egotism

How To Use egotism In A Sentence

• The visible developments of their hidden existence do seem, in their results, like egotism; but who shall dare to say that the man who has abnegated self to give pleasure, instruction, or grandeur to his epoch, is an egoist? Modeste Mignon
• But the positive value of this female-identified modesty remains outweighed by the disadvantages which a lack of egotism implies in psychology.
• But though the embroidery of his conversation was different, the groundwork was the same, and the high-flown and ornate compliments with which the gallant knight of the sixteenth century inter-larded his conversation, were as much the offspring of egotism and self-conceit, as the jargon of the coxcombs of our own days. The Monastery
• Although Paulette is suffocating under his egotism, there is a great scene in which she watches the great man at work and is entranced by his handiness with a brush and paint.
• Hinduism, for instance, admonishes its followers to seek "moksha," or liberation from egotism. Offerings Without an Altar
• Maybe that's selfishness and egotism, but that's how I feel.
• The only excuse for that burst of egotism is that you asked forrit. A Life in Letters
• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. Thomas Carlyle 
• All clearly intended to be repellent, and, sadly, achieving its aim, in what seemed -- as it was meant to be -- an endless barrage of persiflage, bad poetry, and egotism, in which I, like the character played with immaculate restraint by David Hyde Pierce, cringed and prayed for flight. Gwen Davis: La Bete
• Denial would appear to be in fact much more common even than excess egotism.