Search Details

Word: narcissist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Well, he reflected later, the planet can no longer sustain the luxury of pure wild walking, which may in any case carry a certain taint of the elitist or the narcissist, a demand for virginity. (Americans and Europeans have always liked to think of themselves as the first white men ever to have walked into some wild place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Walking on The Wild Side | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...good at hating, hate Michael Dukakis. Ailes went around spreading the word that Michael Dukakis is "Mr. Elbows and Knees" when it comes to dirty campaigning, that Kitty was behind the release of the Biden tape, that Dukakis had mental problems he was hiding, that he "is a classic narcissist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Populist | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...well, "being a political figure, an exceptional businesswoman, an active supporter of her husband's career, a conscientious mother, a producer, a writer and an international star is a bit much for one person." Alas, the women all had the audacity to change. Only Vadim, 58, author, actor, filmmaker, narcissist, has managed to keep his outlook and ego evergreen. "When I came into the world," he laments, "I must have come to the wrong civilization." Exactement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Apr. 28, 1986 | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...also an alarming example of what can happen when a shaky personality forfeits her identity to celebrity. Fred is, on the other hand, a passive narcissist. He takes his attractiveness for granted, breaks hearts out of thoughtlessness rather than malice, and has developed no antibodies against lovesickness. When Rosemary eventually boots him out of her bed, about all the sympathy one can muster is a facetious "Poor baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charades | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Joan Hackett, 49, elegant, intense actress best remembered for her first film role, as a neurotic Vassar graduate in The Group (1966), and one of her last, as an aging narcissist in Only When I Laugh (1981); of cancer; in Encino, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyman as Tragic Hero: Sir Ralph Richardson, 1902-1983 | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next