How To Use Narcissism In A Sentence

Most of us rove in the middle range of self-identification, with an indulgent but generally people-friendly narcissism.
I gave this phenomenon the name of'the narcissism of minor differences '. Times, Sunday Times
It would be like taking the 'narc' out of narcissism. Digg.com: Stories / Popular
He believes that such behavior results from personality traits such as narcissism as well as a memory bias.
No respect for the rule of law, utter narcissism, absolutely untrustworthy to anyone close to them who trusts them (the Clinton/Edwards tradition), unlimited ability to pursue public policies leading to disaster if it provides the ability to pander to their ultra-left donors - all wrapped around with endless self righteousness. Spitzer considering Senate run? …No, really? - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

Psychologists call this narcissism, the personality trait that was inspired by Narcissus, the Greek god who saw his reflection in a pool and fell in love with himself.
Often it looks to me like cultural narcissism is prevalent no matter where your viewing point may be. America The Stupid
Some have suggested that Winnicott immediately realized that Khan's narcissism made him essentially unanalyzable.
The answer is a personality trait called narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
It was narcissism at its peak, but there was relevance to the German designer's strict tailoring, with peaked shoulders and scalloped hems giving jackets a feminine edge.
I can't attribute my downfall to narcissism and only to narcissism.
We all know about wishful thinking, about denial and defence mechanisms, repression, narcissism, Freudian slips and the anal personality.
Neither seems remotely interested in the characters they invent as anything more than reflections of authorial narcissism.
One cringes at his bitterness, peevishness, and narcissism, but one also respects him for the fact that he cringes, too.
What you can't do is write the selfie off as pure narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
I gave this phenomenon the name of'the narcissism of minor differences '. Times, Sunday Times
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Erich Fromm
The kiss of the prince breaks the spell of narcissism and awakens a womanhood which up to then has remained undeveloped.
It might be vanity, narcissism or just indifference. Times, Sunday Times
‘One of the features of narcissism is enormous confidence and self-esteem,’ she observes.
The second is a factor which has been called narcissism, or excessive love and pampering of one's self, including intense preoccupation with one's own state of being.
Would-be doctors had personality defects ranging from extreme over-confidence, narcissism and aloofness to being overly empathetic.
Mirror shots abound as the characters' narcissism is exposed and the brittleness of appearances scrutinised.
More nasty is malign narcissism, which he calls reactive narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
It might be vanity, narcissism or just indifference. Times, Sunday Times
Narcissism and materialism were both drawn in sharp contrast to nihilism, but in the end the important thing was not to march in lockstep to the beat of any drummer.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Erich Fromm
Many have written about the narcissism in our poetry as a sign of indulging in privatism; but since redemption or salvation is primarily individual (and increasingly removed from culture), religiosity also attenuates that privatism.
Elsewhere, Astbury's signature blend of metal-god narcissism and shaman-like mysticism is in full bloom on the acoustic "Holy Mountain," glammy "Diamonds" and Bush rebuke "Tiger in the Sun," which oddly resembles the Cure's "Fascination Street. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
Filmed on a low budget in a 19-day shoot, the movie is a sincere but ultimately inadequate look at the film industry's narcissism and moral confusion.
Narcissism, in psycho-therapeutic parlance, is a term used to indicate a superficial personality type with a hyper-inflated sense of self to compensate for a grievously wounded core. Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Nice But Not Good: The Art of Spotting Narcissists
The prison that is erected under the law of monolingualism is one of narcissism and the inability to allow us to communicate and correctly understand those who are not like us. David Shasha: Monolingualism, Scriptural Translation and the Problem of Western Civilization
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose. Brene Brown
February 2nd, 2010 at 12: 00 pm tombaker says: the self-absorbed cynicism and fatalism of righties is astonishing. no faith in their own country. no can-do attitude. no regard for their fellow americans. just hundred-proof nihilism & narcissism. Think Progress » Rep. Frank Wolf claims trying terror suspects in civilian courts would be treating them better than our military.
Logo apes Bravo's Housewives bottom-feeders with the all-male The A-List: New York, where bitchy name-dropping narcissism is magnified by a desperate desire to play to the camera. Matt's TV Week in Review
To be sure, in both Freudian and Lacanian accounts this scenario establishes the ‘first’ sexual relations: those attached to the imago of the mother and to the autoeroticism associated with narcissism.
The collective narcissism of the Kerouac circle is ultimately boring.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Erich Fromm
Entertainment can often just be a kind of narcissism where you go to identify with people who are morally irreproachable and physically beautiful.
We know the desire for uniqueness is going up, and we know narcissism is going up. All the rage in baby names: What's unusual
More nasty is malign narcissism, which he calls reactive narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
But such is the extent of their solipsism and narcissism that they not only reject the existence of God but go so far as to mock those who do not, simply because they don't feel Him themselves.
You look at life for women today, it is the very definition of personal fantasy, of self-delusion, and of a narcissism so acute that to read through your average issue of a glamorous women's magazine is not that different from reading a porn magin fact, there are more adoring/self-hating naked female images in the women's mag. A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty
That all changed when, in her early fifties, Wilke's narcissism underwent the most dramatic conversion with her body's consumpton by disease, and audiences witnessed her youthful eagerness to show off her beauty proving itself to be but preparation for Wilke's unhesitating display of her own demise and death in a wholly unsentimental, even stoic art. G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
The selfie culture is in danger of becoming one of narcissism. The Sun
Narcissism, in psycho-therapeutic parlance, is a term used to indicate a superficial personality type with a hyper-inflated sense of self to compensate for a grievously wounded core. Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Nice But Not Good: The Art of Spotting Narcissists
Throw in the cars 'product-placement appearances on "Entourage," "The Sopranos" and "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and you paint a picture of a brand that is becoming synonymous with a kind of pitiable narcissism, a gum-smacking, Garden State idiocy. A Shapely Visitor From Planet Maserati
She walks around with some strange sense of entitlement and ego, thanks to her own narcissism and dumb fans who strangely look up to her!
If not selfless, then maybe Rashbrook is selfish in cementing her romantic bond with new cells - the everyday parental narcissism that is unlikely to be propitious for children.
I don't want to make any more comments to feed this woman's ego and narcissism. The Sun
Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion.
But who can doubt that, in a world teeming with narcissism and amorality, in which so many in authority refuse to judge or uphold standards, it serves as a model and an inspiration for millions of Americans?
The term narcissism is defined as excessive love or admiration of oneself or a psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem. Darren Littlejohn: The 12 Steps: An Antidote For Celebrities And Other Narcissistic Addicts
The selfie culture is in danger of becoming one of narcissism. The Sun
His is a compelling and often tragic story, but there's a definite element of narcissism there too.
Other psychologically important concepts developed by Ellis include autoerotism and narcissism, both of which were later taken on by Sigmund Freud. Sex Geek
Freud first mentioned this concept in his paper "On Narcissism".
Twenge, co-author with Campbell of the new book The Narcissism Epidemic, suggests there is a connection between an increase in narcissism in society and wanting baby names that are less common. All the rage in baby names: What's unusual
Her eyes seemed already to know a thousand things about male narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
Someone mentioned the word paternalistic and that is exactly what it is, combined with narcissism that other cultures are there to be gawked at rather than understood. Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing
His books are saturated with mirrors, windows, diaries, memories, travels, dreams, narcissism, and gazing.
By definition, narcissism is "excessive self-love" and stems from a mythical youth who fell in love with his own reflection. Narcissism can make politicians leaders ... and cheaters
They also showed a high level of narcissism in the things that they said.
This tender yet unsettling vision of the future explores themes of identity, sexuality and narcissism.
Congressman Foley is the poster child for what we call malignant narcissism. CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2006
They will not work effectively if we choose to follow the narcissism of small differences and become a group of fractured, squabbling nations. Times, Sunday Times
Perhaps because he resented [Federico García] Lorca's refusal to collaborate with him on a film the previous year, or more probably because he detected Lorca's homosexuality and objected to it, [Luis] Buñuel had come to loathe what he described as Lorca's 'extreme narcissism' and 'terrible aestheticism.' Great Regulars: Self-described "poet, performer and savant" Tim Key (32)
This was closer to sociopathy and narcissism than to an impulsive psychotic response to perceived injustices.
You could call it narcissism. The Sun
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose. Brene Brown
Narcissism and narcissistic identification both involve phantasies of power, omnipotence, mastery and control.
Buddhism may be diluted by sloppy New Age enthusiasms, and most non-Buddhist artists may revel in the narcissism, intellectual wool-gathering, conflict, and violence that the religion abhors.
The only thing notorious about it is how much hearsay about self-indulgence and narcissism has swirled around the film without people having seen it.
By Bukowski's own admission, he was always the hero of his stories, which are shot through with black humour, misogyny, misanthropy, narcissism, wishful thinking, and inconsolable loneliness.
Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.
Sinclair agrees that "writing and posting pictures of yourself online forces the author to tread afine line between solipsism and narcissism". Blogs on togs
WAKE UP ... your narcissism is without equal ... and, obviously, you and your campaign don't give a s*t about the party or this country. Vilsack says it's over
And if you poke around in there you might find more on the theme of writing and narcissism.
In this case, Obama wisely chose not to let facts speak for themselves (as they clearly had not done two months earlier when McCain succeeded in spinning a stunningly successful Obama tour of Europe and the Middle East into a beauty pageant allegedly bespeaking Obama's narcissism, empty celebrity, and appeal to foreigners). Drew Westen: Lessons Learned from the Election of 2008: Looking Back and Looking Forward
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The title of this series is a pun on Freud's text ‘Mourning and Melancholia,’ which examines object cathexis in libidinal development, the loss of which leads to narcissism.
She might even have admitted to extreme narcissism if it made a good line.
Only in nature is interpellation absent, and it is only when Narcissus sees his reflection in the mirror of the lake (the technic of objective realization?) that narcissism and auto-interpellation is born.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism. Sigmund Freud
Freud postulated a narcissistic stage of emotional development, or primary narcissism, which precedes any investment of libido in objects other than the self.
What ahistorical bilge and what classic narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
The components of a good hate follow include narcissism, vapidity, arrogance, money and a surplus of leisure time. Times, Sunday Times
Overt misbehavior is the ultimate in narcissism.
I do apologize in advance for this piece of self-indulgent narcissism.
Is indulging our individual truths a form of excessive narcissism?
You call it fun, I call it narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
Elsewhere, religion's understanding of truth and selfless commitment to a wider community or cause appears preferable to today's culture of narcissism and navel-gazing.
This belief and teachings (which by the way is referenced somehow to Hilter by the Family's leader), 'allows' them to wallow in narcissism and self righteousness. Poll: Only 3 in 10 have favorable opinion of Ensign
I don't want to make any more comments to feed this woman's ego and narcissism. The Sun
The work's extreme manoeuvres seem designed to seduce its dancers into displays of gymnastic narcissism.
Meanwhile, in "Young Adult," an early indicator of the protagonist's free-range narcissism is the aging blond babe's casually neglectful treatment of her pet Pomeranian. Hollywood Is Going to the Dogs
Affluenza, he says, can be recognized by key symptoms: technomania and e-mania -- obsession with technology and the internet -- rampant consumerism, megalomania, narcissism, "robotism," and "affluenza's concomitant: imperialism and national aggression. GOOD Magazine: Vermont: Most Likely To Secede?
Although about one in five were found to have personality defects such as extreme overconfidence, aloofness and narcissism, the same group also tended to score well on problem-solving.
You call it fun, I call it narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
It is a bleak picture of society, but it captures that which is terribly bleak about contemporary life in urban America-its narcissism and nihilism.
You might as well hand out coloring books and Mad Libs to keep people busy for the next 90 days as the blogosphere comes to accept that it's a venue for narcissism, distraction and self-indulgence rather than a tool for affecting national space policy. Dear Mr. Augustine - NASA Watch
This factor supports the idea that an extreme narcissism is a specific psychogenic factor here.
It is a form of narcissism, an ugly, halitotic emotional burp. Times, Sunday Times
Weingartner seems to be agonised by the fact that today's twenty-year-olds are the ‘used car generation’, voyeurs and poseurs who have nothing to express but a lack of confidence and narcissism full of envy.
This gathering together of understanding is in itself an aspect of narcissism.
Though a long poem, the book is interlarded with mixed genre elements, including a few treatises one on dung, another on literary narcissism and several essays, including little disquisitions on vipassana meditation, Whitman, C. S. Peirce, and Nancy Reagan. The Best American Poetry 2010
It goes without saying that she makes great use of narcissism; no self-respecting artist of this period could live without that particular reflecting pool.
But excessive self-love, or narcissism, could actually increase violence in schools.
Objectivism then proceeds to "elevate" the pupil to true malignant narcissism by demonizing "altruism" -- Rand's term of art for all the empathetic values -- and lionizing sadism. Marcella Mroczkowski: Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics
Ego, in this context, is defined as inertia -- an anti-evolutionary posture of narcissism and self-concern that is based upon the conviction, conscious or unconscious, that something fundamental is terribly, terribly wrong. Andrew Z. Cohen: The Path Of Evolutionary Enlightenment: From Minus One To Zero To Plus One
We already misuse "nonplussed", "penultimate" and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle - it'd be a pity to waste such a great word like "narcissism" on things so utterly pedestrian. I'm the piece of shit the world revolves around
There is, of course, a long and controversial history of viewing homosexuality as a displaced desire for the self and thus a form of narcissism.
To do so requires a width and breadth of perspective on the human condition that are at the furthest possible distance from the perspectivism and narcissism of so much contemporary historiography.
His self-delusion is so complete he regards this as a principle, instead of a symptom of his own narcissism.
Political narcissism is a bad thing, not just for you, not just for the Democratic Party, but for the U.S.A. Clinton cites Karl Rove as reason to stay in
Like most blogs, the content is erratic, syncopated by the intrusions of daily life, random interests, monomania, narcissism and booze.
The sexual rules which govern the safeguarding of human progress have accordingly been rewritten – and anyone who sounds the alarm at this repackaging of selfish and socially destructive narcissism as ‘human rights’ and ‘equality’ is vilified as a stony-hearted bigot. Yes, it's more difficult than you think, Dave
Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions.
There's plenty of narcissism triggers in his background - the highly respected, distant father, whose values he gleefully desecrates even as he treats him with an almost somber respect.
The narcissism of identity politics is spectacularly out of kilter with the enormity of the challenges the country now faces. Times, Sunday Times
But the reality is that celebrities have more personality issues around what we call the narcissism than the average person, they have more addiction than the average person and we were interested in really showing what happens to somebody like Britney Spears behind the scenes when they actually are treated. CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2008
Like most blogs, the content is erratic, syncopated by the intrusions of daily life, random interests, monomania, narcissism and booze.
The ability for a couple to marry is based on each one controlling innate egoism and narcissism.
In common parlance, narcissism is often used as a synonym for egomania or excessive self-regard," say Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young in The Mirror Effect. Celebrity narcissism: A bad reflection for kids
He went to the gym every day, driven purely by narcissism.
In that study, they found that those scoring high in narcissism tended to display the four main components of the "charismatic air": attractiveness (flashy and neat attire), competence (self-assured behavior), interpersonal warmth (charming glances) and humor (witty verbal expressions). Who Is Popular at First Sight?
The answer is a personality trait called narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
While some may see this as an instance of human narcissism defeating scientific understanding, we would do better to see it as a reason for tempering the narcissism of science.
Those who suffer from narcissism become self-absorbed or chronic show-offs.
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Erich Fromm
Argerreich's Introduction to Abnormal Psychology and The Narcissism Epidemic and placed one under Mr. Titters's outstretched paw and the other under his elbow, or elbow-like thing, leaving a narrow forelimb exposed and braced on both ends. Doggone
At the same time, the pacing is less frenzied, the attitude toward the semi-autobiographical protagonist free of narcissism.
This suggests that neuroticism / narcissism combined with an abusive and/or harassing work environment does not make one more prone to deleterious drinking behavior.
(We prefer the concept privatism to narcissism or hedonism because it doesn't seem quite as value-laden.) Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris
Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Erich Fromm
Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions.
After all, normal narcissism makes most psychiatrists feel they are doing a good job, even when they may not be.
But this blatantly sterile narcissism, especially when fanned by massive and intrusive media coverage, is psychologically damaging to the celebrities themselves.
What you can't do is write the selfie off as pure narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
He teases the country for its narcissism involving their victorious past.
But narcissism isn't just a combination of monumental self-esteem and rudeness.
He uses what in Washington is sharp language (we could give 'em lessons down here), saying that this comment was "disgraceful," that remark "tragically flawed," and this action was "unconscionable" ... and he is very circumspect about his candidacy, avoiding the redolence of narcissism that seems to cling to most presidential candidates like the odor of a wet fart. Stan Goff: PING & PONG: you are the ball
It is apparent from any survey of the criticism of confessional poetry that the mode is habitually and negatively associated with an authorial self-absorption verging on narcissism.
I was impatient with her politics and repulsed by her unevolved narcissism.
In common parlance, narcissism is often used as a synonym for egomania or excessive self-regard," say Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young in The Mirror Effect. Celebrity narcissism: A bad reflection for kids
It's seen as a funny quirk of celebrity narcissism instead of something morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times
To predict that blogs will someday become universal warrants amplification, as today's blogs are anything but universal, unless solipsism and narcissism constitute universality.
But when she harps on about her looks, it sounds like relentless narcissism.
To argue that blogs are different goes well beyond “triumphalism” — I’d call it grandiosity, or narcissism. Defying definition « BuzzMachine
The analyst's narcissism may be such that it is better to rest easy in seductive certitude rather than tolerate ambiguities, uncertainties and the discomforting state of not-knowing!
Goodman satirizes the naïveté and narcissism of that era's utopianism with enormous wit.
With or without leadership contests, the conference season brings out the narcissism and self-absorption of politicians to a degree the public can only find repellent.
It was narcissism at its peak, but there was relevance to the German designer's strict tailoring, with peaked shoulders and scalloped hems giving jackets a feminine edge.
Yet the book is a heavy volume of historic narcissism - a magnum opus of upper-class vainglory and scrupulous evasion.
In such a world, suggests Maddin, avarice, phallocentrism, corporatism and narcissism are dominating the world and deforming it utterly.
And narcissism is a seductive mental disorder.
A more modern term for hubris, for Kirk's monstrous ego, is narcissism.
Although he was not a sporting person he admits that he exercised to keep his appearance at its best and satisfy his narcissism.
He finds himself with addictions to voyeurism and narcissism, as well as a nasty coke habit.
You could call it narcissism. The Sun
They will not work effectively if we choose to follow the narcissism of small differences and become a group of fractured, squabbling nations. Times, Sunday Times
The vanity, selfishness and one-upmanship that typified governmental culture in the eighties was exemplified by the narcissism implicit in the leisure complex.
Partners exhibiting traits of control, manipulation, dishonesty and "neediness" or narcissism really do not need to be dated or married - and especially - to reproduce. April 2009
Some have suggested that Winnicott immediately realized that Khan's narcissism made him essentially unanalyzable.
Narcissism deserves its own category, she said, because like most mental ailments, narcissistic personality disorder is partially genetic and partially created by one's environment.
It's the character of Marga, her particular brand of narcissism and neurosis that makes her a perennially enjoyable performer. Erika Milvy: "Marga Gomez Is Not Getting Any Younger" Extended
This factor supports the idea that an extreme narcissism is a specific psychogenic factor here.
In the end, Ms. Granholm's argument is simply a form of the same economic narcissism that animates people who never lose the charming faith that they know best how to spend other people's money. Granholm's Perfect Bad Example
Self-esteem as portrayed by the current generation of pop psychologists is nothing less than self-worship, narcissism.
Her eyes seemed already to know a thousand things about male narcissism. Times, Sunday Times
This, like all personality-based weblogs, is about pure, unadulterated, almost innocent narcissism.
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose. Brene Brown
Humbleness is productive, narcissism is destructive. Dr T.P.Chia
This isn't narcissism, it's not the kind of being in love with myself that makes me feel like gazing into the mirror all day, or erecting monuments and writing myself drippy poetry I'll regret later.
This healthy narcissism may actually aid guilt-prone individuals in productive day-to-day interactions.
It's seen as a funny quirk of celebrity narcissism instead of something morally repugnant. Times, Sunday Times

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