How to Use narcissism in a Sentence

narcissism

noun
  • The streak of narcissism in Dr. Stockmann limits the reach of his brilliance.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • But the older parents are too lost in their narcissism to help their kids.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Nothing in this era of award-show narcissism can match its shock.
    Armond White, National Review, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Ryan Broussard) sticks, and doesn’t drown in his own narcissism.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 June 2022
  • Then again, maybe narcissism and living for half a millennia simply amount to the same thing, and that’s the point of the flashback.
    Devon Maloney, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2021
  • But the sly pleasure of Sick of Myself is that Signe’s narcissism differs from the rest of ours more in degree than kind.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 May 2022
  • One of the worst types of peers to have the displeasure of working with are those who exhibit signs of narcissism.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Now that he is gone, the stubborn style, the acid wit, even the spells of narcissism, appear to have been a coping mechanism.
    Martin Amis, Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • Even old allies on the right could no longer ignore the spectacle of his narcissism and self-dealing.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • This catholic priest is a social fighter, but there is a certain degree of narcissism in his goal.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The vibe is one of camp send-up of Hollywood narcissism, but irony and egotism are blended like a fine Bordeaux.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Research rooted in brand narcissism sounds like a needy date.
    Rebecca Brooks, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Goldsberry makes narcissism fun as the biggest diva of the four.
    Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2022
  • So a normal – there are two stages in life where narcissism is expected.
    CBS News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Frankfurter was ambitious to a fault with strains of narcissism.
    John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The show is light on plot and more a mishmash of warring desires and character studies in narcissism.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Piff brings subjects into his lab and asks them to fill out a narcissism questionnaire.
    New York Times, 1 June 2021
  • As much a satire of fame and PR narcissism as an earnest ode to the rehab process, the dark comedy turned heads at the Series Mania pitch on the strength of its stark black and white visuals.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • But the exhortation to taste without eating is a chef’s form of narcissism.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Narcissist, gaslighting, love bombing:A guide to all the buzzwords around narcissism And more on the workplace:Is your boss gaslighting you?
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • In the business world, meanwhile, narcissism and greed define most leaders.
    Elizabeth MacBride, Forbes, 4 June 2022
  • Each person has a bit of normal narcissism within them.
    Fortune Well, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The character goes right to the brink of narcissism, but also is massively likable.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 16 June 2022
  • What was once seen, on screens and in many the mind’s eye, as the brazen self-branding and narcissism of a reality TV star looks more like simple mendacity.
    New York Times, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Throughout the novel, worship is at worst a form of social control and at best an exercise in narcissism.
    Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
  • Consider the dismantlement of the mental-health system in the 70s, the cult of narcissism and the retreat of religious values.
    WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • Is there any way around the allure of spiritual narcissism?
    Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Trim away the artifice of their smug posturing and they’re predictably stuffed with a medley of ignorance, hypocrisy and narcissism.
    Naveen Kumar, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In joining the full-time narcissism economy, Santos will merely be doing what so many politicians want to but haven’t yet.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 7 Dec. 2023
  • But Pratt really wants to talk again about the plague of narcissism — the error of believing that other people should live their lives according to your views.
    Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023

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