Instead of helping to ease the situation, I allow my own self-obsessed feelings of guilt override my duties to a wounded friend.
He was at a self-obsessed age, in a self-obsessed field, living in a self-obsessed era.
Then there was an earlier episode where he recounts his near marriage to the self-obsessed Fiona.
In my analysis of this tripartite division I shall identify the rational soul with the ego, or self-obsessed reactive mind of Buddhism.
Being the self-obsessed egomaniacs that we are we couldn't help asking a few questions about ourselves.
Stella eventually reappears and turns out to be a monster of self-obsessed childishness.
It doesn't make it easier to cut down on my road rage incidents or keep from hurling sporks at self-obsessed co-workers.
The past few weeks have been bursting with the self-obsessed, stumbling Brit who generously lets us peruse her journal entries.
Obviously, he needed to get out from under a self-obsessed, over-bearing mother!
Why should you care what a bunch of self-obsessed, over-ambitious, fuzzy-thinking weirdos think about what you have written?
The air signs are the guys who seem self-obsessed but spend most of their time with other people.
Inevitably, self-obsessed Gwen kicks against the system, until learning lessons the hard way.
The amount of self-obsessed whining I read almost made me feel sick.
We're all self-obsessed people living in our own little bubble.
Given what a generally ghastly, self-obsessed and conformist experience being a teenager is, this should come as something of a relief.
She played vain, self-obsessed, flighty pieces in High Fidelity and America's Sweetheart, then turned utterly evil in Traffic.
And as society is growing more self-obsessed, so discourtesy is increasing.
Even self-obsessed pop stars didn't want the rumour mill to overshadow their music.
Played by Alexa Vega, her Julie comes across as a self-obsessed bellyacher who's as sharp as a mouse's belly.
If I play it cool, will she think I'm a self-obsessed Casanova, looking for a back-alley love affair?
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When you are depressed and isolated anything you write is totally derivative and self-obsessed.
You may baulk at forking out your hard-earned cash for these extravagantly self-obsessed, petulant, little scamps.
What a self-absorbed, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, bratty generation of adults we have become.
I think God smiles on you because you're no longer so self-obsessed.
Life is painful for the basic reason that we are self-obsessed.
Churchill was, however, too self-obsessed to be a reliable friend.
His transition from self-created victim to self-obsessed nouveau adolescent, to the gently compassionate man his family actually needs is an extraordinary metamorphosis.
He, unfortunately, represents the stereotypical self-obsessed American.
The licensed trade are self-righteous, self-obsessed and selfish in their opposition to a ban.
But there's a self-obsessed drama type weaving and trilling and agonising and monopolising the stall owners.
Temperamental, vain and self-obsessed, she shows little sign of an interior life or interests.
This amounts to five hundred pages of self-obsessed navel-gazing, interspersed with intense bouts of self-loathing and lame jokes.
Here we have self-obsessed careerist Lindsey, falling in love with the irresistibly sweet school teacher Ben.
He was haughty, erratic, self-obsessed and his violin-playing was atrocious.
No wonder he has strops all over the place and is arrogant and self-obsessed.
We elevate charmless, self-obsessed artists with bloated egos to the status of cultural icons just because they can carry a tune.
I was a fourteen year old whose mother made fun of her own idolization of another self-obsessed, overly dramatic singer who similarly became a bloated replica of himself.
Becoming less self-obsessed, learning from failures and aping successful people's body language works as well in the boardroom as the singles bar.
They can be slightly po-faced affairs and often there will be slightly mental or self-obsessed people in the audience who ask strange or self-aggrandising questions.
It seems self-obsessed and it would bring out all these insecurities that would make me a horrible person to be around.
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As Oscar Wilde observed, the personal memoir, even if written for friends and family alone or to satisfy an importunate publisher, is always delightfully self-obsessed.
Self-marriage is the ultimate brand extension of a self-obsessed, selfish populus.
Simultaneously self-obsessed and self-assured, they think they know everything and look upon their elders with disdain.
Fortunately for the reader, Cordelia is even more headstrong than she is self-obsessed.
Then, the panel seemed actually to run amok, lost in their self-referential, self-obsessed banter.
Unfortunately, he ends up more involved than the viewer, because the leading characters are self-obsessed, self-pitying and lacking in redemptive sympathy.
Gossip, therefore, died and a sepulchral silence descended on the shop except for the customers' self-obsessed questions and the barber's answers.
Filmed on a boat, A Constructed World provides a version in which arrogant commercial excess and self-obsessed capitalism lead us to wonder if anything is worth saving.
He was paranoid, self-obsessed and misanthropic.
It's just been a constant round of self-obsessed navel-gazing here recently, so I thought that you might like me to return to some form of banality.
Work of Art is the new Anti-Aesthetic to the self-obsessed and parasitically over-professionalized Art World.
It's safe to say that the baby boom generation is the most self-obsessed group of people ever to have boulevardiered the planet.

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