Word: egoism
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...caught in a web of nuance, there are. still revelations. A woman determinedly denies her love to her stepchild with the noble but misguided intent of preserving the child's love for his real mother; she ends by alienating the child from both. Enemies, a study of the egoism of old age, suggests that the old relish nothing so much as the death of fellow oldsters...
...level?", are difficult to answer in the negative except by flat-earth men and extreme skeptics. Comes at last the big moment when the well-quizzed reader reaches the pages containing his analysis ("Yourself as you really are") and settles down to a tasty feast of ham-and-egoism. "You are a fraud-a clever, charming, amusing fraud"; "You may be regarded ... as highly intelligent, yet your intelligence is curiously limited, sterile, and stunted"; "In many respects you are not a bad woman"; "You are a bit like a character out of a Chekhov play...
...seen only dimly in the book, greatly enriches the plot. But more important, the film strips the story of the irritating elements of the book: Radiguet's smug introspection and pride of exploit. Shifted into the character of the schoolboy, rather then coloring the whole account, the immaturity and egoism of the young lover appear in proper perspective...
...Churchill (1921): "Unquestionably he has real genius; but he lacks staying-power, and the egoism of his utterance would be appalling if he were not so obviously just a grown-up child...
...bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says. But an internal hunger (Hecht calls it "creative egoism") kept gnawing at him. He had a look at himself in A Guide for the Bedevilled, a handbook of Hechtian philosophy written...