On Dec. 6, Ms. James quit, leaving her critics - whom she described as self-serving bullies - with no excuses for further discord. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Even the title seems self-serving, particularly when viewed in the light of an interview Michelle granted Vogue magazine in 2007. From Wordnik.com. [The Obama Diaries] Reference
Some historians say they are just a self-serving tract. From Wordnik.com. [Nazis And The Nature Of Evil] Reference
The president abhors leaks, especially self-serving ones. From Wordnik.com. [Chemistry In The War Cabinet] Reference
Moreover, Morgan's code was controversial and self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [J. P. Morgan Rises Again] Reference
Many American analysts think this is a self-serving fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [Mirages Within Mirages] Reference
The book will be dismissed as self-serving, and it certainly is. From Wordnik.com. [See Dick Run The Country] Reference
Some objections are self-serving; others raise legitimate issues. From Wordnik.com. [Salesmanship Isn't Leadership] Reference
Many observers (including me) find this defense to be self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Saved the World] Reference
But on their own pay, there's a widespread and self-serving silence. From Wordnik.com. [Welfare For Capitalists] Reference
The HMOs 'own happy-patient surveys are almost entirely self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [Is Your Hmo Ok--Or Not?] Reference
No wonder Saif al-Islam is so comfortable with self-serving cynicism. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics of Blackmail] Reference
The silence defines Washington's self-serving and hypocritical "morality.". From Wordnik.com. [A Sad Primer In Hypocrisy] Reference
Is the international NGO system becoming a self-serving coterie of elitists?. From Wordnik.com. [Whose Cause Is It, Anyway?] Reference
History shows that women in power can be as ruthless and self-serving as men. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman’s Place Is In The Church] Reference
A fan's love is intense but ultimately self-serving — we love athletes who win. From Wordnik.com. [They’re Not Role Models] Reference
If the past is any guide, O. J.'s tone will be more self-serving than confessional. From Wordnik.com. [Giving O.J. A Platform] Reference
People do not like to be disabused of familiar, self-serving, and satisfying ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Book Excerpt: 'Untruth: Why The Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong'] Reference
Some groused that Winfrey's choice was self-serving, believing she owned the film rights. From Wordnik.com. [A 'Beloved' Author Goes To The Movies] Reference
In truth, that's a rather self-serving notion generated by baseball fanatics like myself. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: How Do You Spell Relief?] Reference
What fires parents 'fanaticism is their self-serving desire to announce their own success. From Wordnik.com. [Prestige Panic] Reference
It may involve finessing the truth or outright lying, but the purpose is always self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [A Cure For Common B.S.] Reference
Yet the other, more sinister, perspective on Barry isn't merely his own self-serving defense. From Wordnik.com. [Persecution Or Prosecution?] Reference
We in the media bless this process by treating much of the self-serving rhetoric with undeserved seriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Political Truth Serum] Reference
Political candidates routinely indulge in exaggeration, pandering, inconsistency and self-serving obscuration. From Wordnik.com. [The Obama Delusion] Reference
The rest of her new book is self-serving, preoccupied with revenge, light on ideas, and full of contradictions. From Wordnik.com. [The ‘Palinization’ Of Palin] Reference
The tone of the English-language "highlights" provided to the press is so self-serving it's almost embarrassing. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: A (Terrorist's) Letter from Iraq] Reference
Let's note the obvious: all surplus projections are iffy, and each campaign's numbers are probably self-serving. From Wordnik.com. [Candidate For The Status Quo] Reference
Many Pakistanis skeptically see this next round of talks as perhaps yet another self-serving exercise on her part. From Wordnik.com. [Crackdown] Reference
And all these competing claims suffer from the self-serving assumption that the underlying surpluses actually occur. From Wordnik.com. [The Deficit In Leadership] Reference
For me, these self-serving simplifications and exaggerations have been a fertile field for reporting and commentary. From Wordnik.com. [Book Excerpt: 'Untruth: Why The Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong'] Reference
And at the same time, leaders can underscore more basic, if not self-serving, virtues -- like obedience to authority. From Wordnik.com. [A Smoke Screen] Reference
Government is supposed to put a brake on cynical, self-serving calculation, especially at times of great danger and confusion. From Wordnik.com. [War and Deliverance] Reference
We repeat this mantra of self-serving paranoia as we put our patients through paces that frequently serve only our own interests. From Wordnik.com. [We Have Lost Our Humanity] Reference
The real meaning is not the survival of the strongest, or of the most brutal or the most self-serving, or anything of that nature. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Weep for Pakistan?] Reference
Instead it usually comes across as self-indulgent, self-serving and lacking in honesty about having been the cause of the situation. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Hayward's Three Big Mistakes Every CEO Can Learn From] Reference
The idea that Peru is a well-endowed country whose riches have been stolen by a corrupt clique of self-serving crooks is widely held. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of the Caudillo] Reference
It has somehow remained a bulwark in a nasty world of inexorable lobbying, knee-jerk anti-intellectualism and self-serving politicking. From Wordnik.com. [KEEPING THE ROBES CLEAN] Reference
Republicans expressed self-serving and synthetic indignation over Kerry's flirtation with the idea of delayed acceptance of the nomination. From Wordnik.com. [KERRY DROPS A GOOD IDEA] Reference
How sad it is that we have declined so much culturally that we can actually reduce pregnancy to such a mundane and self-serving definition. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: A Generation Hits a Major Milestone] Reference
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