Word: egoistical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sense devoted. She was a cipher who only occasionally complicated his amorous arithmetic. Jo's steady mistress was Alice, who used to write poetry before he made her happy, and still did when he treated her, as he was fond of doing, like dirt. Jo was an introspective egoist and not much fun for those around him. When he discovered Tillie, a retired dancer still aching from her last affair, he welcomed her as a wanted complication. Then, against his will (he had no judgment) he found himself taking her seriously. Incapable of fidelity at his best, he went...
...very little dramatic precedent, but the result did not particularly suffer from this. Mr. Leiber in the part of the unscrupulous and ambitious Duke of Gloster gives a very cold interpretation. There is no ranting passion and violent action, but merely the bloodless, calculating sneer of the subtle egoist, all of which is as it should...
STENDHAL; The Life of an Egoist-Rudolf Kayser-Henry Holt...
Meteor. The eyeballs of Alfred Lunt appear to contract with mad fixity of vision as he seethes through the part of Raphael Lord, adventurer and egoist extraordinary. Having hobnobbed with Central American banditti and other peculiar and remote persons, Lord appears at a New England college, drawn by the writings of one of its dead professors, but leaves almost immediately, enraged with the pedantic stagnation of the place and bearing away with him the vivid daughter (Lynn Fontanne) of the great teacher. Having learned of the weak heart of her other suitor, a mighty footballer, Raphael has spurred the athlete...