Word: egotist
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...critics, billionaire publishing baron Robert Maxwell is a capricious, blustering egotist. He is also a cunning entrepreneur who has added Macmillan to his growing U. S. stake...
...failure to select and shape its materials seriously vitiates its power to grip and instruct our consciences. Worse, there are deeply disquieting moments when Ophuls abandons the documentarian's traditionally modest on-screen role as a reporter in search of a story and presents himself instead as an egotist in search of a platform...
...habit of concentration is not a ski technique, it is a rock of Zurbriggen's character. In a hotel lobby or a team bus, when his eyes pass coolly over skiers with whom he has raced for ten years, it can be taken for the self-absorption of an egotist. So can remarks like his joking explanation to U.S. Ski Broadcaster Greg Lewis that "the name Pirmin means 'success.' " This sort of clunker is probably nothing more than the slight awkwardness of a 25-year-old athlete who is pursued by middle-aged foreigners all intent on asking...
...supposed to choose emotion over responsibility. But that was when there were suitable romantic heroes. Try as she might, Anna cannot convey the magic and charm she perceives in Leo. To the nonsmitten observer, he seems to be little more than a foul-mouthed idler and sponge, an unmitigated egotist who is capable of remarking, when Anna tells him that their lovemaking has resulted in pregnancy, "I'm just not anxious to have any kid. There's a way in which I see it as a form of self-indulgence, really...
...looking, to write in a way that could stir emotions and reach a mass audience. Tom believes that his happiness and security with his new wife will shield him from his father's belittling ways. But in the course of an awkward, misbegotten summer holiday, the captivating old egotist outrides his son on horseback, humiliates him with the neighbors at the dinner table, even beguiles the young wife into joining excursions her husband will not. In his 40th year, Tom finds his father as big and awe inspiring as he did throughout childhood, when he waited in vain...