Word: narcissistically
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...attention, finally attracting his notice by a contrived and blatant flaunting of her sexuality. The implication, of course, is that Daisy serves as another girl for Ethan's score card. As a result, it becomes painful to observe the developing relationship. Indeed, Daisy's infatuation with such a narcissist has a downright misogynistic undertone...
...uncomfortable place: a safe, happy marriage to a man who probably won't leave. Like a girl in a beautiful dress that fits just too snugly, she must find a way out. The humiliation she suffers when she does so (in wrenching, honest scenes) ultimately transforms her from a narcissist into, finally, at 40, a grownup...
...reincarnation, not as one person this time, but as an entire decade--the '60s. This expansive metaphysics would have allowed him to show off all his facets: as holy man and party boy, as faith healer, sexual omnivore, purveyor of mystic salvations and bogus profundities, enemy of soap, hairy narcissist...
...heated fight over closing gay bathhouses in San Francisco, the major homosexual characters are nearly all responsible public servants or saintly victims. Even Gaetan Dugas -- the Canadian flight attendant known as "Patient Zero," whom Shilts identified as a key early spreader of the disease -- is here simply a suave narcissist, not (as Shilts implies) an almost criminally reckless libertine who knowingly spread the disease...
...turned around by the narcissist to say, "Look how important I am that all these people care about my life." A narcissist in Gutfreund's position might say, "Look at my impact on the financial world. My screw-up has instituted a wave of reform." This is why Levine is bouncing back, consulting, giving lectures at business schools. He's had the audacity to stand in front of students and talk ethics. You or I might have been shamed into suicide. I mean, I would die if, like Levine, I was arrested and my parents saw me dragged to jail...