self-concerned

He is also self-concerned, as he asks James' sons to continue to protect him.

Alan James: Building on an incident in such a way only happens when we get self-concerned.

It's a kind of self-concerned bureaucratic peer pressure we've never heard of before in Canada.

His eyes were self-concerned without intelligence, vicious without strength.

Perhaps, she counselled Mandy, it was something to do with the inward, self-concerned life of the athlete.

"Among many achievements that spring to mind, he made British cinema less insular and self-concerned.

A. I'm trying to think of the right way to put this because I don't want to offend anybody but today's students are a lot more self-concerned.

The theoretical possibility does not justify the social excommunication of a family except to those fearful and self-concerned to the point of neurosis.

Although both halves of the play are self-concerned to the point of solipsism, in each half there is, at odd moments, a wry detachment.

How much reflected an altruistic desire to dim Palin’s political future, and how much a self-concerned wish to blame an unsuccessful campaign on her?

High-strung, sensitive, proud, self-concerned, frustrated.

Harry has a chance at a relationship with a girl that he blows by being arrogant and self-concerned and finds out that his father was the same.

Robert Arcaro creates a local president who is passionately involved with his union and with his assistant, a self-concerned young woman played by Lorey Hayes.

The tilt of her head and body in this work, along with the look of submission and the downward-shaped mouth, are all indicative of an inward, self-concerned nature.

Benedict Nightingale, (Times Literary Supplement) When trying to cope with the most practical and self-concerned questions from students - "What do you do when you haven't enough money?"

Most of us are egotistical and most are self-concerned most of the time, but it’s nonetheless true that life comes to a point only in those moments when the self dissolves into some task.

Although the team members have many reasons for making the trip, some purely altruistic, some more self-concerned, learning to make do with the minimum - indeed, discovering what that minimum is, is probably one of them.

At other times it's so soberly and rather meanly self-concerned that it's far more about the awful trials of being a famous, successful, living director than about the finality of being a famous, successful, dead actor, who, otherwise, is never characterized with any substance.

Weather-beaten American flags still fly from every other minivan antenna, and the signs along Route 35 still proclaim "God Bless Middletown," but for most residents of this comfortable, self-concerned suburb, life has regained its former hectic rhythms, marked by early morning commutes, early evening intramural sports and monthly mortgage payments.