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  • Tonight, he seemed withdrawn and particularly selfabsorbed.

    A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air 2010

  • Since then it's become selfabsorbed and self-promotory - typical white blog reactions to success I guess.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Torill 2008

  • Since then it's become selfabsorbed and self-promotory - typical white blog reactions to success I guess.

    White people like to publish Torill 2008

  • They all seemed separate, selfabsorbed, on business of their own.

    A room of one's own 2006

  • Before my own selfabsorbed musings, I want to point to the blog which started them, and an interesting collection of papers and series of pictures from India: Bite Me, the weblog of Ateya Khorakiwala and the subterranean homesick alien.

    Archive 2005-06-01 Torill 2005

  • Before my own selfabsorbed musings, I want to point to the blog which started them, and an interesting collection of papers and series of pictures from India: Bite Me, the weblog of Ateya Khorakiwala and the subterranean homesick alien.

    Body, space and distance Torill 2005

  • She was lukewarm on Sir Justus, despised Sir Coreolis “He's not at all trustworthy,” she said several times, and almost oozed disdain for all of the squires . . . particularly the selfabsorbed Mace Morningstar.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • She was lukewarm on Sir Justus, despised Sir Coreolis “He's not at all trustworthy,” she said several times, and almost oozed disdain for all of the squires . . . particularly the selfabsorbed Mace Morningstar.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • She was lukewarm on Sir Justus, despised Sir Coreolis “He's not at all trustworthy,” she said several times, and almost oozed disdain for all of the squires . . . particularly the selfabsorbed Mace Morningstar.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • While Mrs. Bryson dealt with the checking-in process, I went off into a selfabsorbed little world of my own, one that involved just me and a recalcitrant zipper.

    I'm A Stranger Here Myself Bryson, Bill 1999

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