But the words were not spoken yet; instead, he found himself talking egoistically on and on. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
In this case even an egoistically motivated person would help in the high empathy/easy escape condition. From Wordnik.com. [Empathy] Reference
The objection, however, lies precisely in this attempt to explain my concern for my beloved egoistically. From Wordnik.com. [Love] Reference
Think about it before ramblling stupidities… he egoistically took an INNOCENT life and injured many others. From Wordnik.com. [Kimveer Gill’s blog « raincoaster] Reference
I've been very busy with my business, and I didn't want to hand this over to someone else, so I egoistically kept the artworks in crates, in the warehouse. From Wordnik.com. [ARTINFO: Keeping It Real: A Q&A With Greek Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos] Reference
So that house could have had 50 people and all of them could be very egoistically/individually centered on the needs of themselves as an individual rather than the needs of the others. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Off: The Happening - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net] Reference
Each individual performs its special task for its own benefit and for the weal of all; each possesses an equal right to share in the prosperity of the whole community so long as it acts altruistically as well as egoistically. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
"But is it right for anyone to seclude himself so egoistically from all that is going on in the world?" asked Janina. From Wordnik.com. [Komediantka. English] Reference
"Speaking egoistically, being able to have the players here is not a negative thing," commented the Brazilian coach to Milan Channel. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Sports - Top News] Reference
Which of us is proof against the temptation of making a display of magnanimity, or of playing egoistically with another devoted heart?. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories] Reference
The consciousness of the contradiction between what is desired as a rational end and what is pursued egoistically cannot be born in him. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
If this passion was strong enough to deal, if I may use the term, anti-egoistically, it can be discovered only through the study of its possessor. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
If someone argue egoistically that we don't want more of our boys to die - let more of the ragheads die instead - and maybe a few of those pesty Europeans - that is a sure way to get known as a coward. From Wordnik.com. [TPMCafe] Reference
It egoistically, and always intelligently, "discusses" with its listener his or her feelings in the wake of personal failure and personal triumph, from the lowest depths of despair to the highest heights of happy or triumphant fulfillment. From Wordnik.com. [Beethoven the Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words]
Further, conscience tells us that to conduct oneself economically is not to conduct oneself egoistically; that even the most morally scrupulous man must conduct himself usefully (economically), if he does not wish to be inconclusive and, therefore, not truly moral. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
I am quite egoistically hoping that Dozois & al. will always have sufficient quality choices to pick for their Year’s Best anthologies. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Three « Whatever] Reference
But I see this observation as producing only tragic awareness- I wouldn’t hate or despise a person who is acting egoistically to preserve their own life at my expense, altho’ I would oppose them and most likely be extremely towards them emotionally. From Wordnik.com. [In which commentary becomes copy-and-paste] Reference
Finally, if the pharmacy, open to all comers, was the spot where he displayed his pride, the Capharnaum was the refuge where, egoistically concentrating himself, Homais delighted in the exercise of his predilections, so that Justin's thoughtlessness seemed to him a monstrous piece of irreverence, and, redder than the currants, he repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
Finally, if the pharmacy, open to all comers, was the spot where he displayed his pride, the Capharnaum was the refuge where, egoistically concentrating himself, Homais delighted in the exercise of his predilections, so that Justin’s thoughtlessness seemed to him a monstrous piece of irreverence, and, redder than the currants, he repeated — “Yes, from the Capharnaum!. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Bovary] Reference
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