Word: selfishnesses
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...imbued with parental ideals of the "perfect marriage" with a Prince Charming, of a woman who grows to realize that such false expectations breed only hurt and anger. Suffering the conflict between living her own life and playing the role her mother has outlined for her, Braudy feels simultaneously selfish and guilty, angry and deceptive. Explaining her discordant emotions, she writes "We are becoming more equal, and as an emerging equal, I displease him. Feeling his resentment, I'm angry, yet I worry that I am hogging the spotlight in an unwifely manner. I feel selfish...
...POSSIBLE RESIGNATION: I have not lost hope that we can bring Lebanon out of this difficulty. I have made up my mind that I will do everything possible to succeed in the task. Resignation would be the easy way, the selfish way, and I have never been a selfish...
Today's religious renewals often do little more than provide selfish personal kicks and highs. The humbler churches agree with Walt Kelly's Pogo, who sounded like a biblical theologian when he said, "We have faults which we have hardly used yet." Nevertheless, Jews and Christians still see the height of prophetic faith in Micah's command to "do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." A hundred million American Christians still see God as "the Giver of all goodness," through his gift of grace in Jesus Christ. But Jesus also made...
Some observers think Shanker is under attack because he has done his job too well. "Once [a union chief] gets to be magnanimous and takes the broad public point of view, he's defeated," says Kheel. "Every leader of a special-interest group is basically selfish. That's why he is the leader...
...selfish good" Mansfield was referring to the desires of some professors to stock the department with professors of their own scholarly persuasion or perhaps to judge candidates on the basis of personal or political biases. "It's silly to deny that politics has any effect," Mansfield said, "but overall the process is remarkably straight and fair...