self-regard

Writer and director Jesse Armstrong never indulges the urge to humanize his narcissistic main characters by giving them secret soft sides or limits on their self-regard.

He sent his “Hitchhiker’s” hero Zaphod Beeblebrox through the Vortex only to have the machine confirm his self-regard: “I'm a really terrific and great guy!”

However, he believes that the current grievances aired by the likes of Bombshell are prompted more by self-regard than public interest.

Maybe I’m just hardwired to say this as a Gen X-er, but it’s been exasperating to see that optimism harden among some boomers into a kind of deluded self-regard.

New Yorkers have had to endure Trump's “personal brand,” comprising equal parts of privilege, bull***t and exploitation — all of it wrapped in hugely inflated self-regard, masking pathological insecurity — for half a lifetime now.