The artist solemnly sends up the studied self-absorption and inherent self-delusion that seem to be characteristics of the masculine gender. |
In our collective frenzy of self-absorption, we forget the immense responsibility we accept when we choose to bring children into this world. |
His self-absorption has been a lapse not only of judgment but of human decency. |
That struggle illustrates how broad-based culture, popular and vulgar, is far from being a mere distraction or a source of self-absorption. |
This more conventional, male-dominated reading is nevertheless subverted by each woman's narcissistic self-absorption. |
The most important is the myth of Narcissus, seen as the symbol of the youth's self-absorption. |