Word: selfless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lessons of Jan Schaffer's life are powerful and enduring ones, and even after her death, Ryan feels her influence in everything he does. Above all, he looks to her as an example of selfless determination and courage. He remarks that "every goal she ever had was put aside for us, she lived for us...she lived through...
...white Atlanta's visceral fear of Freaknic and urban youths' self-centered apathy in the same breath. Often Wolfe comes across as a bit too cynical; his book virtually ignores (or denies the existence of) the better aspects of humanity. No one in A Man in Full evinces any selfless emotion, for instance, but only a desire for power...
...year's best albums and inscribed as the Blonde on Blonde of the '90s by producer Joe Boyd. Certainly, this is not to say her straightforward narrative style somehow mirrors Bob Dylan's layered poetry; rather, both song-writers are not so self-absorbed as they are selfless...
Today, seeing that this might be the last opportunity to honor Mandela while in office, the administration chose wisely to hold a special ceremony in the Yard. Thousands will gather to celebrate a man of selfless and courageous choices--a man whose visit should summon each of us to consider our great opportunity and, indeed, our duty to improve the world around...
...often effective way, as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake, a technicality of democratic punctilio. And so, for nearly 20 years, Anti-President Carter has circled the world embodying hyperactive paradox: insufferable self-absorption and self-righteousness in the service of admirably selfless causes...