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单词 self-involved
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Definition of self-involved in English:

self-involved

adjective sɛlfɪnˈvɒlvd
  • Wrapped up in oneself or one's own thoughts.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A self-involved or pessimistic man is especially bad.
    • Most people are so focused on their careers these days and so self-involved.
    • The writer's protagonists dramatize this possibility: they are self-involved, troubled dreamers wielding therapeutic scalpels on themselves.
    • He is a very self-involved, vain, voyeuristic, childlike, power-hungry but brilliant guy.
    • The film has a self-involved man returning to his rural family homestead after learning that his father has died.
    • I dreamt I'd got so self-involved that my friends decided to teach me a lesson and I had to barricade myself into my house.
    • When everyone stops being so self-involved and realizes we are all in this together things may actually work out.
    • I must have been so self-involved to think that everyone was looking at me instead of enjoying themselves.
    • ‘I was,’ I said, ‘but he turned out to be a self-involved jerk and broke up with me.’
    • If there was one thing everyday Americans didn't want to hear, it was self-involved celebrities trashing the president.
    • We'll get back to the usual self-involved fluff tomorrow.
    • Many therapists have been told that they are more sensitive, intelligent and compassionate than the patient's callous, self-involved, demanding and critical spouse.
    • Seriously, I am self-involved enough at this point to be quite sure that we are entertaining all those boats and all those people in the gardens.
    • He's horribly self-involved, yet he probably imagines that he's trying to save the world.
    • He's a self-involved narcissist who cares only about whether he's on a coin or not.
    • Worse still, it feels like a self-involved exercise - not a terrifically interesting one for the audience.
    • Just to show how garish, intrusive, and self-involved advertisers can be, these corporate milk giants are actually trying to promote their promotion.
    • The world of the vital has escaped our fiction, to be replaced by the world of the trivial and self-involved.
    • Sometimes I look at her when she is acting like a true pre-teen girl, whining and crying one minute and screaming in anger the next, dramatic and annoying and so self-involved it's scary.
    • It is surprising when the self-involved members of this family are drawn together by their concern for their mother when her health falters as a result of cosmetic surgery.

Derivatives

  • self-involvement

  • noun ˌsɛlfɪnˈvɒlvm(ə)ntˌsɛlfɪnˈvɑlvmənt
    mass noun
    • The quality of being wrapped up in oneself or one's own thoughts.

      the characters display a limitless self-involvement
      Example sentencesExamples
      • adolescent self-involvement
      • When I think of your photography I don't perceive too much self-involvement or self-portraits.
      • Paranoid and timid where the other is swollen with self-involvement, its principle preoccupation is with questions that are larger and darker than simple romantic misfortune.
      • Her speechifying was made fun of, and her black and white, self-righteous attitude grew out of her own long-running self-involvement; it was very obviously intended as a character flaw.
 
 

Definition of self-involved in US English:

self-involved

adjectiveinˈvôlvd
  • Wrapped up in oneself or one's own thoughts.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is surprising when the self-involved members of this family are drawn together by their concern for their mother when her health falters as a result of cosmetic surgery.
    • I dreamt I'd got so self-involved that my friends decided to teach me a lesson and I had to barricade myself into my house.
    • We'll get back to the usual self-involved fluff tomorrow.
    • The world of the vital has escaped our fiction, to be replaced by the world of the trivial and self-involved.
    • ‘I was,’ I said, ‘but he turned out to be a self-involved jerk and broke up with me.’
    • A self-involved or pessimistic man is especially bad.
    • He's a self-involved narcissist who cares only about whether he's on a coin or not.
    • The writer's protagonists dramatize this possibility: they are self-involved, troubled dreamers wielding therapeutic scalpels on themselves.
    • Just to show how garish, intrusive, and self-involved advertisers can be, these corporate milk giants are actually trying to promote their promotion.
    • Worse still, it feels like a self-involved exercise - not a terrifically interesting one for the audience.
    • Many therapists have been told that they are more sensitive, intelligent and compassionate than the patient's callous, self-involved, demanding and critical spouse.
    • I must have been so self-involved to think that everyone was looking at me instead of enjoying themselves.
    • Most people are so focused on their careers these days and so self-involved.
    • Seriously, I am self-involved enough at this point to be quite sure that we are entertaining all those boats and all those people in the gardens.
    • He's horribly self-involved, yet he probably imagines that he's trying to save the world.
    • When everyone stops being so self-involved and realizes we are all in this together things may actually work out.
    • Sometimes I look at her when she is acting like a true pre-teen girl, whining and crying one minute and screaming in anger the next, dramatic and annoying and so self-involved it's scary.
    • If there was one thing everyday Americans didn't want to hear, it was self-involved celebrities trashing the president.
    • The film has a self-involved man returning to his rural family homestead after learning that his father has died.
    • He is a very self-involved, vain, voyeuristic, childlike, power-hungry but brilliant guy.
 
 
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