Word: selfish
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...Keegan: "We were walking down the street together. People who once would come up and hug Ira crossed the street and averted their eyes... He looked at me, sad, and said, 'I'm not going to be able to be Ira Einhorn now.' And I realized he was a selfish, arrogant bastard...
...Pinter's new theater plays for 21 years, from 1962 until the two fell out over what Pinter felt were unfriendly observations about him in Hall's published diaries (they have since been reconciled), loves that unpredictability about his characters. "They are mysteries." says Hall, "selfish, outrageous, predatory, often likable - just like us. Their mystery is our mystery." Adds Duncan: "He's not in the business of giving answers. He understands at a very profound level how complex human beings are, and he's not looking to explain that...
While both stances are consistent with Kissinger’s brand of realism, intended to prioritize peace over justice, Hitchens sees more selfish motivations...
...Even here in England, our closest allies feel that America often acts like a selfish child. Americans never gave due credit to the Russians, British and others without whom the Allies could never have won two World Wars, they say. Now America is reluctant to put its soldiers under any other nation’s command, in NATO or in the UN—though of course the U.S. is quick to demand control of other nations’ forces...
...arrogantly believe that we can never fall from our superpower position, that will only hasten the inevitable. And when America turns to other nations for help, they will be unlikely to show much sympathy if they only remember a selfish, self-aggrandizing nation...