At its best, critics said, "Seinfeld" was television's most imaginative and idiosyncratic comedy, offering the most endearing set of self-absorbed characters ever created.

She opined that Indigo Walker (Samara Weaving) was left to play "the irritating self-absorbed character" as usual.

It takes yet another layer of artifice to capture Wycherley's immoral, self-absorbed characters onstage, and that's the theatrical trick.

Any sense of isolation is that of its self-absorbed characters, not of the film.

On the other hand, the self-absorbed characters and shaggy-dog humor of "Seinfeld" mark it as cool.

She is the kind of edgy, comically self-absorbed character Ms. Davis has perfected.

- and with three main characters so unpleasant and self-absorbed you actively want bad things to happen to them.

But the acting is first rate, and the picture shows an appealing sympathy for its vain, self-absorbed characters, no matter how monstrously or ridiculously they behave (Scott).

Yet Steve Coogan, the actor who plays the churlish, self-absorbed character, is revered in his home country as a comic genius.

While both performances are excellent, Bening's grieving, regretful "mother" is nothing like her materialistic, self-absorbed character in American Beauty.