Less selfishnesswas manifested among the people, and a better spirit prevailed.
While the sympathies of these good people were, without question, given in sincerity, nevertheless there was more or less selfishness connected with their action.
Francis Xavier was marred by the narrowness and selfishness and unchristian spirit of European traders.
She was simply herself, a frivolous woman, with a strong will, and a Chinese wall of selfishness and self-complacence built up on all sides of her.
She believed that Alice's selfishness and morbid sentiment were equal to either.
Art becoming all the time more and more exclusive, satisfying continually a smaller and smaller circle of people, becoming more and more selfish, has gone crazy, since insanity is only selfishnessreaching to its last degree.
A frightful selfishness hurried me on, while my heart was poisoned with remorse.
Is it selfishness on the part of the French which causes them to adopt towards Germany a policy of vengeance that prevents them receiving the Reparations that they so sorely need?
If it is the calculatingselfishness of 'realist' statesmen that thus produces impoverishment and bankruptcy, the calculation would seem to be defective.
Let us consider what will be the best interests of your ward,' is it really open to the first party to explain in a paroxysm of moral indignation: 'You are making a shameful and disgraceful appeal to selfishness and avarice?
Others write in much the same strain that selfishness and materialism have reconquered the world.
Can it be a selfishness which ruins and starves us all?
But we ought to go beyond that selfishness which regards only our own necessities and remember that the negro has a right to fight for his freedom, and that he will be all the more fit to enjoy his new destiny by helping to achieve it.
We renounce it for a time that we may resist a power that threatens to destroy it altogether and put selfishness and cruelty on the throne of the world.
There is but one other system to be tried, and that is the cross of Christ--the system that is not to be built upon selfishness nor upon blood, not upon personal interest, but upon love.
Brethren," said Robertson, "that which is built on selfishnesscannot stand.
The gospel of love must embody itself in act no less manifestly thanselfishness and brutality have expressed themselves in the terrible scenes that the world has witnessed.
These hopes must have religion beneath them if they are to endure and be realized in spite of their powerful foes, the fears and hatreds which materialism and selfishness create.
We see nothing, however, to warrant us in looking for such a happy consummation, while we contemplate the multiplied divisions of the Christian world, perpetuated as they are by the selfishness of human nature.
Will you suffer your convenience or your selfishness to come into conflict with the claims of your Maker?
Such selfishness is idolatry, and is the very spirit that governs the carnal mind.
Each, probably, had his selfishness of some kind; but only one, in whom it took the form of covetousness, thought fit to inquire what was to be his recompense beyond the mere pay for this uncovenanted service.
Selfishness is "cotton in the ears against human groans," and excuses itself in its own eyes by saying that nothing can be said to great suffering to relieve it.
In his artistic nature there existed a real mixture of selfishness and fantasy with genuine tenderness, well-nigh feminine, which demanded love and warmth.
These words grossly characterize the incarnate selfishness of men.
They differ radically from those men who are actuated by petty motives of selfishness and fear of competition, and therefore try to prevent women from obtaining higher education and from gaining admission to the better paid professions.
I almost fear for my own happiness; that my selfishness in yielding to it has blinded me to what was going on with the others.
I can tell you why he left his wife -- from pure selfishnessand nothing else whatever.
Sometimes it is not selfishness which makes home life a failure, but the not having "among least things, An undersense of greatest.
But in all other respects his selfishness is strikingly prominent.
She will tire so soon, and his selfishness has no limits.
It may indeed be truly said that, after all, human selfishness is much the same as it ever was; that luxury still drowns sympathy; that riches and poverty have still their old estranging influence.
He would like to see his wisdom justifying itself, his vanity triumphant, his selfishness achieving its end; and he thinks that his cravings are being satisfied.
We are living in a time of intense bitterness and selfishness and sordid greed.
If you are living your life in selfishness, however respectable that selfishness may be, you are just the same kind of fool and just as great a fool as is this rich man of the story.
Even the most evilly-disposed selfishness has to recognise this when it seeks the power to do evil; for it cannot ignore truth and yet be strong.
Man's selfishness is a beginning to see some connection, some purpose in life; and to act in accordance with its dictates requires self-restraint and regulation of conduct.
So in order to claim the aid of truth, selfishness has to be unselfish to some extent.
A short triumph will be followed by a deep mortification, and the selfishness of their aims defeats itself.
Politeness, being based upon real kindness of heart, cannot exist where there is selfishness or brutality to warp its growth.
In every case, selfishness is the root of all ill-breeding, and it is never more conspicuously displayed than in traveling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selfishness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: avarice; ego; egotism; greed; individualism; interest; narcissism; selfishness
