He blessed the dear, selflessinstincts of her heart, his eyes moist and tender.
It was a big, kind, selfless tenderness that grew from day to day.
Nevertheless, glancing at his troubled face, she was suddenly moved by perhaps the most selfless impulse she had ever felt in her life.
Her gaze lingered on the fair hair flying in the March breeze, above a face selfless as that of some young prophet.
Hard on themselves, selfless in abnegation, but not understanding that the dearest gift they can bestow on a woman is the right for her to efface herself, the right for her to be the giver of love, of consolation, of sacrifice.
Can you conceive that such selfless affection as the older man bore to the younger can live for a quarter of a century and die in one hour?
She smoothed his hair as a mother does to an afflicted child; the motherly instinct was up in arms now, even fighting the womanly, the passionate instinct of a less selfless love.
Regarding the short film of the Master, for which, as well as for the record of His voice, I am deeply indebted to the selfless efforts and services of my dear brother, Mr. Roy C.
That you have been wounded in this noble and selfless enterprise, is to me a subject both of pride and terrifying dismay.
Mrs. Trevor accounted him the most devoted and selfless friend that woman ever had.
Selfless to the last, she thought but for my loneliness.
All selfless people suffer from indolence when only their own interests are in question; they require a strong incentive from without to arouse them.
He never did think of himself--the most selfless man alive; and she, alas!
Out of his complete ruin he arose joyless, hopeless, but great in a tenderness so vast and selfless that it almost took the place of what he had lost.
For, like her mother, she had the egoism that is more selfless than most people's altruism--the divine egoism that is genius.
It made her own problems and disappointments seem insignificant to think of the gigantic odds with which that great being contended all his life, and to selfless ends.
To be egotistically selfless is the paradox of the inferno.
This communion, however, is purely spiritual in character, and is conditioned upon the disinterested and selfless love of the individuals for each other.
I am looking forward with the greatest interest, to the time when your high hopes will have been fully realized, your plans fulfilled and your selfless efforts crowned with glorious success.
If it had not been for that--that long selflessinterval .
When I thought about myself at all, it seemed to me that this selfless and strenuous interval was the final severance from my old life.
Oh, that was a mission to thrill and inspire one, to move one to high and selfless endeavor!
Thus Sheila now looked backward along the years of her marriage and saw how Ted had failed her in understanding, in generosity, in any selfless consideration and love.
It was a strange place for the birth of a man's soul, but as Frank Ravenel read the letter a tenderness, a selfless tenderness, for the sad little writer of it came to him.
He felt how untrustworthy he had been, how undeserving of the selfless devotion which Percy was showing him even now.
His selfless love for the girl touched her more than she had thought it possible for anything now to touch her worldly heart.
To Lincoln in his selfless temper, it was Only a detail in his problem of getting the army into action.
If this was really true, the selfless man would not hesitate to' require of Blair the same sort of sacrifice he would, in other conditions, require of himself.
The selfless man, by dealing with others in the same extraordinary way in which he deals with himself, may easily under the pressure of extreme conditions become impersonal in his thinking upon duty.
Lincoln decided to operate on him by one of those astounding moves which to the selfless man seemed natural enough, by which the ordinary politician was always hopelessly mystified.
A selfless man, he may be truly called through months of torment which made him over from a theoretical to a practical statesman.
Again, he was the selfless man, his sensibilities lost in the purpose he sought to establish.
I believe he was completelyselfless about the matter.
But some element, generally that of the selfless tenderness for which his heart craved, was lacking in the unlawful loves to which he considered himself compelled to confine his quest.
And yet it was then, during those days, that Berwick had sworn to himself that his love was pure and selfless in its essence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "selfless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
