Sentences with word «egotist»

Yes, the manager of the club is insidious, the lead is a bitch, the backers are vicious, and the competition is brutal, but Nomi is a self - centered egotist who makes her way to the top with back stabbing and violence.

Casting Steve Coogan as another ex-colleague of Thorncroft's (who's since found fame through a Lewis - style spin - off) highlights Mindhorn's debt to Alan Partridge, another blinkered egotist with delusions of competence.

It is a factory for the production of egotists and cynics.»

These include dictators using cloning to amass an army of «perfect soldiers» or wealthy egotists seeking to produce hundreds or thousands of copies of themselves.

My advice to Shaw is to get out of Manchester at the first available opportunity for the sake of his own self respect and to allow himself the chance to resurrect his career under a less self absorbed egotist.

Mad Scientists, being the rampant egotists that they are, tend to clone themselves when they want... Sign up today and start chatting with single parents.

«The Lonely Egotist, a yaoi novel from Digital Manga's June imprint, is no longer available at the wholesale level.

It has no truth, it is full of sick perverts and disgusting egotists.

Anyone who wants to be the President of the USA could be a be a crazy egotist.

Why is it that your god is such a vengeful egotist that he can't tolerate anyone not believing in or worshipping him?

At twenty - four he retired to a family estate in Thuringia to devote himself exclusively to study: «egotist though of the noblest variety, Epicurean if of the finest grain, he took over from destiny which had spoiled him so far, the task of further spoiling,» as the historian A. Dove has put it.

It is a fine line however between aggressive, hard worker, and annoying egotist.

YOU ARE A DISAPPOINTING EGOTIST.

The last City academy player to pull this stunt was Sturridge and I very much doubt if City have regretted that much, he seems a big headed selfish egotist and has consistently failed to deliver on the talent and promise.

But I would not describe the owners as rich egotists.

By doing so, you can stand up for the most high - minded of Democratic Party principles and renew the great American insistence — an insistence far too often thwarted by egotists, megalomaniacs and the venal — on good, clean government.

This result suggests that charisma influences how egotists» ideas are received, but the ideas themselves are no more creative than average.

Tarantino is an over indulged egotist who hasn't made a good film since Jackie Brown.

Having waited so long to act the part, Reynolds takes an infectious delight in playing the sardonic egotist.

A wide - eyed innocent abroad and a prissy egotist with a malevolent streak, Pee - wee certainly dances to his own beat, though it's one Burton is certainly attuned to, creating a cavalcade of carnivalesque wit, wonder and fear as the dauntless protagonist crosses America in search of his beloved stolen bicycle.

There is no end to the madness and mayhem for these feuding egotists.

Perry broke out of the New York indie - filmmaking scene with thrillingly abrasive works like The Color Wheel (2012), Listen Up Philip (2014), and Queen of Earth (2015), all of them centered on prickly egotists, and all of them willing to dig into their protagonists» caustic inner monologues.

Deveraux, a leftist economist, despite devoting his life to helping the less fortunate, is exposed as no less a Randian egotist than the worst right - wing cartoon: his utterly unshakeable belief in the inviolability of his own self - interest the only guiding principle of his existence.

You'd think that — and the fact that Madalyn was a tough - talking, abrasive egotist — would be enough story to go around, but there's more.

Perhaps he's all three, but Julian's actions, which can range from wise prophet one moment to seething egotist the next, don't feel rooted in an established character.

Whether you believe Jerry Lewis is a comic genius, a braying clown, a shrewd show - biz pro who carefully cultivated a popular stage and screen persona, a hopeless egotist with a cringing need for attention, or simply a comic with a gift for manic physical humor that clicked with audiences in the fifties and sixties, most people agree that The Nutty Professor was his greatest film as a director and his most interesting variation on the child - man figure he had transformed into Hollywood gold.

The only constants are Tony Revolori as young Zero (whom Anderson makes a bland non-character) and Fiennes, who has a grand time as the urbane, poetry - spouting, bisexual egotist who steals a priceless painting and goes on the run.

Developing the premise of a commentary that goes horribly wrong from the outset, Thurber, Vaughn, and Stiller play themselves as, respectively, a frustrated reactionary; a mood - swinging egotist eating, drinking and smoking while narrating the obvious; and a sarcastic jerk who shows up late.

In the seven years since the launch of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has done such a good job of besmirching his own name that no hatchet job could ever be as effective as the truth: Julian Assange comes across as an unempathetic self - aggrandising egotist.

The tired jokes about the entertainment business not nearly as clever and barbed as Ephron obviously thinks they are; her big biting zinger appears to be that — shocker — big celebrities can be insufferable egotists!

Heâ $ ™ s Roger Greenberg, the sort of socially malfunctioning egotist that gives amateur psychologists hours of fun.

His social scalpel sharpened, he set out to uncover the ugly, but alluring, underbelly of the cash - fueled power politics of the art world, with its elite egotists ever - battling for prominence.

There careers have NOTHING to do with snot - nosed, unknown egotists demanding people give them money for their childish, unvetted, horrible amateur slush.

The cost of doing so in this election for President is minuscule, because both candidates are dishonest egotists.

Players who want to feed banknotes to an already - overrated egotist are advised to do so with all haste, but those with any regard for quality in interactive storytelling and the narrative structure of video games should look elsewhere.

(Who would have guessed that Barney would find inspiration in an overblown egotist?)

This domestic violence is meant to create a victim, a prosecutor and a judge all rolled out in a single unscrupulous and egotist wife.

Their well - intended programs to alleviate juvenile delinquency or ease the burdens of the aged overlook basic truisms: that the human impulse is to achieve; that children, like septuagenarians, respond to need more quickly than to praise; and that do - gooders all too often are egotists seeking applause rather than results.

Self - absorbed egotists are at the heart of the breathlessly acclaimed production of Chekhov's «The Seagull,» a drama about the disappointments and adversities of disaffected Russian theater artists in the late 19th century.