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That cynical, egocentric muscle artist was too pleased with himself to have any room in his thoughts for proper superstitious awe, and too stupid to recognize the superior science in back of the halo device. "Remove the device," Boswellister ordered.
Rushford would give her the enjoyment of a larger income than her father's, as well as insure her the house in town, which was now a prime object, it became by the same rule of moral obligation, her evident duty to marry Mr. Rushford if she could." The egocentric worldliness of this is superb.
But I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort. 'No, she said, pondering. 'You are just egocentric. You never have any enthusiasm, you never come out with any spark towards me. You want yourself, really, and your own affairs.
The only checks are those which health and wholeness demand. Its standards are those of the natural universal. Its method is egocentric. The poet never goes out of himself, but draws everything into himself and makes it all serve to illustrate his personality. Its form is not what is called artistic.
He could critically assess her and show his dislike openly so long as it was done respectfully. True motherly love was raising children and not needing to smother them in maternal, nurturing instincts or expecting understanding that their egocentric beings could not muster.
She felt the horror behind what she had done and yet there was nothing she could do. If she were to stop the car and return to them to apologize they would probably pelt her and the car both with stones. She disliked egocentric children. She even disliked the refugee children whom she worked with part-time until two days ago although she camouflaged it in professionalism.
The President's spiteful censure and treatment of us, both during the war and at Versailles, may be explained psychologically, by the fact that we rejected his efforts as a mediator, and declared the U-boat war. Mr. Wilson's personal sensitiveness and egocentric nature played an essential part in all the negotiations.
As if a father could not be a fool like anybody else! That a child should have hard-and-fast opinions it is engaging. Children are egocentric. A fellow of this size ought to be less positive. These refined youths are fastidious about their clothes. They would not dream of buying a ready-made suit, however well-fitting. They are content to take their opinions second-hand.
"He can't get away from it because he can't get away from himself. His mind is egocentric and his ego lives in Wyck." Barbara had had to ask Ralph to help her. They were in the library together now, working on the Ramblings during one of Mr. Waddington's periodical flights to London. "He thinks he's rambling round the country but he's really rambling round and round himself.
This egocentric interpretation of history has not only been the dominant one in explaining the great political changes of the past, it is now the reasoning of the common mind, of the yellow press, of the demagogue, in dealing with the causes of the evils of the present day.
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