| She'd thrown away religious doctrines and was now pronouncing religious ritual as nothing much more than a device for reducing egotism. |
| Their views are the result of a fallen and sinful human nature, of rampant egotism and arrogance, and nothing more. |
| He sullied his already dwindling credibility with an exhibition of arrogance, bad taste, and egotism that made for queasy viewing. |
| In contrast, Donat's more conventional theatricality does not convey enough of the terrible iciness of Hirst's egotism. |
| The problems of corporate governance are about much more than rapacious egotism. |
| Their pleasure was not happiness, contemporaries charged, but egotism, immorality, indulgence, and vice. |
