Word: selfishnesses
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...Obama has claimed that people who oppose higher taxes are selfish and equated paying taxes to donating to charity. America is not about equality of outcome, comrade. It's about equality of opportunity. Jim Gleason, Mandan, North Dakota...
...colorful way to describe someone, when practically every character uses the expression, the words become tired and uninteresting (and not particularly descriptive, either).“Ball busters” notwithstanding, Cappellani has an acute sense of humor when it comes to creating his characters. From the selfish and manipulative Betty to the self-serious and love-tortured Cagnatto, the people who populate “Sicilian Tragedee” are amusing, if not always endearing. Cappellani’s “Sicilian Tragedee” is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy...
...Savior,” a song about soured relationships, Tim McIlrath’s lyrics are a swirl of desperation, uncertainty, and dissatisfaction. Throughout “Appeal to Reason,” Rise Against wield their instruments as weapons against those who are squandering tomorrow for their selfish desires today. Particularly of note is McIlrath, who rides the band’s layered guitar melodies with confident vocals and throat-shredding screams when their energy crests. However, the production on “Appeal to Reason” serves to undermine not only the intensity with which Rise Against...
...woman I saw in Mumbai was so poor that there wasn’t some disintegrating color on her toes, some trace of shimmer. Personal grooming, which had always struck me as a waste of time, took on a new character. Getting your nails done wasn’t selfish, it was a kind of neighborhood beautification. I was living in a city of 40 million filthy, scuffed, aching feet, but all across Mumbai women were getting pedicures?on Malabar Hill, in the narrow slum alleys of Dharavi, women were getting their toes painted, and now it was my turn...
...dead and for the safety of all. That sort of bigger, more compassionate plea is not quite as automatic this time around. Is it all right to be straightforward in your imploring - to beseech God on behalf of you and your family's personal fortune - or is that somehow selfish? And is that all there is? Or is this prayer, too, expected somehow to encompass a bigger and more compassionate principle...