Blinking at the ludicrousness and self-interestedness of that statement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Internet] Reference

The anomaly, then—as Weber recognized—is the self-interestedness of the economy, not the anti-selfishness of the other spheres of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger Koppl - The Austrian Economists] Reference

The movement for limits — a Madisonian reform to alter the dynamic of interestedness that inevitably animates politics — was surging until four months after Republicans took control of the House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congressional Evolution] Reference

However, through all the rigid discipline the little girl retained her natural buoyancy of childhood, the spontaneous interestedness, the cheerfulness and animation, which were a part of her goodly heritage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'] Reference

This sickness, which was the greatest of calamities to the pagans, was but an exercise and trial to the Christians, who showed, on that occasion, how contrary the spirit of charity is to the interestedness of self love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

Conservatism argues, as did the Founders, that self-interestedness is universal among individuals, but the dignity of individuals is bound up with the exercise of self-reliance and personal responsibility pursuing one's interests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservatism vs. Liberalism] Reference

Yet to a man without ambition or interestedness, politicians are canaille.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

His mean self-interestedness and his false vehemence of passion had disastrous results.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse of the Department] Reference

His mean self - interestedness and his false vehemence of passion had disastrous results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parisians in the Country] Reference

I think it was the clearness and understanding in them, and a sort of great interestedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White People] Reference

People are your friends from pure friendship and love, not from sponging self-interestedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Brilliant Career] Reference

"Take into account the skill of forgers and the interestedness of apologists and calumniators.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

The GeneraVs laudable Caution, and dutiful Dis - interestedness of his Brother, the Marquis Wellesley.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the campaigns of the British forces in Spain and Portugal : undertaken to relieve those countries from the French usurpation : comprehending memoirs of the operations of this interesting war : characteristic reports of the Spanish and Portuguese troops, and illustrative anecdotes of distinguished military conduct in individuals, whatever their rank in the Army] Reference

"But if you do enjoy a glass of fermented grapes from time to time, you might be interestedness this:".    From Wordnik.com.  [www.buzz.mn -] Reference

There's a selfishness to it, a self-interestedness, despite Cameron's grandstanding about a "big society".    From Wordnik.com.  [www.mentallyinteresting.org.uk | The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive] Reference

If you happen to have a empty-handed presume grading, you might put on looking interestedness debt reduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masters Finance] Reference

Once immersed in a political party it is very difficult to disengage oneself and show genuine dis-interestedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times.] Reference

But despite the apparent self-interestedness of the solo form, Felder is actually very empowering of his audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few.".    From Wordnik.com.  [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference

But if you do enjoy a glass of fermented grapes from time to time, you might be interestedness this: bill would allow liquor stores to open Sundays.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.buzz.mn -] Reference

But the world seems to allow that their universal attachment and submission was universal interestedness; there has not been published a single encomium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

Thus, Palingenesis knows how to be the victim, how to be the make-believe triumphant conqueror-hero, and how to be the ruthless denizen of its own self-interestedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference

"We also know we should never again have to face potential calamity because of reckless speculation ... and shortsightedness and self-interestedness from a few," Obama said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reuters: Top News] Reference

These are attachments that depend on sentiment rather than on interest, and which are as much purer and holier, as virtuous sentiment is purer and holier than worldly interestedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France]

Coupled with the failure to prove either interestedness or lack of independence, the Court dismissed with prejudice the claim for breach of fiduciary duties regarding the ROH merger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog] Reference

Now that Roxalanne came to entreat him to do that which already he saw himself forced to do, he turned his attention to the profit that he might derive from her interestedness on my behalf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference

His deep interestedness in rescuing his race from the cruel chains of slavery, had established the faith that he would not permit us to be betrayed into the hands of a friend or advocate of the cruel institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Isaac Mason as a slave,] Reference

I want to hear that out, "and Fred looked the picture of anxiety and interestedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference

"autonomous" but to recognize that the interestedness and embeddedness with which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [amor mundi] Reference

10th, the kind interestedness you yet continue to take in my concerns merits the warmest returns of Gratitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771] Reference

Mr. Solmes’s interestedness, if I thought fit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference