NOUN
- literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption
How To Use navel-gazing In A Sentence
- So now I can stop navel-gazing and get back to current events.
- ‘That is one area where there is danger of introspection and navel-gazing,’ she says.
- Wow, managing to wedge a piece of Einstein's special theory of relativity into some particularly indulgent navel-gazing.
- Instead the focus would shift, away from institutional navel-gazing - which turns off voters in their millions - and towards tangible outcomes.
- 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.
- The whole business of writing about cyber-culture seems vain and navel-gazing to me.
- But why on earth is such theological navel-gazing necessary to determine the future of two people whose devotion for each other has been tested time and time again?
- I'm perfectly aware that even at the best of times, the above post would seem excessively introverted, self-pitying and navel-gazing.
- Being now retired and never having been in the police force and only transiently in the civil service — although I must say the large corporate I worked for for 35 years did try its very best to adhere to the official Home Office-approved diversity navel-gazing standards — I feel rather left out of this act of collective absolution. Thanks For Telling Me What I Think « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
- The template for this book's monologues is the on-screen navel-gazing of TV contestants, and it requires of its reader a similar concern for triviality.