NOUN
- literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption
How To Use navel-gazing In A Sentence
- Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection.
- But ideological arguments, navel-gazing and the odd bout of nat-bashing aside, how will Labour members actually vote? Archive 2009-09-01
- All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
- But the French like nothing better than endless discussions and over-intellectualizing, so Allen's cinematic navel-gazing never lost its luster here -- even as his films became stale and a chunk of his American audience drifted away. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris
- We hate to over-emphasize the political experts and activists role in this for fear of navel-gazing, but in this case, they matter. It's Go Time for Pawlenty
- With each novel read and each film watched comes a new range of bloggable ideas, which might well make more interesting reading than the standard-issue navel-gazing, but take time to compose, while other matters press harder.
- This article is a sad commentary on the state of public schools and the navel-gazing mooncalves we hire to run them.
- Yes, sometimes it might seem like too much navel-gazing.
- That question will prompt much navel-gazing when the theatre's first productions appear, but looking inwards is only one way to answer it.
- All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
