| The artist solemnly sends up the studied self-absorption and inherent self-delusion that seem to be characteristics of the masculine gender. |
| In the painting of Maurice Alaric, a local boy, Newton captures the restlessness and self-absorption of youth. |
| His self-absorption has been a lapse not only of judgment but of human decency. |
| The absorbance was always kept below 0.05 to avoid self-absorption of the fluorescence. |
| The most important is the myth of Narcissus, seen as the symbol of the youth's self-absorption. |
| That struggle illustrates how broad-based culture, popular and vulgar, is far from being a mere distraction or a source of self-absorption. |
