Word: selfless
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...considered a dangerous radical and all the potent forces of conventionalized prejudice united to convict him of a crime which was actually performed by a gangster. The injustice which society foisted upon the father makes an outcast of the Hamlet-like son, forces him into a relentless, selfless pursuit for revenge; not for the joy of revenge itself but for the vindication of his faith in the truth and justice which must be if existence is to justify the struggle. His quest leads him to the tenement home of the Esdrases cowering beneath the symbolic shadow of the East Side...
John Douglas Merrill: During many years of selfless labour a patient and devoted interpreter of this University to the alumni...
...said, seemed to expect him to come on the platform in a baseball suit. Albert Spalding packed up his violin, went to Russia, made his name there. But throughout their careers Spalding and Gabrilowitsch have had one rare quality in common: no amount of success has spoiled their selfless, unaffected devotion to music...
...Among the human values thus created science ranks with art and religion. In its selfless pursuit of truth, in its vision of order and beauty, it partakes of the quality of both. More and more it is beginning to make a profound esthetic and religious appeal to thinking people. In deed, it may fairly be said that science is perhaps the clearest revelation of God to our age. Science is at last coming into its own as one of the supreme goods of the human race...
...looked as though Lucile Lingard (Lily Cahill), who found romance and a young English poet while visiting Europe, might let Miss Crothers down. But when Lucile, and later the poet, return to the solidarity of the homeland, and when Lucile's husband so patently demonstrates his "great, selfless love," the affair subsides...