Word: egocentricism
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It has been generally supposed, and even publicly stated, that the only purpose behind the boxes which have run over my signature is a kind of aimless invective, a form of egocentric iconoclasm. Within these limits, the adjectives applied have attained the bulk of a thesaurus.
Ambitious, egocentric, leftist Lombardo Toledano had tried to make political hay for Government-sponsored presidential candidate Miguel Alemán by tossing up the ever-popular charge of "Yankee intervention." Oppositionist candidate Ezequiel Padilla, implied the labor chieftain, was a "pimp" and a "quisling" whom imperialistic U.S. companies were using...
An inescapable conclusion from these antipathetic attitudes is that thousands of voters want a spectacular leader, a "Führer," for their candidate. They desire and seek an egocentric, messianic individual, under whose banner they may exultantly follow in search of the more abundant life.
Ardent defense witnesses included the egocentric gossip columnist of the London Daily Herald, Hannen Swaffer, whose story was that he and a committee of four others had once tested Mrs. Duncan's spectral powers, tied her securely with handcuffs, sashcord and thread, watched her wriggle loose in three minutes...
¶ De Gaulle. "The occupation and disarmament of Germany will end nothing; it will only inaugurate a scramble of such egocentric 'liberators' as De Gaulle and his like."