Word: selfishnesses
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...pits the peasants of Tenorio Viejo, who want irrigation for their lands, against the Don, who wants lace for his coats and whose income is peasants' rents. The peasants are lovable, clumsily funny, tragically simple. But there is nothing lovable about Miss Warner's Juan, imperious, selfish, ruthless, clever...
...motive for this change is by no means found in a selfish desire to assure Yale a more creditable showing," the "News" asserts. "Rather it is based on a frank recognition of the impossibility of asking any team, no matter how strong, to face a schedule composed solely of major opponents. Then, too, any move in this direction is a healthy step towards the goal of de-emphasising athletics...
...opportunities of growth than that Duke University will launch a crusade against the use of tobacco." He points out that Harvard's closest relatives are its financial sources, which to a large degree have originated from Boston's State Street; that such dominance tends to develop a limited, even selfish, point of view right in the Yard...
...able to frighten sinners by giving terrifying descriptions of Hell. Nowadays, they make the world sound as bad as Hell once did. In Luckypenny, Bruce Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle) demonstrates this development with a sermon thriller hinging on three themes : 1) that "rich men have been too selfish," which in turn makes the poor "unable to govern their greed," 2) that "mechanical invention has progressed out of all ratio to spiritual perfection," 3) that "men no longer believe...
...Many of us left school thoroughly selfish individuals, totally incapable of seeing how our manners, personality, etc. affected other people...