon runs with her sister Yan and her pathetic, egocentric father, who is wanted by the yakuzos.
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‘Ian's just a little egocentric sometimes,’ Gavin replied.
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First, it was a good thing that the negotiation process was led by a pair of egocentric men whose machismo instincts somehow consistently outweighed common courtesy, common dignity and common sense.
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And he drifted away from institute activities, says Gribel, who believes his "egocentric, nondiplomatic behavior" may have rubbed others the wrong way.
Why Does This Prominent Amazon Researcher Face 14 Years in Prison for Biopiracy?
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The adolescent is emboldened with an egocentric belief in the omnipotence of logical thought.
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In contrast, the most destructive thing in our lives, the perpetual experience of great suffering, is brought about by our own egocentric clinging to selfish and insatiable pursuits.
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In contrast, the dorsal stream is activated more rapidly, is specialized for the guidance of action, does not make its outputs available for direct report, and codes spatial position in an egocentric reference frame.
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The findings from the three studies do not support the notion that adolescents believe others are attentive to and critical of their every move, or that their social cognition and perception is egocentric and distorted.
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True, we are expected to moonwalk across the vast waters dividing technology from the masses and tiptoe back on egocentric eggshells, circumventing treacherous misunderstandings and political back-stabbing.
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He was egocentric, a man of impulse who expected those around him to serve him.
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It's a mental disease that infects people with the egocentric and ethnocentric delusion that they are superior, and they justify themselves by taking isolated words and phrases from thier relligious scriptures, whether they be in the Torah or Tanach or Bible or Qur'an.
Religious Fundamentalism in Israel
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You're being a little egocentric, don't you think?
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Authenticity is incredibly important in a Blogging Community (phonies and egocentrics are revealed as such pretty quickly).
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Cultures, philosophies and religions of the world that appear diametrically opposed, subjected to the unknown perhaps the true leveler of egocentricity, rendering all of us mere fragments and preventing our mass destruction.
Kevin Bermeister: How Atheists And Believers Approach The Known And Unknown
