How To Use Navel-gazing In A Sentence
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Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection.
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But ideological arguments, navel-gazing and the odd bout of nat-bashing aside, how will Labour members actually vote?
Archive 2009-09-01
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All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
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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
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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
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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.
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This article is a sad commentary on the state of public schools and the navel-gazing mooncalves we hire to run them.
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Yes, sometimes it might seem like too much navel-gazing.
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That question will prompt much navel-gazing when the theatre's first productions appear, but looking inwards is only one way to answer it.
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All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
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The tape with the self-righteous denunciations has been taken off the reel while the new tape, full of self-righteous media navel-gazing, is cued up.
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At their worst, they devolve into a sort of constant New Yorker navel-gazing that is three parts cinema verite, one part melodrama (See In Treatment).
Recent Adventures in Televised Entertainment
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With NASA mired in navel-gazing and bureaucracy, it makes sense to support private development of outer space.
» Another reason to alert D.D. Herriman heinleinblog
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Whether you regard it as navel-gazing or self-analysis via the art of portraiture, the self-portrait can reveal far deeper aspects of the self than merely a replication of the face in the picture.
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In my experience it tends to get frittered away on TV channel-hopping, window shopping, aimless net surfing or general navel-gazing.
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You could call this navel-gazing, or you could agree that national identity is a vague and powerful thing, and deserves the odd moment of contemplation.
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This is revenge theatre that is an exercise in self-referential, stage-centric, obsessive navel-gazing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps our playwrights should focus less on public navel-gazing and more on creating roles worthy of the host of immensely talented actors who so improbably bless our country.
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This amounts to five hundred pages of self-obsessed navel-gazing, interspersed with intense bouts of self-loathing and lame jokes.
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Rather than indulging in what they regard as navel-gazing they intend to pursue a mindless pragmatism instead, regardless of what many of their members may think.
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This is all tremendously inward-looking, navel-gazing stuff isn't it?
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I do want to move on from the last three days navel-gazing though.
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But there will be nothing salutary about this failure if governments retreat from Europe into navel-gazing and narrow national agendas.
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‘That is one area where there is danger of introspection and navel-gazing,’ she says.
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Wow, managing to wedge a piece of Einstein's special theory of relativity into some particularly indulgent navel-gazing.
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Instead the focus would shift, away from institutional navel-gazing - which turns off voters in their millions - and towards tangible outcomes.
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Elsewhere, religion's understanding of truth and selfless commitment to a wider community or cause appears preferable to today's culture of narcissism and navel-gazing.
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The whole business of writing about cyber-culture seems vain and navel-gazing to me.
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But why on earth is such theological navel-gazing necessary to determine the future of two people whose devotion for each other has been tested time and time again?
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I'm perfectly aware that even at the best of times, the above post would seem excessively introverted, self-pitying and navel-gazing.
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Being now retired and never having been in the police force and only transiently in the civil service — although I must say the large corporate I worked for for 35 years did try its very best to adhere to the official Home Office-approved diversity navel-gazing standards — I feel rather left out of this act of collective absolution.
Thanks For Telling Me What I Think « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The template for this book's monologues is the on-screen navel-gazing of TV contestants, and it requires of its reader a similar concern for triviality.
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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.
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Indeed, this kind of national navel-gazing smacks of the arrogance that drove a generation of egomaniacs to go trekking off to Katmandu to ‘find themselves’.
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So now I can stop navel-gazing and get back to current events.
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This amounts to five hundred pages of self-obsessed navel-gazing, interspersed with intense bouts of self-loathing and lame jokes.
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Others are authored by navel-gazing college students or self-declared alcoholics detailing each wretched night's debauch.
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Too much navel-gazing, Ms Helena Latimer, she scolded herself and pushed her way to the tube door.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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A photographer with a job must look outside himself, escaping from the private navel-gazing of so much contemporary art.
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She shines as the materfamilias who has passed her navel-gazing tendencies to her daughters.
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I'd always had somewhat of an itch to be a writer, or at least try my hand at writing, but other than a few pale short stories and a navel-gazing attempt at a roman-a-clef, I hadn't written much.
Jason Pinter: Jason Pinter: Why My Next Book Is An eBook. Only.
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Thankfully, though, I believe that the Scottish art world has wider horizons than such navel-gazing, self-pitying introspection.
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But this countercultural move isn't the navel-gazing type.
Eric J. Henderson: Hip Hop and the (Near) Future
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For many people thinking is a very esoteric concept and some people would see a conference about thinking as intellectual navel-gazing.
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Listen with as much attention as your navel-gazing egomania can allow.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
