self-infatuation

The petulance and self-infatuation of that little book put me in mind of a naughty child; I'm unsure if Kung needs an excommunication or a spanking.

2009 Lenten Read-A-Thon Day 11 2009

It might seem petty for journalists to become energized only when they are pummeled, but that is an inseparable part of the 24-7 news cycle -- the media's self-infatuation.

A fateful day in Egypt Jennifer Rubin 2011

The petulance and self-infatuation of that little book put me in mind of a naughty child; I'm unsure if Kung needs an excommunication or a spanking.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

The lingering beer and grass have soaked his blood in self-infatuation.

GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

The lingering beer and grass have soaked his blood in self-infatuation.

GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

The lingering beer and grass have soaked his blood in self-infatuation.

GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010

But bloggers are too rarely regarded as writers – so-called mommy-bloggers especially – and too often accused of self-infatuation.

Narcissus and Me | Her Bad Mother 2007

Frankly, the Times also betrays an institutional self-infatuation that suits the paper very poorly for ... well, just about anyone with self-respect.

Craig Stoltz: NY Times to Readers: Drop Dead 2008

The outcome hangs largely on whether the two garrulous baby boomers who occupy the Oval Office and the speaker's chair can overcome their self-infatuation -- and, in effect, grow up.

Missing The Moment 2008

It's an aesthetic which is I think lurking at the heart of the current self-infatuation of Americanist culture, under the rhetoric of anti-intellectual, martial patriotism.

Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005