As they open up to each other about their woes, neither seems to recognise how monstrously selfish and shallow they appear. |
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On a more selfish note, am I going to be totally screwed because I don't even have a memorable catch-phrase? |
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For Scotland's only representative in the game's biggest tournament, the motives are purely selfish. |
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When it comes down to basics I'm no less selfish than anyone else I know and, thank heavens, I'm not foolish enough to think otherwise. |
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I wanted to drop that experience like a tot of honeyed mead into my subconscious, for my own, selfish poetic reasons. |
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Under the influence of Corthell, Laura's nervousness, selfish insecurity, and old love for theatric self-representation returns. |
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To do good deeds simply to obtain good karma would be to act from a selfish motive, and would not earn much merit. |
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In my heart I was already no longer the big angry man, but a stupid and selfish little boy who was on the point of committing matricide. |
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These protests were invariably portrayed by the various governments as selfish or sectionally motivated and as a disruption of patient care. |
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They both present themselves as selfish, self-centered individuals and they deserve one another. |
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His was not the kiss of a callow adolescent or a selfish boy bent on earning a notch on his bedpost for being the first to defrost her. |
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Normal polite, generous people seem to turn into very selfish, self-centred individuals once they light up a cigarette. |
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I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it. |
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Needless to say Bruce, being the selfish, self-centered person he is, abuses his newfound power to his own advantage. |
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If it does come, it would be triggered by the naked greed of a nation that is selfish and self-centred to the point of gross stupidity. |
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There are millions who never resort to violence or abuse others, who never are dishonest, selfish or greedy in their business dealings. |
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Even middle class is these days often used as a venomous synonym for smug, unadventurous or selfish. |
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Our children don't need to meet those selfish attitudes behind a steering wheel. |
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We hear too often about how today's young people are selfish and only interested in instant self-gratification. |
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Since no crime has been committed in the absence of a selfish motive, these are mostly open and shut cases. |
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We say people are basically selfish and self-interested, so that's how the market should be constructed. |
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Try to protest that the government is ruining your health with its selfish pleasures and see how far you get! |
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Either they buy too much, with the selfish aim of making themselves rich, or they sell too soon in an unreasonable panic. |
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The consumer is encouraged to feel that the transaction is less selfish, on both sides, than normal. |
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They said society believed that they did a lucrative job for purely selfish reasons. |
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I realized then that what I had said sounded incredibly selfish, yet I did not speak up. |
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It will merely alert everyone else on the bus to the fact that you are irredeemably selfish. |
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She was also starting to think that maybe she was a bit too selfish towards him. |
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She felt a bit envious momentarily before she brushed it off, feeling selfish. |
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In my last conversation with my Grandmother before she died she called me selfish. |
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The more selfish and narrow-minded interests are allowed to rule, the fewer good things there are for the country and the citizens as a whole. |
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I gave a bittersweet sigh and tried not to feel selfish about the situation. |
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Sports cars have been called selfish cars on account of the fact you don't have to give anyone a lift but one cupholder was a bit much! |
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You can be rather selfish, though, and a partner needs to be able to deal with your quick temper and impulsive tantrums. |
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By our very nature, we are selfish, jealous, envious, stricken with strife, and sometimes downright rebellious. |
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Is it selfish to seek for personal justice if it risks jeopardising the delicate work of the democratic movement? |
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My beautiful children who I'd had were just gone out of my life in that one single moment, that one simple, selfish act. |
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The stingy and selfish Nash refused to acknowledge his son and would not provide child support until Stier sued him. |
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I cried as I admitted that I was so selfish that I was blinded to the fact that Will had needed my help all along. |
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There's no way of spinning this as anything other than a purely selfish move, a cash grab out of naked greed. |
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How selfish he must think I am, she thought irascibly, tugging her long slender fingers through her hair to unravel the lacquered knots. |
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There are persons who love you but unmeaningly hurt you, and there are those who unmeaningly hurt you for their own selfish emotional reasons. |
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I just hadn't realised that so many straight men could be so selfish and unloving towards their offspring. |
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Motorists who grumble about the lack of parking spaces in city centres are selfish and stupid. |
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His wife and children, who he dotes on, were at the seaside so he was having a couple of days of selfish fun. |
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I think highly educated people put too much stock into book learning and it produces really narrow skills that are totally selfish. |
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She had to harden herself so that she could get on with life instead of acting like a wimp, a selfish wimp at that. |
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And yet part of me worries that to see myself as the subject of my own life story is in some way selfish. |
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My other reason is selfish I guess, maybe I'm using it as a litmus test to uncover kindred spirits that enjoy the same things that I do. |
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My selfish desires had led me into betraying this withdrawn and deeply religious family. |
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He sweeps them off their feet, uses them for his own selfish purposes, and then dumps them when he gets tired of them. |
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These selfish ungrateful wretches not only had the audacity to return Howard but compounded their sin by giving him a seemingly compliant Senate. |
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I've never met such a snobbish, selfish, unfriendly, rude lot in all my life. |
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Are we to believe that graduates of Yale are so narrow-minded and selfish that they only want to help Yalies? |
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She turns on her own staff to make a selfish, self-serving deal behind closed doors that later gets revealed. |
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Most humans are selfish, and Indian cricketers alone should not be singled out. |
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If a child is undisciplined and selfish, there is nobody to blame but the parents. |
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She now knew how reprehensible stealing the free will of others was, and she renounced her selfish ways. |
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Many in positions of power undermine others and the organization to meet their own selfish needs. |
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Many think of companies as amoral, profit-hungry beasts that will do anything to promote their own selfish interests. |
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Today the more religious zeal a person has, the more selfish and heartless he is apt to be. |
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All I needed was the answer to number thirty but she was selfish and didn't give me the answer. |
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We want to change the system so that the selfish and self-serving villains don't feel the need to harm others. |
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We will be spared the horrors of greedy, selfish and self-serving individuals who trample over people so that they can get a million dollars. |
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Your youngster may feel it is hopeless to try to be good, that he is doomed to be uncaring like the father, or selfish like the mother. |
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If we act in a purely selfish, self-serving manner, then the future fruition of that action will be negative. |
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That is so self-serving and selfish in my opinion, so that's the last thing I want to do. |
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Promoting sensual pleasure, selfish interest, consumerism and individualism should not be the ultimate goal. |
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The least happy are the self-indulgent, self-centered, self-assertive, self-pitying, or simply selfish. |
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Next time you meet a locavore, accuse them of callously not assisting poorer peoples by refusing to buy their produce for their selfish reasons. |
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But Drew had to admit she also had a more selfish, ulterior motive for not going. |
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Their prettiness are in the selfish mind and in the untrained eyes behind the blinkers of this blind beholder! |
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I completely lost it and shouted and screamed at him about how selfish he is. |
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It shows moreover that most ordinary people are not innately selfish and greedy. |
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You should be careful of people's deeply felt grief and sense of loss before you dismiss them as selfish cynics. |
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My personal solution was to run away from it all, and while that has made me happier, I also realize that it was selfish and cowardly. |
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The second tendency is for societies to erect moral codes, which often frown on behaviour encoded by our selfish genes. |
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Having Walter mooning over her and being frustrated was gratifying in a selfish way. |
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His challenge is to prove that the disruptive, tub-thumping and sometimes selfish approach will not be at the expense of long-term stability. |
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I dropped hints to Ed, but I feel rather selfish in doing so because it's a tad pricey for our budget. |
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I was reluctant to have the party but my daughter and wife said not to be selfish and talked me into it. |
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From the start, those that have championed the path of anarchy have exposed themselves as malcontents with selfish interests at heart. |
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Autocratic rages and selfish bursts of temperament seem not to have been in his repertoire. |
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He proved a selfish, egocentric, ungrateful, and treacherous recipient of Noble's many kindnesses. |
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Overall, 39 per cent of shoppers admit they can be incredibly selfish and bad mannered out on the high street. |
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The licensed trade are self-righteous, self-obsessed and selfish in their opposition to a ban. |
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Why would he be selfish enough to kill himself and leave poor Delia with this terrible burden? |
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As he acknowledges, it was a charge that was sometimes made against him, and at one point he says, apropos of the great Australia batsman, that top players have to be selfish. |
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What should have been a moment of reckoning for a selfish, serial liar instead ended with us pitying him. |
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But then the act of listening to music is selfish, not communal. |
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Self-marriage is the ultimate brand extension of a self-obsessed, selfish populus. |
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Scrooge is still with us, not just in print but embodied in the cold hearts and selfish calculations of misanthropes everywhere. |
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She knew she was being selfish for accepting him, for making him pay for her folly, but she was simply not strong enough to refuse him a second time. |
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The role of Eva Phillips, the queen bee who achieves her selfish aims by stinging any rivals around her that might challenge her supremacy, seemed tailor-made for Crawford. |
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They get their comeuppance because they refuse to work together and are selfish people who cannot follow directions. |
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Although I'm occasionally selfish enough to want a picture of a nice mixed bag of fish at the end of the day, I never put grayling into a keepnet. |
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Upstarts, such as alpha-type bullies and despotic self-aggrandizers, are eventually restrained, as are overly selfish free-riders and odd-ball deviants. |
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They are enacting their own selfish wills, and teaching us to do the same. |
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The ailurophiles say that they do not anthropomorphize cats but, rather, that cats have such human qualities as they may condescend to adopt for their own selfish purposes. |
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Designed as the deliberative power, the Senate had become instead the negative power, the selfish power. |
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Who so stolid and selfish that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation's jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? |
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What if an affair is a process of positive self-discovery rather than selfish carnal impulses? |
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It was a cynical and duplicitous ploy to put a kindly face on a cruel and selfish policy. |
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I wish he'd spend less time with his friends and more time with me. Am I being selfish? |
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A good book, written by one person for any number of selfish and unselfish reasons, goes against the clockwork agenda so ascendant everywhere in the world. |
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Buddhist monks spend twenty years living ascetically and meditating for hours at a time before they presume to believe that they have conquered all selfish desires. |
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You are saved from a grilling, goading, or grounding for some overtly selfish actions. |
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He has been accused by fellow players of being a selfish prima donna on the basketball court and has had more than a few run-ins with his coach and NBA league officials. |
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The film depicted a rich and selfish woman stranded on a tropical island with her rugged lower-class manservant, their roles switched almost immediately upon being stranded. |
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Am I now expected to going back to rooting for this selfish lug? |
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Bad manners are the outward sign of a seriously selfish individual. |
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No quibbling over errant free throws or selfish shot selection. |
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She did love me, although I was so terribly selfish and awful to her. |
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He does so with an air of martyrdom about him, the selfish man. |
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Being self-centered and being selfish are not the same thing. |
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It was playground pettiness, grotesquely selfish folly that was not only self-destructive but bound to do serious damage to the interests of his team. |
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Call me selfish, but I wanted to leave my mark on a true original. |
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Although he had to admit it seemed selfish, he couldn't tell her. |
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His determination and the will to win make him selfish on the ice. |
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Sometimes I feel too selfish, and other times I feel too selfless. |
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Her girls, she says, are less selfish after their week away. |
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It becomes an authentic spiritual experience only if it is totally free from selfish and mercenary interests on the part of those who facilitate it. |
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Presidential assistants tend to view opposition as the product of selfish lobbyists and unimaginative bureaucrats. |
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I am a monstrosity, a selfish little girl who selected her own life instead of those that gave her life and those who meant almost everything to her. |
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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. |
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They are selfish, uncaring people whose sole concern is money. |
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Like Hobbes, Locke believed that human nature allowed people to be selfish. |
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The self-image is powered by the ignorant selfish ideas originally integrated by Satan into the physics of the brain. |
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Stand up to the blowhards and the demagogues who stoke division and hate for their own selfish ends. |
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An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting. |
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They teach that everyone is a separate entity, and you should look out for number one, creating a selfish meism society. |
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He juxtaposed the conflict between the good American devoted to civic virtue and the selfish provincial man. |
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They are selfish, self-centered, self-involved, and right in their way of thinking. |
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Another example is the assumption of narrowly selfish preferences versus a model that tests for selfish, altruistic, and cooperative preferences. |
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A home birth does not make you a lentil-weaving hippy or a dangerous, selfish nutter who is putting herself and her baby at risk. |
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There is no one as conceited, as lecturesome, as selfish, as mad about the theater as you. Nor is any man so talkative. |
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The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. |
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It only takes a few selfish and solitary grandstanders to undermine a culture of trust. |
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Each one grows as a little reminder of someone lost, not for selfish cheapskates to help themselves. |
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So, she can be forgiven for being a little selfish or tightfisted at times. |
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There were ugly scenes as selfish scavengers drained bowsers in Gloucestershire and crooks cashed in by selling on their supplies. |
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The only apparent function of retrotransposons, which are known as selfish DNA, is to make copies of themselves. |
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The ability to control selfish impulses in order to reject an unfair deal depends on a specific right brain area, a new study finds. |
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Being selfish in the true Randian sense is about promoting the Aristotelian concept of eudaimonia, or human flourishing. |
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They are loud and perpetually sticky and whiney and selfish. |
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I READ the article in the Mercury regarding yet another selfish concert-goer looking for a refund from the Town Hall for being asked to sit down. |
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He was a selfish, untalented and unprincipled man who rode roughshod over his mother. |
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That footballers are overpaid, underworked, selfish guys who care more about fancy cars than what's going on in the real world. |
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We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. |
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Fronting the group is Michael Cera as Jamie, an obsessional and irritatingly selfish character. |
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Writers, to varying degrees, criticized Thomas Hobbes' notions of a selfish humanity that requires a sovereign to rule over it. |
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The selfish, base, covetous, father-in-law was not at all desirous to have a highborn beggar and the posterity of a highborn beggar to maintain. |
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They stand back to make room for every rascal and demagogue who chooses to cloak his selfish deviltry under the veil of race pride. |
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Laozi used the term broadly with simplicity and humility as key virtues, often in contrast to selfish action. |
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Jane Austen's Emma illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism. |
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Despite the stereotype of an only child who is selfish, spoiled, and lonely, the positive effects of onlyhood may be stronger than the negative. |
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He said that, unfortunately, the mullahcracy is politicising religion to serve their selfish ends. |
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She denied that her offer to help was based on selfish motives. |
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Close behind William, another schoolboy, this time a fat and selfish one Billy Bunter, the fat owl of Greyfriars school was selfish, lazy and downright annoying. |
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No, you're not being selfish, but perhaps you're being a bit overdramatic. |
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Sloppy kissers are seen as inexperienced and in need of nurturing, while aggressive kissers give the impression that they might be selfish in bed. |
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We should pity all the sloppy kissers, who are seen as inexperienced and over eager, and those who are aggressive kissers are likely to be selfish lovers. |
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We talk about cyclists all the time in a derogative manner, but there are more mindless, selfish motorists who park on pavements anywhere and everywhere. |
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Furthermore, they argued, political divisiveness was also universal and inevitable because of selfish passions that were integral to human nature. |
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At the same time, I realize that eco-feminists who identify as pro-choice are not the selfish, evil people that some anti-abortionists take them for. |
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I asked that selfish wretch, Winterblossom, to walk down with me to view her distress, and the heartless beast told me he was afraid of infection! |
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If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish. |
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In a match against Espanyol on 10 January 2015, Bale was booed by a section of Madrid fans who adjudged him as being selfish in shooting for goal and not passing to Ronaldo. |
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Naylonfred had spoiled them rotten, making them selfish and demanding. |
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You can see a father's selfish genes at work in baby fat. Most mammals come into the world as skin and bones and quickly put on padding afterward. |
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Fireworks are now getting into the hands of under-age children, irresponsible youths and selfish adults who annoy neighbours, severely traumatise animals and damage property. |
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