Word: selfishly
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...little girl loses the money. It has fallen into a sewer grate, tantalizingly out of reach. In dramatizing her efforts to get the money back, the film shows that no one can want anything as much as a child does. No one can be so desperate, endearing, selfish. Razieh is a maven of curb-level politics, a born haggler. She'd be a demon at any yard sale...
...ephemeral needs and self-interests, I can assure you that the recent restoration of memorial Hall will be re-evaluated in the most uncharitable light: it will be seen as suspect, of Harvard not interested in the sacred memory of her selfless deceased but simply in her own selfish desires, in square-footage and "usable" space and not in cherished alumni, noble goals, beauty or even architectural preservation...
...have friends and roommates who are shamelessly out of touch with what is going on in the real world. Some other students I know even flaunt their ignorance, as if their selfish insularity were a personal point of pride. I do not understand how people can play hours of video games without knowing who is running for president of the United States or the shocking significance of the federal debt in their lives...
...their generation, Paul and Carol had lived with other people, but those relationships didn't work out. This time they hope to make it last, even while knowing that more than half of all marriages now end in divorce. It is not that people their age are especially selfish or difficult as companions; but they do have a strong sense of self and wish to delineate their own lives. Some of Carol's girlfriends tried to talk her out of taking Paul's name. Marriage, yes; but not too early or all-embracing...
...only talking Super Bowl, they were talking '72, the year the Dolphins went undefeated. But beginning Oct. 8, Miami lost six of its next eight games, then had to win three of its last four to barely make the play-offs. There was plenty of finger pointing all around--selfish players, ill-prepared assistant coaches, the Fates--but the blame fell to Shula. Never mind the Don Shula Expressway, the Don Shula Steak House, Don Shula's Hotel and Golf Club. In three separate polls in the Miami Herald, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and the Palm Beach Post...