| He inwardly cursed himself for sounding like an egotistical butler in a penguin suit. |
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| His ultra-macho, cold-hearted, egotistical personality thoroughly disgusted me. |
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| In the West, paradoxically, zoning laws were the last line of defence against the egotistical urges of private landowners. |
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| He agreed, but to save time and also, no doubt, for egotistical reasons, he inseminated all the women with his own sperm. |
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| Even the nicest people involved in bands often start to gravitate away or get very egotistical when their profile increases. |
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| I glowered at him and felt an impulsive urge to hit him over his egotistical head with a pillow. |
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| Huxley surmised that life lived as the satisfaction of one desire after another would result in shallow and egotistical people. |
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| That said, it can be frustrating working with conceited, egotistical players. |
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| You cannot have two mega-personalities in a relationship where both are needy, egotistical, insecure and dependent on public approbation. |
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| He was a verbose, tobacco-chewing, rib jabber, and an honest and egotistical man. |
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| Ridsdale, I guess, was your characteristic smooth-talking, egotistical chairman. |
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| This statement is either deceitful or the egotistical rambling of a megalomaniac. |
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| What if everything that I learnt from my guides was just the delusions of a misguided egotistical fool? |
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| How could she be attracted to such a rude, egotistical, high-handed, bossy man like him? |
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| I think it's perfectly possible in conversation to be proud of achievements without appearing egotistical. |
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| Did I deserve this dressing-down, or is someone indulging in an egotistical rant? |
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| He's cocky and egotistical and it's near impossible to get a word in edgeways. |
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| Why do we mistake him for a hero, rather than seeing him as a revisionist, angsty, egotistical, misanthrope? |
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| At the same time this policy encourages and mobilises the most reactionary, egotistical and anti-social elements. |
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| Unfortunately, he also discovers that she's about as self-centered and egotistical as someone can be. |
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| Or was he a cruel and egotistical monster who tore people down to build himself up? |
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| And I don't mean that as an egotistical statement or a boastful statement. |
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| He was vain, egotistical, boorish and gloriously insensitive. |
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| He curved and twisted the blade in his hand, a brief egotistical display before delivering the coup de grace, but it would prove to be his downfall. |
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| Whether driven by guilt or sympathy, we can and do reach out beyond our own egotistical world and take actions at personal expense on behalf of others. |
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| Don Quixote is the great chivalric egotist, never more egotistical than when he appears to be most chivalrous. |
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| In the end, his egotistical personality and his unabashed ambition to join the highest ranks did him in. |
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| With his gentle voice and romantic outlook, he provides a foil to the egotistical Tommy. |
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| With this in mind, I was not concerned about dealing with the director, egotistical or not. |
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| He regarded her as authoritarian, egotistical, intolerant, an aberration among Conservative leaders. |
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| What they call their sovereignty is only the civil and military defence of their egotistical interests and those of their wealthy classes. |
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| Principals, such as municipalities for example, may now only think, in purely egotistical terms, of the immediate benefit to themselves. |
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| Precisely because they are not ours, we cannot make an egotistical use of them. |
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| It may also be an egotistical expression of rich areas which refuse to accept financial adjustments in favor of disadvantaged regions. |
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| The human being is egotistical, unfortunately, and wants to only know things that are of interest to him. |
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| He was egotistical even as a child, it is noted, infatuated with the sight of his name on a rubber stamp and later as a byline. |
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| Look, if every powerful, semi-obnoxious, egotistical kazillionaire gives much of his kazillions away to charity, the world will be a much better place. |
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| Dali will always be the egotistical rock star of 20th century painting. |
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| To some, he is a theatrical god, to others, an egotistical showman. |
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| Doris also ventures back into the troubled waters of romance, whether she's being fixed up by her sons with an egotistical lawman or giving a braggart his comeuppance. |
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| I'm selfish, egotistical and self-indulgent, but not so much so that I cannot recognise the times when my selfish occupations need to be subordinated to the common good. |
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| Although this may seem rather egotistical, I want the Commission, in the minds of the people, to have a face and for those people forming the Commission to be able to meet our citizens as often as possible. |
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| With radio, it's much more immediate and I much more directly feel what I can put out as a programme and that's quite satisfying in its own ravingly egotistical way. |
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| They focus on the social and corporate structure forming the organization of the world and refer to public choice, dominant conceptions of self, narrow egotistical self, logic of dualistic thinking and eco-feminism. |
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| Artists, after all, are often driven, egotistical characters. |
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| The efforts we make to preserve the world of nature are much more egotistical than we may suppose, because, in the final analysis, it is for ourselves and for the human race to which we belong that we wish to preserve it. |
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| So if the egotistical Frenchman has it in him to be penitent, I believe the FA should treat him with a degree of leniency and not inflict a life sentence. |
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| Herr Bonhof has never divulged the identity of any one of these egotistical swellheads. |
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| That may have discouraged the more flagrantly egotistical deals. |
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| A violent man is: macho, tattooed, egotistical, strong and muscled, imposing, an alcoholic, a brawler, bad-tempered and impulsive, a crook, a criminal, always aggressive and violent. |
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| Indubitably, only through serene self-reflection and profound, internal meditation can we make a clear differentiation between inner, direct Luciferian impressions and bestial egotistical impressions. |
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| Autonomy cannot be understood in egotistical terms, either, meaning the freedom for academics to be exclusively concerned with themselves and their own limited interests. |
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| We can show our gratitude towards the US in many ways, just as the US can show its support for Europe by not exporting egotistical, blinkered economic short-sightedness. |
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| He is frequently characterised in his later life as a lustful, egotistical, harsh, and insecure king. |
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| A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up. |
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| But the puffery on most anniversary specials is mild, perhaps because there is something humbling about Katrina that abashes even the most egotistical personalities. |
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| Not donating to egotistical backslappers Jeremy Jones ALL this looks like to me is a bunch of millionaires trying to promote their careers. |
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