Egotism

Where do we draw the line between positive associations with oneself, like confidence or and toxic egotism?

At this stage, egotism is repressed, sensuality is important and what goes in here is what she called “polymorphous perversity”.

It is the guarantee that, no matter how much the sport might try our patience with its egotism and self-reverence and greed, we keep coming back.

These kinds of shallow gaslighting tactics come from a bad place of egotism and resentment, rather than any sincere and genuine attempt to help people.

He was blind to the faults that put others off — her colossal egotism and her temper tantrums when she did not get her own way.

According to literary historian Sacvan Bercovitch: Bercovitch 1972, p. 106 Few puritans more loudly decried the bosom serpent of egotism than did Cotton Mather; none more clearly exemplified it.

His own egotism protects him from feeling passion for anyone else.

Quoted in Fisher, p. 272 The usual argument is that Hancock’s mixture of egotism and self-doubt led to a spiral of self-destructiveness.

The Economist described Saddam as "one of the last of the 20th century's great dictators, but not the least in terms of egotism, or cruelty, or morbid will to power".

The theme of much of his work is egotism and its supernatural punishment; his weird fiction is generally macabre in subject matter, gloatingly preoccupied with images of death, decay and abnormality.

This submissive and effeminate Margo is contrasted with the theatricality, combativeness, and egotism of the earlier career woman Margo, and the film's two homosexual characters.

To subdue any egotism which would violate the humility required by his religious position, he decided never to publish his poems.

Using the Guru's teaching remembrance of nām (the divine Word or the Name of the Lord) citation leads to the end of egotism.