How to Use egoism in a Sentence

egoism

noun
  • This is different from egoism and self-centeredness.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The pain, the social climbing, the lack of ethics, and the post-war, orgiastic egoism are what the work is really about.
    — Christian Lewis, Variety, 26 Apr. 2024
  • But that wild egoism that’s needed to put down 40-hour training weeks and shut off everything else, that’s fading.
    — Lori Nickel, Journal Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Between devil-may-care thoughtlessness and flair-first egoism is the bull's-eye of barmanship.
    — Esquire Editors, Esquire, 25 May 2017
  • Huxley feared those who would give us so much information that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
    — Brooke Gladstone, Slate Magazine, 18 May 2017
  • Once the powerful have embraced childish sparring and petty egoism, though, how can anyone escape it?
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
  • Affinities of blood, however, can encourage a sort of collective egoism.
    — Samuel Goldman, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Altruism, not egoism, is the driving force behind Rogers' desire to become enhanced.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2011
  • Fight Club’s leering portrayal of male anger and egoism has become a militant-macho touchstone.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Nearly forty years after the epochal music festival, the name Woodstock still evokes the heady idealism and drop-out egoism of a more hopeful era.
    — Bryan Miller, Town & Country, 8 Sep. 2013
  • Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information, Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Aug. 2024
  • His egoism, laziness, arrogance, and above all his habitual dishonesty are crippling.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Remaining king of the mountain is a daily battle with self-satisfaction, egoism and complacency.
    — Brian H. Robb, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • The word altruism was coined around 1830 by French philosopher August Comte, as the opposite of egoism.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
  • But these stem from posturing and egoism, not from principles—as proved by Cohen’s elevation of himself into such a passive, blameless creature.
    — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Pauli conveys the brilliant inventor’s egoism and emotional stuntedness, qualities that at one point provoke a climactic showdown with Ada.
    — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Some of this incoherence points to the plight of female ambition, its endless negotiations between egoism and self-effacement, toughness and delicacy.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • Liberals should not promote national egoism but support policies that will help make their fellow citizens feel connected and committed to a worthy and meaningful community.
    — Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • The novel was written during the heyday of rational egoism, when certain utopian thinkers believed that human behavior could be reduced to a series of logical rules so as to maximize well-being and create the ideal society.
    — Meghan O'Gieblyn, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The national egoism that had inflicted so much suffering before 1945 would be suppressed on a new vision in which international politics would come to look more and more like domestic politics.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 May 2017
  • The Academy’s apology is merely self-satisfying political egoism.
    — Armond White, National Review, 19 Aug. 2022
  • McGuane also reminded me that Hemingway was, to put it politely, a complicated personality, a domineering figure prone to brawling, affairs, and cask-strength egoism.
    — Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Rejecting this calculating egoism, but unable to accept traditional accounts of innate ethical knowledge, Shaftesbury attributed human kindness and sociability to sentiment.
    — Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021

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