How to Use egotism in a Sentence

egotism

noun
  • In his egotism he thought everyone was coming just to see him.
  • His egotism and myopia further blur our view of the larger puzzle.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egotism.
    — Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The adjective has been paired with everything from egotism to irony to fascism.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Over the years, his conceit and egotism would cause a string of problems in his personal and professional life.
    — Jonathan Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
  • First of all, there's his monumental egotism and tactlessness.
    — SI.com, 10 May 2018
  • To its portrait of the perils of complacency, this final scene thus adds a portrait of the egotism of survival.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes.
    — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 19 Aug. 2017
  • The vibe is one of camp send-up of Hollywood narcissism, but irony and egotism are blended like a fine Bordeaux.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Brad’s insufferable post-yuppie egotism is indulged rather than critiqued.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
  • As in some of his memorable film roles, De Niro confused small-minded egotism with principle.
    — Armond White, National Review, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Alexandra Cunningham does play with the levels of egotism and narcissism.
    — Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 17 June 2020
  • But Kouchner doesn’t demand we be revolted by her mother’s egotism.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2022
  • Broder had not a trace of the disabling egotism, ruthless ambition or partisan zealotry that afflict media stars today.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020
  • As with many Shakespearean characters, Moses’s arc is a fall from idealism to egotism.
    — Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Too much emphasis on the self can lead to obnoxious egotism, or desperate loneliness or alienation and paranoia.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2019
  • These were Iowans, after all, staid and true, embarrassed by egotism, but eventually the guys in overalls seemed puzzled, then most of the rest.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Her stubbornness and egotism helped kick-start and prolong the massive prodemocracy protests of 2019.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 8 May 2022
  • The ’80s have long been regarded as a period of unabashed, and at times irredeemable, egotism and excess.
    — Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Laurel wonders quietly about the glee with which Daphne skewers the language-fallible and is struck by her sister’s egotism.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Ford v Ferrari takes the straightforward ethos of car racing—where the winner is whoever is the fastest—and lays bare the egotism and greed required for such a triumph.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The compassion in this new cut doesn’t undercut the many scenes of bad behavior, rock-star excess, self-defeating egotism, and descent into junkiedom.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Much of motherhood literature can radiate a sort of wounded egotism, as if the greatest crime that society might commit against a woman were to think ill of her.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Every instrument sounds individually miked, and the balances done in the editing room meant to underscore a sense of massive egotism.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Paradoxically, her egotism can transcend self-obsession to make her work an exploration of female experience tout court, and that, too, is a hope.
    — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 9 Nov. 2022
  • Seeger’s concept of labor renounced the religious idea of good works and Christlike discipleship; it was based in egotism and calls for revolution.
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 Apr. 2023
  • From stage to screen to stream, the vanity, narcissism, and general egotism of actors have always been a reliable source of amusement, especially in the hands of the right satirists.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2018
  • Larry’s relationship with women on the show is often contentious, but most characters prefer to ignore and escape his relentless egotism.
    — Peter Allen Clark, Time, 17 Jan. 2020
  • One surprise is the extent to which Biden — often seen as unwilling to apologize or admit his shortcomings — cops to his hotheadedness and even egotism.
    — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2020

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