Significats de supreme selfishness en anglès

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

It originates in the supreme selfishness of our natures-ourself-love

Wanted to see in her eyes the regret, the guilt over her supreme selfishness.

Thus supreme selfishness is synonymous with supreme egoism, a truth that can only be stated paradoxically.

It was the first time, in his supreme selfishness, he had taken the acolyte's feelings into account.

Louis the Fifteenth was balancing the great account of his life- alifeof luxury, voluptuousness, and supreme selfishness.

I saw the supreme selfishness of shutting her up on the desert, without any glimpse of the outer world.

There was in Mallow the glimmer of greatness, and only his supreme selfishness had made him what he was.

Or does my own joy result in such supreme selfishness that I am tempted to intrude it upon others?

There was a supreme selfishness in the way she had of perpetually harping upon her lack of love for him.

Certainly this conduct of the Hollanders was barbarism and supreme selfishness, if judged by the sounder political economy of our time.

Although it is a life of denial, he says it is also one of supreme selfishness - pursuing his own interest to extremes.

Peaceable, kindly, the sturdy undersized people of the outlands were driven to a supreme selfishness by reason of the conditions under which they lived.

He had behaved with supreme selfishness in the beginning, and afterwards with a weakness which would always make him writhe when he thought of it.

Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

"He was quite serious, nevertheless, and predicted that marriage would end our friendship, arguing that supreme happiness is but another term for supreme selfishness."