N-UNCOUNT 自我耽溺;冥思苦想;钻牛角尖 If you refer to an activity as navel-gazing, you are critical of it because people are thinking about something for a long time but take no action on it. 自我耽溺;冥思苦想;钻牛角尖 [disapproval]
She dismisses the reform process as an exercise in collective navel gazing.