The utter selfishness and egotism of this is astounding. pic.twitter.
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Mr Popham writes of the Nobel prizewinner's "ravenous egotism" and "queenliness".
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The battle between Boseman and Reddick involves more than mere egotism.
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I struggled with feelings of disdain at Lina's behavior, at Sloane's egotism.
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He uses racism because that's the pure distillate of German romantic egotism.
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President Trump, however, has never been anything but straightforward about his egotism.
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But for that very reason, the character's egotism has seldom seemed so daunting.
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Rigor and self-righteousness often go in tandem, as do idealism and egotism.
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Sean Illing How do you distinguish confidence or a healthy self-assurance from egotism?
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In some ways, it's an exercise in egotism that feels like it always pays off.
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And like the kunstkammer owners, they could show off a bit without critiques of egotism.
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"Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can," he once said.
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Egotism, hubris and a penchant for violence inevitably sow the conditions for the demagogue's own demise.
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But in the wake of that egotism are a lot of ruined relationships and abandoned projects.
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"Now is not the time for messing about or egotism," the paper wrote in an editorial.
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It is supreme egotism to suppose that friendship entitles us to rail on our friends' partners.
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At the same time, he shows how this work is marbled with adolescent competitiveness and egotism.
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Is there something to be gained from dipping into the Don's marketing campaign of kleptocratic egotism?
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But the toning down of his character's signature egotism manages to make the book all the duller.
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With a dark egotism, she felt certain that she and the baby would be the raffle winners.
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Mona Charen: Trump has made a career out of egotism, while conservatism implies a certain modesty about government.
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The damage inflicted by President Trump's naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate.
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Psychopathy is a disorder characterized by antisocial actions, excessive risk taking, egotism and a lack of empathy and remorse.
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" In one of McCain's final public statements, he called out Trump's "naïveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats.
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So I continue to dwell, for a little while, in the coherence of Catherine Tramell's and Bridget Gregory's egotism.
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This is a man whose egotism makes it impossible to manage the painful self-reflection necessary for an actual apology.
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For the sublime is punctured by egotism, by the rapt, hard, small beak of my self demanding to be me.
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And I go through these different moods of self-loathing and egotism, but having friends and family help ground you.
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Glenda Jackson, now playing Lear on Broadway at the age of eighty-three, captures the indomitable egotism of the aged.
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From there, the AI parsed out tweets, Facebook posts, YouTube or Daily Motion comments that had expressed anger, envy or egotism.
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But despite not playing too often, he had a story that would, in standard situations, garner a fair amount of egotism.
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It's clear that Wong is right about Lee's egotism being a limitation, but the question is whether Lee will get it.
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They scale new pinnacles of egotism in a profession (politics) and pursuit (the presidency) that's already a veritable mountain range of it.
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For centuries, our understanding of animal intelligence has been obscured in just this kind of cloud of false assumptions and human egotism.
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He accused America of egotism and spoke with contempt of the Atlantic Charter, citing Poland and Greece as proofs of its failure.
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Aldous Huxley, on the other hand, warned of an onslaught of news, real or fabricated, that reduced its consumers to passivity and egotism.
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And, of course, he's the embodiment of any person whose egotism rises to the degree of enacting violence, be it physical or otherwise.
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But some of Varoufakis's ideological allies think his celebrity has led him to fall victim to exactly the kind of egotism he decries.
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He is charismatic, combining a searching intelligence with a reckless egotism and Mr Ivenko, who looks rather like his subject, captures this well.
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To be a diva is to be a spoiled bitch; to have one's talent come second to one's egotism and flair for drama.
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She made appeals for tolerance and solidarity, saying "nationalism and egotism should no longer have a place in Europe" to a sustained applause.
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" He continued that, "the reason why some people are used to arrogantly adopting double standards is due to Western egotism and white supremacy.
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The benevolent tugs between his chill philosophizing and Callahan's indulgent egotism have a relaxed, buddy-movie appeal; he's the tonic in Callahan's gin.
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"The damage inflicted by President Trump's naïveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate," he said in a statement.
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Using various historical figures as case studies, Holiday illustrates the perils of egotism and explains how un-self-awareness is our greatest impediment.
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Bad company, dissolute habits, egotism, novel reading ... the list of reasons "lunatics" were admitted to an asylum in West Virginia seems all-encompassing.
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Between a media object that rudely imposes its reality and one that imposes the egotism of the artist, intermittence provides a third way.
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"Unfortunately, what you modeled for them today was egotism, arrogance and poor sportsmanship," she wrote, though there was a sustained backlash against her letter.
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Eventually you do, and the talented Ehrenreich wins you over with his execution, capturing Han's spirit, his sarcasm, egotism and charm with apparent ease.
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Hillary Clinton portrayed Donald Trump as an existential threat to American democracy in a speech in Illinois, and mocked him for egotism and ignorance.
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And if you are not actively voting against him, you are abetting his attempt to hijack American greatness and sink it with his egotism.
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You can't pick up a play from Sophocles or Seneca or the poetry of Palmer or survey Buddhist thought without confronting warnings against egotism.
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Twitter is a daily toxic nightmare of reflexive egotism and groupthink that will prompt you to question your priorities, not to mention your sanity.
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Haywood's move for officially changing the name of the rule might be misinterpreted as the egotism of a former player who wants to remain relevant.
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It's a bluesy shuffle about temple-building and egotism; it's also a song that worships women as the true nation-builders and pillars of community.
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Some will criticise Mourinho for his egotism, some for his pragmatism and some for his caustic attitude, but nobody can deny his legacy of relentless success.
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The damage inflicted by President Trump's naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate ... The summit in Helsinki was a tragic mistake.
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Thomson shout-sings these questions with a pitch-perfect balance of sincere vulnerability and tongue-in-cheek egotism, backed by his band's blend of post-hardcore.
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As I recall, he was being referred to as the "Rodin of Japan," and he was determined to stave off the egotism that often accompanies fame.
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Mr. Beatty's Hughes has his moments of monstrous egotism, but conveys a sly self-awareness even when Hughes's battiest behavior leaves those around him visibly cringing.
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He is one of the foremost critics of America's egotism and unsustainable way of life, expressing his critiques in beautifully and sharply rendered paintings and drawings.
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While Shevchuk's voice drew people in, his lyrics provided plenty to chew on, as he openly challenged the rampant egotism of other men in the punk scene.
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But overall, the findings help extend our understanding of our self-serving biases, showing our egotism and self-confidence can sometimes spill-over to our loved ones.
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I had not seen it before and was taken aback, as much by the egotism of the gesture as by its tacit acknowledgment of the death threat.
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We are all constantly grappling with some greater shadow in our lives, and to highlight our pain above others around us can feel like an act of egotism.
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The comparison — though superficial — keeps working because economic inequality keeps growing, and most Americans associate the Gilded Age first and foremost with excesses and egotism of great wealth.
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Like Trump, he represents anachronistic egotism, which has no place in a nation that must continually evolve to live up to the prideful ideals it flaunts to others.
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" The Arizona Republican said in a statement after the news conference: "The damage inflicted by President Trump's naiveté, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate.
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He never let himself become either a poster child or a spokesperson for any political cause or protest, I suspect because he regards it as a form of egotism.
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China's ambassador to Canada, Lu Shaye, also accused his host government of "Western egotism and white supremacy" in an op-ed about the detentions of Meng, Spavor and Kovrig.
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Sean Illing Do you think egotism is an unavoidable byproduct of living in a status-driven society in which who you are is defined largely by what you have?
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The real Ulrike (and there was a real Ulrike, referred to briefly and movingly in the final chapter) gets a little lost in this portrait of a writer's egotism.
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Such a stance has become almost extinct today, when unabashed self-promotion and egotism reign supreme, as exemplified in politics by the rise of the pathetic figure of Donald Trump.
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In the 90-minute piece, directed by Isaac Butler, Mr. Daisey places Donald J. Trump's political rise in the context of American racism, reality television, political egotism and working-class fears.
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Churchill had a love of alcohol, was possibly a depressive, had some huge failures -- particularly during WWII, and was certainly a man of "remarkable egotism," as historian Stuart Ball put it.
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But the anger-tinged egotism also totally changed the narrative from one of Musk just trying to help, to one of Musk trying to take credit in the midst of a crisis.
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Like any intelligent director who puts his cast before his egotism, Maxwell knows that an audience wants to see faces—the myths and truths that have gone into making them interesting stars.
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It's not hard to see why: Great wealth attracts people eager to tell an extremely rich man (or woman, but political egotism is mainly a male thing) what he wants to hear.
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Baroque arrogance, of the kind we have been witnessing recently, is easier to take than an egotism attached to earnestness, because we can always imagine that the baroque variety is just an act.
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Some veteran analysts who have spent their careers studying foreign dictators and autocrats have said they are troubled by Trump's style, saying his negativity, egotism and appeals to nationalism are hallmarks of autocratic regimes.
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The fifth season of "Arrested Development" doesn't arrive until next year, but until then, you can get your fix of frozen bananas and Bluth family egotism by streaming reruns of the show on Netflix.
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Only an artist's egotism, his certainty that he has something new to offer that the world should not be without, gives him the fruitfully skewed perspective on literature required to see it as deficient.
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This iteration of Beyoncé's fame is what Gaga seemed to be joking about at the start of her career — this traffic-stopping collision of egotism, bravado and pure power, of commanding attention and getting it.
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From the humble ideals of Busby and Shankly, to the bombastic egotism of Brian Clough, to the left-wing multimillionaire that was Ferguson, the socialist principles changed to match the landscape of the beautiful game.
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In an article in the Ottawa-based Hill Times newspaper on Wednesday, Ambassador Lu Shaye said Canada's demands for the release of the two men reflected "double standards" born of "Western egotism and white supremacy".
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Or better yet, it's the same cry of cognitive dissonance I've heard from every corner of the political commentariat: liberal, middle-aged men wallowing in the same egotism of self-pity that drives Trump's presidency.
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After all, Coleridge believed that it was a ruse to cover up one's own egotism: just think of the US president's critics who point out that Donald Trump often refers to himself in the third person.
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In Chaplin's case, there will always be plenty to unearth, such was the monstrous majesty of his egotism; Buster Keaton grows ever more unfathomable; but "Stan & Ollie" delves in search of hidden wellsprings that aren't there.
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For example, Bobby Fischer's chess prowess might not have been impressive enough for adults to overlook his breathtaking egotism — but for the launching of Sputnik and America's anxiety about creeping Soviet domination in education and science.
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Kim also offers a word of warning against "toxic" egotism and encouraged "standing up for what's right," which he recounted in a war story in Iraq that he said was among the hardest lessons he ever learned.
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Social media and the urge for brazen popularity may be making a lot of art silly, but Memories of Travel travels the extra mile inward — towards more radical responses to pop-culture and the void of selfie egotism.
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They played a big part in the current very dangerous erosion of American democracy and the rise of far-right extremism and got away with it for a while, blinded by their own giant egotism and financial success.
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Terje is portrayed with more ambivalence, and Mr. Mays (who won his Tony for the one-man tour de force "I Am My Own Wife") expertly locates both the fatuous egotism and the heroic intelligence in his character.
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In an election year, it has been impossible to witness the mixture of total incompetence, devouring egotism and eerie inhumanity with which President Trump has responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and not fear some form of corona-coup.
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Many religion writers, including ThinkProgress's Jack Jenkins, have written extensively about Trump's creation of a new kind of civic religion, blending his natural egotism with religious rhetoric that both fires up his base and legitimizes the extremity of his actions.
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BEIJING — China's ambassador to Canada has said that "Western egotism and white supremacy" were behind calls for Beijing to release two detained Canadians, further straining relations between the countries after the arrest in Canada last month of a Chinese technology executive.
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She stopped giving interviews in the 20153s and told Mr. Flynt that she typically vomited before speaking engagements — so much so that she came up with a little pep talk, "a mantra of great egotism," to help alleviate the pressure.
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Ironic self-mockery, muted egotism, a knowledge of one's own absurdity that doesn't diminish the importance of one's witness, a determinedly anti-heroic stance that remains clearly ethical—all these effects and sounds of the essayist are first heard here.
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Throughout the chase, the fugitive stops periodically to read and make notes on Matt's new gospel, "The Book of Kevin," which — in a further example of Kevin Sr.'s colossal egotism — is irritating because it's about the son, not the father.
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Sometimes Offill's narrators seem vulnerable to the delusion that their dysfunction sets them apart — that they are breaking down against the backdrop of others' composure, which can come across as self-deprecation but is actually its own form of egotism.
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Anne Frank aside—though it's really hard to put that god-awful decision aside—they also featured Ayn Rand, arguably the conservative poster child who advocates for egotism and greed in a capitalist world that exploits the impoverished and weak.
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Donald Trump as a "good man" is clearly going to become a theme in this campaign as the Trump team seems to be realizing that Trump's brash personality and egotism is still a turnoff to a significant number of still-persuadable voters in this election.
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We are treated to the diplomatic politesse of Dior, the Proustian melancholy of Yves Saint Laurent, the architecturally driven perspective of Balmain, the operatic egotism of Poiret and the famous reserve of Balenciaga, the designer many of the subjects in this book cite as the master.
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"Using iconic movie monsters (who were often the by-products of corporate greed and human egotism manipulating nature to spawn our own annihilation) [we] present the consequences of pollution, climate change, genetic engineering, for profit destruction of animal habitats, and species' extinctions," Laura Dumm tells The Creators Project.
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Dazzling though Mr. Frayn's engineering is, "Noises Off" would be a mere dissertation in clever dramaturgical mechanics, were it not for the expertly drawn characters, here embodied by a first-rate cast well aware of the addictions, indulgences, pretensions and general egotism of actors (some actors!) that Mr.
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There lies the incredible selfishness—really, the astounding humanocentric egotism—inherent in Breatharianism: the idea that a small group of enlightened people can succeed where the rest of the animal kingdom cannot, that Breatharian-trained humans are somehow better than the natural world, from whose cosmic energy they desire to feed.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Perhaps the egotism that claims life-as-art has always existed, but until provocateur Ben Vautier (best known by his first name) and others in the 593th century made a hard point of this theoretical position, it had endured mainly as a subject of interest for lifestyle, opera, and architectural theorists.
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I think the egotism that drives a lot of Wall Street guys to do the high-risk, high-reward sort of investing and to really gamble is the same high self-esteem, shall we say, that propels someone to think you can really get away with faking your death and avoiding consequences and outsmarting law enforcement.
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And while the eventual couplings are never in doubt, the preordained nature of the piece allows for ample comedy at the expense of that evergreen topic, class — the subterfuge ramped up by the director, Paul Miller, so that unsuspecting playgoers become occasional confidants of a rambunctious ensemble of actors who might be more appealing if they tempered an exuberance bordering in some cases on egotism.
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Former Four Horseman Ole Anderson's Inside Out: How Corporate America Destroyed Professional Wrestling is a fine example of this sort of thing, with Anderson's evident egotism set alongside a brutal critique of Ric Flair for always wrestling the same match (Bret Hart's Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling echoes that, calling Flair a "routine man" who never deviated from his handful of moves and spots).
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It is positively visionary, therefore, that President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE chose as his chief negotiator for international relations, whom he has just dispatched to the Middle East to begin the process of peace, a quiet and serious man, distinguished for humility rather than egotism and gentility rather than tempestuousness.
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Sen. John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMcCain's family, McCain Institute to promote #ActsOfCivility in marking first anniversary of senator's death Arizona poll shows Kelly overtaking McSally 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE (R-Ariz.) called the U.S.-Russia summit in Helsinki "a tragic mistake" and faulted President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE for "naiveté" and "egotism" in meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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One can't help but think that in some way this surprise reflects the appalled senility of God herself, or himself, though maybe it's the weirdly paired egotism and humility of artists that leads them over and over again to this creational cliché: that we are God's dream, God's characters; that literary fiction is God's compulsion handed down to us, an echo, a diminishment, but something we are made to do in imitation, perhaps even in honor, of that original creation, and made to do in understanding of what flimsy vapors we all are — though also how heartbreaking and amusing.
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