| The least happy are the self-indulgent, self-centered, self-assertive, self-pitying, or simply selfish. |
|
| Her self-pitying mood began after nominations on Tuesday night when she walked in on an intense conversation between Andre and Richard. |
|
| Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection. |
|
| Am I missing something, or is this a pathetic body of work, as whiny, self-pitying and incompetent as it is hateful? |
|
| I'm sorry for that, but weekends like I've just had make me nostalgic, self-pitying and sort of despairing once they're done. |
|
| I'm perfectly aware that even at the best of times, the above post would seem excessively introverted, self-pitying and navel-gazing. |
|
| It includes text which Joan wanted to use to show what it feels like to have breast cancer without making it depressing or self-pitying. |
|
| Just as the musicians' lyrics are violent, obscene and self-pitying, so is the generation that supports their opulent lifestyle. |
|
| While he is strangely compelling in this role at first, the red and self-pitying eyes get old after the first 30 minutes. |
|
| It is virtually tuneless, self-pitying, uninteresting and is a world apart from the subtle atmospherics of the band's best work. |
|
| Sorry, I'm aware that the above paragraphs are little more than a protracted and self-pitying whinge, but I needed to get it off my chest. |
|
| You're a stubborn, pig-headed, self-pitying man who's only thinking of himself and what will happen to him if his hands don't heal! |
|
| This seemed to be the real Frank, grumpy, graceless, self-pitying and desperate to get away from his wife and kids. |
|
| This expresses the Russian leadership's victimhood complex at its most self-pitying. |
|
| This album is full of self-pitying dirges which give the impression of a slightly sad man-child sulking about girls in his bedroom. |
|
| Think of when you read back over old diary entries and the intensity of the mood that made you write them had passed, leaving only the faintly self-pitying words behind. |
|
| I have not yet myself lived long enough on this earth to even begin to know what to say in answer to such a heartfelt but absurd and self-pitying statement. |
|
| Unfortunately, he ends up more involved than the viewer, because the leading characters are self-obsessed, self-pitying and lacking in redemptive sympathy. |
|
| Unlike the countless self-pitying plagiarists who have followed in his wake, his was not simply another all-American whine. |
|
| Ignore the latter, in which a self-pitying Kelly enumerates his woes in gospelised ballads. |
|
|
|
| By turns disagreeable, petulant, and self-pitying, they have as a group failed their employees, their investors, and their customers. |
|
| He is by turns violent, sentimental, maudlin, self-pitying, and sadistic, and has a fine line in rhetoric. |
|
| I have no intention of disrupting their adjustment just because my currently holiday mopey self-pitying housemate thinks the world revolves around her. |
|
| He is a smug, self-pitying boor who turns the caring doctor stereotype on its head. |
|
| The book is harsh, not self-pitying, but it definitely requires a strong stomach. |
|
| Also, a little bit of self-pitying comfort eating probably wouldn't go amiss either, Nicole. |
|
| Harry's a good guy, but he needs to guard against coming across as whingeing and self-pitying. |
|
| It could have been maudlin and self-pitying, and none of that was there. |
|
| His work with Gray opened up the possibility of playing the self-destructive and chaotic, without ever allowing them to slip into something uncommunicatively self-pitying. |
|
| Maybe it would have been better if I had set my mind on writing a maudlin, self-pitying note that I would have been able to throw away the next day. |
|
| Maybe finally we can concentrate on the victims rather than the tedious self-pitying moans of the offenders. |
|
| A smug, self-pitying sleepwalk through celebrity culture, it might make her Hollywood pals smirk but it will likely make you snore. |
|
| They are only having self-pity on themselves when their children are watching them and then they'll grow up as self-pitying. |
|
| His words were laced with an edge — churlish, chiding and self-pitying. |
|
| My God, what self-pitying, gratuitous dross. |
|
| Strung out on a punishing regimen of diet pills, the once genial young man becomes a sullen, self-pitying wreck. |
|
| Working together, Julie gets to see another, less self-pitying side of him, but is their relationship about to become more than just professional? |
|
| That he comes up a shade self-pitying is reconciled only by the fact that he's made the subject songworthy this late in his career. |
|
| Eddy's revelation shakes Dwight out of his self-pitying fug and he tidies his appearance then drives back to West Virginia to dole out what he perceives as justice to Will. |
|
