navel-gazing / ˈneɪ vəlˌgeɪ zɪŋ /

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navel-gazing 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Slang.

  1. excessive absorption in self-analysis or focus on a single issue.

更多navel-gazing例句

  1. But whereas we used to be satisfied gazing on that perfection as it stood up on a pedestal, now we want it down among us.
  2. Such large sheets are common in Kobani, meant to protect fighters and civilians from the ever gazing eyes of ISIS snipers.
  3. Johnson kept doing all he could, gazing down at those eyes that gazed right back at him with a seemingly stunned look.
  4. “Me neither,” Lohse says, gazing pityingly at his own navel.
  5. Or gazing towards the Bible stories, saints and martyrs depicted in the arched stained glass windows.
  6. The Alcalde was kneeling by his side, gazing sadly and earnestly into the face of the dying man.
  7. He was holding his big head high in the air, like a giraffe, and gazing proudly about him as he ran.
  8. Bernard folded his hands together—almost devoutly—and stood gazing at her with a long, inarticulate murmur of satisfaction.
  9. Yet when I stop gazing the next impulse is to move on; for if I have time to rest anywhere, why not at home?
  10. "I believe that is what they call it," Gordon answered, gazing back at her with his densely clouded blue eyes.