| His work was all-consuming, often at the expense of those he loved, and he pursued his ambitions ruthlessly and selfishly. |
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| Ironically, the point Williams was railing against was that all human behavior is selfishly motivated. |
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| Then you think about those people on the roads who selfishly block junctions, who cut you up at a roundabout, who use filter lanes to queue jump. |
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| Will they see us as greedy consumers, selfishly gobbling up the world's resources. |
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| Why are we so inconsistent, so irrational, so illogical and so selfishly shortsighted? |
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| They indulge themselves selfishly, sensually, with no thought of the consequences for us. |
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| In some situations it makes good sense, at least in the short term, to use violence and to behave selfishly, fearfully or vaingloriously. |
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| During the communal drug culture of the 1960s, 'to bogart' meant to selfishly smoke a joint without sharing. |
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| Unions that back them are selfishly using the political process to enrich themselves at others' expense. |
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| Please don't sacrifice our children's access for tomorrow by selfishly breaking the law today. |
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| Such exhortations are the railings of hypocrites who selfishly skewer non-believers with the power they all-the-time possess. |
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| He is right to point out that our response to national disasters is often selfishly inappropriate. |
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| I hoped I hadn't kept her from something by selfishly making her talk with me tonight instead of on Friday. |
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| The process is driven by an elite group of territorial politicians who don't want to share power, but to take it and selfishly carve it up. |
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| Others will selfishly hog a space all day and not give fellow drivers a fair chance to park conveniently. |
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| They also often act more selfishly and unheroically than the more likable characters. |
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| He published by subscription a small edition of his father's works in 1747, but selfishly and unfilially omitted several of the best of them. |
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| However, some insects selfishly lay their own eggs in empty cells rather than taking care of the queen's eggs. |
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| Do you understand that this you cannot see while your senses are sick and your spirit selfishly isolated from the path. |
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| Britain's feral youths are brutishly and selfishly refusing to conform to stereotype. |
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| Nevertheless Apple is dumping Google, selfishly putting its feud with Google ahead of the needs of its customers. |
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| But be advised that the power to realize your wishes is lost if they are too selfishly motivated. |
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| Now, Tiger is selfishly willing to embarrass his dead father to rescue his reputation. |
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| At a time of financial crisis this can be selfishly used to justify the argument for helping our own people before others. |
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| Today, instead of eliminating the misery that exists everywhere, man selfishly attempts to use it to his benefit. |
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| In this mall is the local passport office, and selfishly I'd like to point out my constituency office. |
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| On this steep slope, can they achieve happiness? Will they find their yearn for peace, or the greatness each selfishly wishes for? |
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| If individuals behave carelessly and selfishly, the way is left open to collective careless and selfish behaviour. |
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| She will also be at the start of learning how to help others, but at 8 be more likely to operate selfishly than think of the needs of others. |
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| We must not allow ourselves to fish selfishly or to hunt them down to extinction. |
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| But if only we could think less selfishly about the present and more about the far future then we may just save our sanity. |
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| The drive to accumulate can be used to better human existence, not just selfishly, for conspicuous over consumption, self-indulgence or exhibitionism. |
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| And wherever they are found, they lead groups to separate themselves from others, to selfishly acquire power and wealth, and to become engrossed in materialistic pleasures. |
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| If, selfishly, we create walls between these entities that we have not created, we harm our people who, moreover, do not hesitate to ignore the artificial borders and cross them without any restraint. |
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| You and I are not called to live selfishly, but to live for others. |
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| As it turns out, they do so selfishly, obnoxiously, and despicably. |
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| They succumbed to infidelity, remained materialistic, and acted selfishly. |
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| Those who have spent their money selfishly on themselves will I judge, for the blessings of this earth are to give to the poor and to serve those in need! |
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| The eastern Central European markets are said to be so open as a result of the convergence agreements that western businessmen might selfishly wonder why enlargement is still required. |
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| When individual birds act selfishly, it results in an equitable sharing of heat as they huddle in ways that keep them toastiest. |
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| We should not act selfishly when people are dying in the war. |
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| And whatever world leaders come up with, their solutions are hardly likely to be vote-grabbers as we all selfishly hang on to the dreams of lifestyles promoted by advertisers. |
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| But it is also the hour of danger and of menace for the unwary and the unready, for the ambitious, the ignorant, and for these who selfishly seek the Way and who refuse to tread the path of service with pure motive. |
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| Bridge has beneficially expanded my acquaintance with charming, intelligent widows in their seventies and eighties, but I selfishly wonder what I'll do for partners when I'm the age they are now. |
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| We knew the consequences, yet selfishly and indecisively, we did nothing. |
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| Jiracek runs at an exposed Poland defence and finds Baros, who selfishly and wastefully shoots straight at Tyton from 25 yards out when he had team-mates to his left and right. |
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| Selfishly speaking, I am almost tempted to let this state of affairs pass unremarked. |
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| Selfishly I assured myself with the knowledge that Toby had created his own mess in the past, and that if my plan was to miscarry, it would simply be a nasty case of karma. |
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