Concern for your own interests and welfare.
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Examples for "egoism "
Examples for "egoism "
1 It was an ideal style to promote a policy of 'sacred egoism ' .
2 For us the future means egoism ; further than that we cannot see.
3 He hated them all; he felt himself crushed by this universal egoism .
4 The magnificent egoism of mankind in love struck her as distinctly diverting.
5 The girl found his incredible egoism at once amusing and extremely exasperating.
1 A characteristic of pathological liars is undoubtedly a deep-set egocentrism , as Risch states.
2 Meanwhile, the egocentrism gene now lying dormant is sure to spring back to life.
3 It was not a dream that needed interpretation, not a misty plunge into oneiromancy or egocentrism .
4 Individuals high in primary psychopathy exhibited cognitive egocentrism , whereas individuals low in primary psychopathy did not.
5 Probably the force which caused this is egocentrism .
1 Working in mutual self - interest the world community would have achieved Sustainable Growth.
2 Against our nature, self - interest has been given too high a moral priority.
3 The WTO talks, it said, have been driven by power and self - interest .
4 Global alliances can't be constructed on the basis of narrow national self - interest .
5 Why are our MPs putting blatant self - interest ahead of the Brexit vote?
1 Pessimism, cynicism, and self - centeredness can take hold as the chances of marrying narrow.
2 Emphasize his egotism and self - centeredness as they start off for the golf links.
3 But with the self - centeredness of the body-obsessed, the scale in my mind never sleeps.
4 He is pulled out of self - centeredness , while shouting for another.
5 Our carelessness, our self - centeredness , had wrecked those chocolates, made one fine mess of them all.
1 We find self - concern and some concern for others, but not respect.
2 From her present bearing I arrived at some gauge of her self - concern , her self-respect.
3 Knowledge is possible when you can transcend self - concern .
4 Of self - concern will tarnish my discerning need
5 But suddenly he was preoccupied with self - concern .
6 Yet, physical self - concern was buried under a bitterness that engulfed him like the stifling vapor of a boiling pit.
7 No wonder Rene's scowling expression changed to one of abject self - concern when the priest's name was suddenly connected with his mood.
8 It would not necessarily mean the end of unspoken emotions or self - concern ; it might not even be the end of social embarrassment.
9 Was not his mind elevated a thousand degrees beyond sense, carnal reasons, fleshly love, self - concerns , and the desires of embracing temporal things?
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Translations for self-concern