Sentences with phrase «of egotists»

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

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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.

From this perspective, the disciple of the Lesser Vehicle must seem to be an egotist — «what does his holiness mean to me, if he is holy only for himself,» asks Santideva's Bodhicaryavatara, the ethical mirror of Mahayana.

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.

One of the distinctions that people fail to understand is the distinction between what an egoist is and what an egotist is.

Why is god such a raging egotist that he requires perpetual words of praise without hints of modesty on his / her part?

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.

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.

He was a genius who invented calculus as a student at Cambridge during a 1665 outbreak of plague but failed to publish his findings; an egotist who would later covertly convene a committee to accuse his rival Gottfried Leibniz, an independent originator of calculus, of plagiarism; and a heretic who rejected the Trinity but was deeply religious (one fascinating document on display is his hand - drawn reconstruction of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, based on biblical units of measurement).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Then throw in a cast of actors who are known for playing connivers or egotists, such as James Woods (usually a bad guy) as the schmoozy doctor, Anne Heche (incredibly annoying) as the ambitious hospital administrator, and Ray Liotta (usually a bad guy) as the politically - minded chief of police.

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.

Semi-related, recently The Yaoi Review posted this information from Digital Manga's newsletter regarding one of their DMP's light novel releases, The Lonely Egotist:

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.

I have found very few of the really top artists to be egotists and I can not see how anyone who truly appreciates art can be sexist.