Acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity.
Sinônimos
Examples for "selflessness"
Examples for "selflessness"
1In return, K2 had required from them heroism and selflessness and responsibility.
2Jamaica owes you all a great debt of gratitude for your selflessness.
3But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it.
4Audrey's willing selflessness depleted her, and her neediness kept her coming back.
5But with startling selflessness Goyo does ultimately break through his protective carapace.
1Its actual meaning is 'a self-sacrifice for the common good.' She paused.
2But Miss Cornelia nipped the heroic attempt at self-sacrifice in the bud.
3Let the world know the heroism and the self-sacrifice of those men.
4Thus, the rising generation was reminded of the heroic deed of self-sacrifice.
5President Kennedy has frequently called on his countrymen for courage and self-sacrifice.
6Her office in life is to teach him the joy of self-sacrifice.
7We must act from cold reason even in the ardor of self-sacrifice.
8The Brigaders remain heroes of the left for their internationalism and self-sacrifice.
9He gave up the reins and, in his great self-sacrifice, passionately exclaimed:
10One orator after another rose and praised the self-sacrifice of the sailors.
11What seemed the levity of her desertion was the devotion of self-sacrifice.
12That's self-sacrifice, I suppose; but there must be some satisfaction in it.
13The latter had always been to her the symbol of complete self-sacrifice.
14Group-selection theories of individual self-sacrifice are always vulnerable to subversion from within.
15From the soil of tyranny sprang self-sacrifice, and daring for the Right.
16The struggle was soon over, and the impulse of self-sacrifice had conquered.
Translations for self-sacrifice