How could a person who talks about himself, is as obviously self-involved as he is... To be that self-involved, it just obviates that he's sort of self-reflective.
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The line is more than a little self-involved, but it's not exactly wrong—the discovery that the characters are both astonishingly self-involved and impossible to disavow is a defining element of the show.
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"They have not evolved or become less self-involved," she said.
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Commute is by no means a narcissistic or self-involved work.
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I think it's actually a very vain, self-involved thing to do.
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The Kardashian-Jenner family is often criticized for being too self-involved.
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When you are your own business, you become way too self-involved.
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All this activism is just exhausting for self-involved assholes like myself.
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And yes, some of these voters are too precious and self-involved.
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She isn't obnoxiously self-involved or obsessed with sounding smarter than she is.
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If you're jealous of someone, you imagine that their selfies look self-involved.
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People on the trading floor viewed him as self-involved, dismissive and arrogant.
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Eddie is obnoxious, self-involved and a ghost, one that only Charlie can see.
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Probably, many always felt short-changed, but Hollywood was too self-involved to notice.
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She taught Brook to be less self-involved, and their relationship humanized Brook's character.
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Her Gloria is basically a walking emotional hazmat zone: toxic, peevish, perpetually self-involved.
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Who touches this book touches a fleshly, ambitious, anxious, self-involved, self-doubting mortal.
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"She was the least self-involved, most normal, most kind person I've ever known."
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Now I remember why I didn't keep in touch: She's gloomy and self-involved.
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"We've spent seven years with a narcissistic, self-involved president in Washington," Mr. Cruz said.
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Its self-involved characters, drug users and alcoholics, suffer from debilitating nervous disorders and depression.
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Five self-involved social-media obsessives don't make for good company in Guillaume Corbeil's play.
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Let's keep that in mind the next time someone says New Yorkers are self-involved.
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Over the course of 22 films, the MCU has become increasingly insular, complicated, and self-involved.
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Last year, Misty bestowed upon us the most overweeningly self-involved social critique of our time.
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They mock us for our so-called "addiction," calling us a self-involved, attention-starved generation.
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Sure, Will is funny, but is he funnier than the self-involved, Type A wannabee Grace?
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"Togetherness" wasn't an easy series to like at first; it seemed like a show about self-involved whiners (lightened by Mr. Zissis' and Ms. Peet's sharp comic turns), but revealed itself as an empathetic story about how circumstances can turn you into a self-involved whiner.
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That may seem self-involved, but this is a story about an app that traffics in selfies.
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In a competition too full of self-involved, preening egotists, this was the best comment of all.
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My mother was a decent parent (I'm 22), but she has always been self-involved and insensitive.
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He was famously selfish, self-involved, and uninterested in the traditions and conventions that underpin the institution.
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He's self-involved enough to hurriedly approve a heinous advertising campaign without realizing how bad it will be.
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The men are either far away, or self-involved and useless: The women have to fend for themselves.
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"Intuitive" isn't a common description for someone as self-involved as you are, Aries, but you defy expectation.
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This is Beto O'Rourke's navel-gazing, self-involved, rollout of a possible rollout of a possible presidential campaign.
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Donald Trump's questionable statements shouldn't shock us because he's older -- since he's always been a self-involved liar.
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Both Janes are self-involved, a little whiny and burdened with a goody-goody big sister (Laura Ramadei).
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We're so self-involved we don't even realize that we're ignoring the other person in the room. Right.
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They're so confident and self-involved they don't understand that there are degrees of difference, of opinion, of experience.
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Some trans people might be obnoxiously self-involved, like Boy Casey — and like virtually any other kind of person.
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Britain is governed by a self-involved clique that rewards group membership above competence and self-confidence above expertise.
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People hear the word "narcissism" and they think self-involved, big ego, using others for personal gain without remorse.
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It was without question Brady, who was portrayed as self-involved in a flurry of off-the-record intimations.
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Sadly, Price doesn't want us to hate on self-involved assholes reading a copy of The Fountainhead in between reps.
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Being a ballerina is very self-involved, and our family at City Ballet is one of the best there is.
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"It took my focus off myself, which is always good for an actor because actors are so self-involved," he says.
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And compared to what the hosts are likely spending, Stoler's complaint about springing for a babysitter feels petty and self-involved.
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Lisette Oropesa was a splendid substitute, combining absolute technical assurance with a deft actorly portrayal of a naïve, self-involved royal.
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Taking Note On Netflix's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," Tituss Burgess plays the hilarious, self-involved, sometimes cutthroat but always lovable Titus Andromedon.
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If I haven't come across as self-involved enough already, try this: I always suspect therapists get curious and google me.
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His number of quality friendships is in short supply because, by Bryant's own admission, he's too self-involved to support them.
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You don't have to slog through all the self-involved prose that you and I used to be paid to produce.
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Maybe that's very self-involved to say, but there's an expectation now to be good that I genuinely didn't feel then.
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But she worries that awareness disclaimers and privilege apologies have ferried us to a silly, self-involved realm of oppression Olympics.
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Some have even gone as far as calling her "self-involved" for carrying out the innocent joke in the first place.
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It takes its mystery seriously, even as it treats its characters as the incredibly self-involved, occasionally silly people they can be.
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The shareholder claims Elon's move to infuse his failing SolarCity with $2.6 billion of Tesla stock is outrageous, self-involved and irresponsible.
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"The Prom," a musical comedy that weaves high school lesbians and self-involved thespians into a heartwarming confection, is coming to Broadway.
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This can make for the best orgasms of your life, but you both might be too self-involved to make it something longterm.
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In the 1990s, the genre got self-involved, most notably in the meta-horror films Scream (1996) and The Blair Witch Project (1999).
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This presentation, however, omitted the public or private context that might have made the characters something more than merely self-involved substance abusers.
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Make way for a group of self-involved Broadway performers, swooping in to save the day — and get publicity — through song and dance.
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"I was so self-involved at that point, they could've been doing it in front of me and I wouldn't have noticed," he joked.
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Anyone that follows Beltway Twitter knows it's a deeply insular and self-involved world dominated by men who almost exclusively speak to each other.
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At least that statement sounds more like the Kanye we've gotten to know over the past two years—impulsive, cowardly, and deeply self-involved.
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Having found said band's disquieting harmonies and shifting arrangements arch and self-involved even when I liked them anyway, I say no big deal.
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It's a nice turn to see Emmit, who has been remarkably self-involved for the entire time we've known him, admit to some wrongdoing.
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" MacDonald likens his initial self-portraiture as somewhat "self-involved and vaguely incestuous, like catching a glimpse of yourself in the mirror during sex.
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It's difficult to imagine these self-involved sisters having a legacy that's worth archiving, which also seems to be part of their father's endowment.
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Humans are very self-involved creatures, so it's safe to assume that others are generally paying less attention to you than you think they are.
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Thornhill's book is an often self-involved account of a Westerner's transient and shallow stroll among people whose lives and histories she fails to grasp.
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Our theater critic really liked "The Lifespan of a Fact," starring Bobby Cannavale as a self-involved writer and Daniel Radcliffe as his fact-checker.
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She was so self-involved, she didn't notice that the monitor at our gate still said Tokyo and almost everyone at the gate was Japanese.
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Are you nevertheless excited by the idea of self-involved, privileged people getting sucked deeper and deeper into a life of crime, sometimes for good reasons?
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You said earlier that we need to reimagine a new happiness fantasy, one that is less self-involved and more grounded in the world around us.
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Or "Great Expectations," the puzzling account of an American woman who becomes a surrogate mother qua partner to a self-involved divorcée and her adolescent daughter.
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Soon, Dory and her self-involved friends are stumbling their way through New York City and down the convoluted rabbit hole of where Chantal might've gone.
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Analysis: Beto's adventure drips with white male privilege This is Beto O'Rourke's navel-gazing, self-involved rollout of a possible rollout of a possible presidential campaign.
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Kids this age are less self-involved than younger kids, and so they worry about the impact not just on themselves but on others around them.
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The final story, "A Fair Price," features yet another self-involved, largely clueless dolt, but this guy lacks even the minor charms of his neurotic predecessors.
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Robert Weber, whose elegant and witty cartoons about the privileged and the self-involved were staples of The New Yorker for 45 years, died on Oct.
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Delivered by a different man — and this is where my acquaintance with Hughes might get in the way — it may have seemed a little self-involved.
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If he lacks the preternatural charm Mr. Esparza lent the role, he brings comic ease and ready sympathy to a character who can seem exasperatingly self-involved.
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Even after reinventing herself as a self-involved heel alongside Dana Brooke, there was a sense that Emma couldn't quite shake the expectations of the earlier gimmick.
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If you notice that your iPhone is making you less present or more self-involved, don't buy it — or at least demand that it be designed differently.
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The entire spread is some kind of commentary on the current production and consumption of fashion content, focused through the lens of those "self-involved" street style bloggers.
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I spend hours pampering our flat-coated retriever, a self-involved creature who spends her days lounging around on the furniture and lapping out of the toilet bowl.
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" Trump, Hanna argued, is "a self-involved man who is worth billions yet is comfortable — almost gleefully — using bankruptcy laws to avoid the consequences of his own choices.
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And not in a self-important or self-involved way; that's just the effect Rectify has on those involved in it, and its tiny coterie of devoted fans.
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As the self-involved, self-lacerating womanizer in the play "Linda Vista," Ian Barford aims to offer the audience just enough reasons not to give up on him.
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Advocates of neurodiversity say that instead of trying to make everyone fit social norms — being cautious, skeptical, self-involved — society ought to broaden its notion of acceptable behavior.
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It's great stuff, the sort of promo CM Punk in his "voice of the voiceless" years might've cut, except more generous to the fans and less self-involved.
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And those are things that, of course, worry and bother me, but the real determining factor for my shift away from fast fashion has been admittedly more self-involved.
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Zachary Quinto (right) and Ashley Williams in The Jim Gaffigan Show season 2 For instance, as his best friend Dave, Adam Goldberg plays a self-involved, skirt-chasing jerk.
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Perhaps it's also because I was a self-involved young person who was fortunate enough in college not to have any traumatic encounters with members of the opposite sex.
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Then I kissed a guy I was seeing at the time, completely unaware of how my actions were affecting Stephen (only teenagers are able to be so self-involved!).
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Strange is a hyper-arrogant, self-involved jerk for roughly two-thirds of the movie, until it's time for the film's climax and he has to become a good guy.
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Its characters are self-involved but also self-aware, their dilemmas reflecting how identity, addiction, the #MeToo movement and other modern hot-button issues permeate their personal and professional lives.
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It's thin ice for any series to skate on, but even more so when a series asks its audience to invest in characters written to be annoying or self-involved.
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The daughter in that film, played by Meryl Streep, clearly resents her self-involved movie-star mother, who infantilizes but also cares fiercely for her while she is in recovery.
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As portrayed by Scott (whose father, George C. Scott, played the same role in a 1984 TV movie), he arrives onstage with a self-involved briskness that discourages entrance applause.
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The Roman furthest left in "Christ and the Adulteress" (21582–21622) is too self-involved to witness Jesus sparing a woman's life (although Jesus himself has a peculiar sight line).
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Did The Bachelor women just bring up how privileged they are... and call themselves out on how inane their self-involved bickering can seem in comparison to, you know, real problems?
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The baritone Christopher Maltman was similarly agile as Mark: he brought a vacant, self-involved air to his rapt Act II aria, in which he compares Marnie to a startled deer.
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DePaulo argues that sologamy triggers the worst stereotypes about single people—that they're self-involved loons -- despite research showing those who fly solo are generally less narcissistic than their coupled friends.
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I was so obsessed with not coming off as performative or self-involved or sharing too much that I basically only posted landscapes and photos of graffiti walls for eight years.
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Just 37 maybes and reopened wounds and every sign that hubris won the day and put the most self-involved, destructive leader the U.S. has ever known into the Oval Office.
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If, as it seems to be, the sesh is self-involved nihilism masquerading as one big funny joke, then why not soundtrack it to the brutally joyless strains of Berghain-friendly techno?
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Instead of taking it on the chin, Sam demands recognition from her two self-involved daughters, Max and Frankie (the youngest, Duke, isn't a sarcastic teenager yet, so she's off the hook).
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And despite Griffin's previous reputation as self-involved and not a team player, those experiences have allowed him to learn from his mistakes and improve himself as a person and a teammate.
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In "The Hedges," a self-involved young couple at a resort, burdened by their needy toddler, abandon him to the care of a kind but distracted 12-year-old, with disastrous results.
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To say O.J. developed an alter ego might be going too far, but it does seem like he always saw himself very differently, from a perspective that was egotistic and self-involved.
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So far, I only have the testimony of a few psychics and my close friends (who think that a lonely death is likely on account of my being such a self-involved asshole).
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Axolotl Overkill / Germany (Director and screenwriter: Helene Hegemann) — Mifti, age 16, lives in Berlin with a cast of characters including her half-siblings; their rich, self-involved father; and her junkie friend Ophelia.
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He is self-involved, unethical and unstable — a dangerous combination to have for the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful military forces, under pressure from impeachment and a re-election campaign.
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At 45, she works for a nonprofit organization that provides food to poor children, and she is about as self-conscious, self-involved and self-questioning a person as you're likely to meet.
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On Tuesday, she announced that her next record will be titled Norman Fucking Rockwell, in affectionately mocking honor of all of the self-involved male artists who've crossed her path over the years.
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More than two-thirds of the work is by North and South Americans, and most of this focuses on identity politics and autobiography, which runs the risk of falling into self-involved parochialisms.
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The plural "we" is useful, too, with its implied feedback from loved ones, for those worried that "I" might register as too self-involved — even for someone aspiring to the world's most important job.
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They are front and center in his classic "Peer Gynt," from 1876, in which a hopelessly self-involved antihero goes on a journey from Norway to North Africa that veers between realism and fantasy.
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The small, self-involved circle of people — many of whom write for a living, or work at startups, or both — who tweet about snacks and then favorite each other's jokes about the snacks, are fickle.
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Yet look beyond just Jerry, and you see that Seinfeld is full of the sorts of self-involved jerks who went on to drive many of the best TV shows of the years that followed.
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Earlier in the day, the group is working on an tense scene featuring Shawkat and Reynolds—as well as John Early and Meredith Hagner, who play Dory and Drew's self-involved friends Elliott and Portia.
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We don't meet any of Rachel's sisters until season 6, and it takes nearly 10 years for us to meet Amy, the ultra self-involved sister with a sorely missing moral compass, played by Christina Applegate.
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I think the idea that young people only use social media as a way to stay self-involved completely overlooks the real tangible ways that it helps us connect to our friends and to the world.
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This is yet another comic book movie that is so self-involved and obsessed with its character's suffering that you want to open a window, or have the protagonist watch a Marx brothers movie or something.
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Talking to other people so often, for such a long time, in such a relatively deep way, has taught me how to be a lot more reconnected with my empathy and not be so self-involved.
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A word Kim gets called a lot is shameless: only famous for being famous, for fucking on camera, for being beautiful and self-involved and self-promoting, and for refusing to apologize for any of these things.
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The things that made Friends Friends weren't the dollars and cents, but the dysfunctional, mildly offensive (Ugly Naked Guy was messed up, even in the '20043s), neurotic, self-involved, and yet entirely lovable humans at its center.
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The implication, framed subtly in the headlines and blatantly in the comments, is clear: These two young women were so self-involved and vain that they didn't notice they were inches from danger until it was too late.
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Homestuck's dual epilogues present two extremes: Either the narrative is dominated by self-involved, control-freak pedants, or it is turned over to the messy, deeply conflicted, unsavory but often beautiful, and indeed, sometimes liberatory realm of fanwork.
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"When I toured 'Beginners'" — based on his father, who came out as gay shortly after Mr. Mills's mother died in 1999 — "I came to trust that personal material isn't just boringly selfish and self-involved," Mr. Mills said.
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The goal was to prepare them to write winning college admissions essays — that delicate genre calling for a student to highlight her strengths (without sounding boastful) and tell a vivid personal story (without coming off as self-involved).
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There was the 2010 HBO therapy drama "In Treatment," in which she was Frances, a bristly, relentlessly self-involved actress — "just another in a long line of women I hope never to become," she said at the time.
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Foster calls the Narcissus the most common character, but a confusing one, because there's the recognizable look-at-me type, but also what Foster calls the woe-is-me type, who is equally self-involved, but in negative terms.
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Glimpsed serially in a 15 minute film, these responses added up to a semblance of a socially appropriate person, and skipped the endless testing questions and self-involved rhetorical loops that make him so exhausting to spend time with.
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"Mommie Dearest" was a worldwide phenomenon, and it inspired Davis's oldest daughter, B.D. Hyman (née Barbara Davis Sherry, child of Davis's marriage to William Sherry) to write her own book, portraying her mother as a mean, self-involved alcoholic.
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Resolving (again!) to become more fit is thus so irresistible because in our culture, a commitment to exercise doesn't just reflect a self-involved desire to tone your abs; it's a statement, a commitment to display your moral and civic fitness.
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Kimmy is self-involved and dispassionate; Titus (Titus Burgess) is a successful actor pretending to be straight; Lillian (Carol Kane) finds her niche as a drug lord, and Jacqueline (Jane Krakowski) finds herself unhappily married to the closeted Mikey (Mike Carlsen).
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Her self-involved, neotenous sex kittens, with child consciousnesses, after having been comforted and pied, and in the early 2010s, having faced bleak, rural dystopias, have become more like actual people and now seek comfort in heteronormative romantic and sexual relationships.
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She's insufferable, and self-involved, a trainwreck parody of a pop princess at her lowest, reminiscent of Britney Spears circa 2007 or Lindsay Lohan in her DUI years — although her woke comeback tour feels more like a nod to Katy Perry.
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"What matters is that while you self-involved fools were policing language at the Kids' Choice Awards, a madman talked his way into the White House," Maher said about our current very PC era in a recent episode of Real Time.
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It also takes some notice of the world around its self-involved foursome, although by the time the book reaches the second half of 2001, it seems entirely possible that the attack on the World Trade Center will go unnoticed.
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Given that she spends a lot of time reading, on the one hand, and musing about reproduction, on the other, her lack of engagement with other minds on this much-discussed subject makes her deliberations feel airless and mulishly self-involved.
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Their little corner of Riverside—ranch houses, pickup trucks, the Sonic ("America's Drive-in") at the corner, the Macy's and Cheesecake Factory down by 230, certainly those self-involved, blithely sinful college students, with all their partying—had no clue.
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The combination of Linton's Africa memoir, her tacky name-dropping hashtags, and her condescending and classist response to Miller paints a portrait of a self-involved and narcissistic woman with a loose relationship to the truth and very little self-awareness.
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The tell-alls portrayed Davis as a self-involved, alternately controlling and neglectful alcoholic – characterizations disputed by many Hollywood insiders, including Merrill and most vociferously by Davis, who disinherited her daughter and didn't speak to her again through to her death in 1989.
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But too excessive, too scanty, too much, or too little, they all point to the same idea: Women who care about appearance must be vain, frivolous, excessive, conceited, stupid, air-headed, self-involved, insubstantial, attention-seeking...you pick the word — there are plenty.
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Their interlocutor—who if he were female might've been called histrionic, self-involved, and volatile—wasn't really interested; he seemed to be motivated by hatred of the government and kept trying to turn the conversation to indictments of the institutions of power.
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Yeah, it's the party they like to go to, in terms of ... You've gotten them to show up and do charity, which I find to be some of the most self-involved people around, but somehow, you've managed to pull them in.
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The idea that these concepts meant to define entire systems of behavior and social change can be applied meaningfully to fleeting interactions between strangers, or between public figures and their audiences, is laughable, a self-involved misapprehension of everything central to radical thought.
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Season 1 of her series about a self-involved Londoner with a wicked sense of humor and a passive-aggressive streak was flawless —and the concluding season 2, in which her heroine falls in love with a priest (Andrew Scott), was perfect.
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Series creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg has invented a world that operates entirely on its own bizarre terms, one that's home to many self-involved individuals who are also surprisingly deep and willing to be honest about difficult issues like depression and sexual harassment in Hollywood.
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I remember I would write a song and listen to it 25, 50 times, and obsess on my feelings and what I was thinking—really self-involved in a way I don't even have the ability to be anymore now that I have two kids.
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Was Williams so obtuse, so self-involved, as to be unaware that, as Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's 1938 "September Song" had it, the days had dwindled down to a precious few for something like 90 or 100 million souls worldwide, including over 400,19523 Americans?
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Mr. Trump's thunderous and fear-laden acceptance speech Thursday night got a roaring welcome in the convention hall, but the chaos of the past week renewed broader questions about the haphazard and deeply self-involved style that assured his stunning success up to now.
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"Cocaine tends to make people go into themselves, so they can either become introverted or be very sociable but a bit dominant or self-involved," says Katy Mcleod, director of Chill Welfare, a social enterprise that runs welfare tents at festivals across the country.
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Ms. Ringwald, in long red curls, gives a satisfactory if perhaps insufficiently feisty performance as the self-involved Aurora, who disapproves huffily of her 18-year-old daughter's decision to marry a local boy, Flap Horton (Denver Milord), and predicts that the marriage is doomed.
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" Although I have always found Nin hypertrophied and boringly self-involved, my interest in her went up a bit on reading this, despite the fact that I disagree heartily with Moore's dismissal of Marilyn Monroe in the same review as "an exhibitionistic and unfocused talent.
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One of my favorite books in any genre is a memoir by a self-involved Frenchman (Emmanuel Carrère) who uses the life stories of two small-town judges to illuminate his own; if that doesn't sound like an uninviting template, I don't know what does.
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WEST DES MOINES, IOWA — Ted Cruz called Donald Trump to the mat Wednesday night, mocking his refusal to debate and offering a venue for a one-on-one showdown after slamming him as a fake conservative and comparing him to "narcissistic, self-involved" President Barack Obama.
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For, quite apart from the sins of escapist nostalgia and self-involved narcissism it has often wrought, the deep worry is that what Rieff calls "the memory industry" has also taken up the cultural space our more willingly forgetful ancestors made for forging a common future.
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Furthermore, there is something corny, boring, and dull about Orsay through the Eyes of Julian Schnabel because it is too self-involved to even play the coy (and tired) game of fake-crushing the "high art/popular culture" divide and I have an anathema for that anyway.
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In 22011, Ms. Bloom published a memoir, "Leaving the Doll's House," in which she depicted him as a misogynist and control freak, so self-involved that he refused to let her daughter, from her marriage to the actor Rod Steiger, live with them because she bored him.
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Many moms — quibbling over organic snacks and Mandarin lessons — went expecting to see an everyday mom celebrated for her heroism and were instead reminded that they should get over their self-involved sense of hardship and be grateful that nothing in their home is going seriously wrong.
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Creator Lena Dunham's script follows the horribly shallow, deeply self-involved Marnie (Allison Williams) as a chance encounter with a former boyfriend (Christopher Abbott, returning to the series after years away) sends the two on an all-night stroll around New York City, in search of answers and purpose.
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Despite being named for Jennifer Jason Leigh's wonderful Lisa, Anomalisa is ultimately a story about a self-involved man who's bored with his life, so he briefly flirts with something a little different in a desperate attempt to find a spark buried in the flat fog of his consciousness.
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In his speech at the investiture ceremony, delivered in Welsh in a bid to appease those calling for the country's independence from Britain, Charles draws a typically self-involved parallel between the Welsh people's mistreatment by the English and what he considers his own mistreatment by his family.
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The supporting cast, so generously laden with marquee talent it's almost an embarrassment of riches, includes Ruthie Ann Miles; Phillip Boykin; Robert Sean Leonard; Brooks Ashmanskas; and, as Seurat's self-involved elderly mother, a very touching Penny Fuller (whom I saw as Eve Harrington in "Applause," one of my first Broadway shows).
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If Rebecca sounds well meaning but self-involved, even myopic, that's because she is: spoiled and entitled, spending her days cooking, composing poems, nurturing her kids, oblivious to costs or consequences and the living world around her — even the difficulties of marriage and the inevitable dangers of raising a black boy in a white world.
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Yet, until the last year of her life, she chose partners who were unsuitable and unattainable in every way — most notably, Bill Gaston, a hopeless alcoholic and serial philanderer, and Blanche Oelrichs (better known by her pen name, Michael Strange), a self-involved, thrice-married society bohemian who left her first husband for John Barrymore.
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Whether you try and gloss over Yuskavage's depictions of over-sexualized, vacant, self-involved women, in order to revel in the lush paint, light touch, and sumptuous color, or whether you ignore the intellectual and formal heft of her work to decry what a seems to be self-hating misogyny, you would be missing the point.
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"Companies trying to make caricatures of the teenagers these days, saying that all we are self-involved and trend-obsessed and they hush us into submission when our message doesn't reach the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call B.S." Parkland mass shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez is calling B.S. on the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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"Companies trying to make caricatures of the teenagers these days, saying that all we are self-involved and trend-obsessed and they hush us into submission when our message doesn't reach the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call B.S." She went on to "call B.S." on politicians and the NRA, saying the event wasn't preventable.
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Chantal's disappearance (and the shrugging response it elicits from Dory's friends) causes Dory to turn Chantal's trauma into her own, turning herself into the victim instead of Chantal—a realistic reaction to expect from a sorta-narcissist who becomes more self-involved as she becomes more consumed with finding Chantal and less with the feelings of those around her.
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But as Eggers returns with Mokhtar to California, it becomes clear that these complexities do not interest him—that his interest in Yemen does not go beyond what Chinua Achebe, in his withering comment on Joseph Conrad, called the Eurocentric tendency to reduce Africans to "the role of props" for the self-involved drama of the Western mind.
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Assange and Wikileaks Depending on a reader's preconceptions, she or he will interpret Raffi Khatchadourian's article about the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, a ghostly global activist hiding out in a foreign embassy, as a portrait of either a self-involved, two-faced traitor to his own ideals or a crusading hero of the populace ("Man Without a Country," August 21st).
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For all its satirical jabs at bourgeois mores and self-involved artists (a MacArthur "genius" grant is name-checked, in passing), "Marriage Story" is suffused with humanism and forgiveness — a tone that people familiar with Baumbach's real-life split from Jennifer Jason Leigh might find more than a little self-serving, but that saves the enterprise from being insufferably maudlin.
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The narcissist is anyone and everyone — the bad boyfriend or bad girlfriend, the bad analysand ("From the perspective of Freud's emerging 'science,' if they didn't need therapy, their self-sufficiency must be a case of arrested development"), the millennial in the middle, probably no more self-involved than any other generation — which makes him a bit of a straw man.
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The Brexit vote could almost have been designed to reveal long-festering problems with the country: an elite educational system that puts too much emphasis on confidence and bluff and not enough on expertise; a political system that selects its leaders from a self-involved Oxbridge clique; a London-focused society that habitually ignores the worries of the vast mass of British people; and a Conservative Party that promotes so many pompous mediocrities.
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And us kids seem to be the only ones who notice and our parents to call BS.Companies trying to make caricatures of the teenagers these days, saying that all we are self-involved and trend-obsessed and they hush us into submission when our message doesn't reach the ears of the nation, we are prepared to call BS. Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call BS. They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence.
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