Verb (used with object) : The water shortage concerns us all. ,She concerns herself with every aspect of the business. ,I am concerned about his health. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : Law is the concern of lawyers. ,The party was no concern of his. ,to show concern for someone in trouble. ,This news is of concern to all of us. ,the headquarters of an insurance concern. From Dictionary.com.
The attackers had no more self-concern than army ants. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
For such a person self-concern has dropped out of the center of awareness. From Wordnik.com. [Flower Heads and Grain] Reference
What is it about this substance that warrants my special self-concern, for example?. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference
Regional, religious, and communal self-concern would bring about overall stability. From Wordnik.com. [Was Democracy Just a Moment?] Reference
That self-concern is embodied in the hypothetical person who inhabits the economics texts. From Wordnik.com. [B2fxxx] Reference
In fact, the process of moving from self-concern to humanity-concern may have already started. From Wordnik.com. [Mark C. Miller: Can Judaism Save Charlie Sheen?] Reference
We move closer to it every time we see past our own self-concern to accommodate concern for others. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Om: In The Presence Of Difficulty] Reference
By "threatened" I mean that it makes such self-concern seem small in the face of something so much bigger. From Wordnik.com. [Flower Heads and Grain] Reference
Johnston illustrates this point by talking about one of our practical concerns in particular: self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference
This love is so big that often our self-concern and our fascination with our own liberation feel threatened. From Wordnik.com. [Flower Heads and Grain] Reference
We have become a nation debilitated by failed attempted conquests and paralyzed with self-concern and apathy. From Wordnik.com. [Has Anybody Here Seen My Old Friend Martin?] Reference
A practice like this counters the tendency to encircle our individual lives with a protective fence of self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Calm] Reference
For instance, what seems to matter for self-concern and rational anticipation is that my psychological life continue. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference
Selfishness denotes an excessive or exclusive concern with oneself and goes beyond normal self-interest or self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [What Makes a Person Ugly?] Reference
In other words, we discover that nervous self-consciousness is merely a confused distortion of self-concern and self-awareness. From Wordnik.com. [Developing Balanced Sensitivity: Practical Buddhist Exercises for Daily Life (Revised Second Edition) ��� 13 Four Exercises for Deconstructing Deceptive Appearances] Reference
So it is important, in any situation we may find ourselves, not to be preoccupied with self-concern, but always to think of everybody. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Five: Relative Bodhichitta and Deepest Bodhichitta] Reference
Although, by definition, such a motivation is one of self-concern over concern for the unborn child, every case would be slightly different. From Wordnik.com. [Issues in Buddhist Sexual Ethics] Reference
This sort of self-concern, then, constitutes a form of partiality which seems, from the vantage point of common sense, to be morally endorsed. From Wordnik.com. [Impartiality] Reference
Instead, true happiness comes from taking exactly the opposite approach - through engaging the world in ways that lessen this grip of self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [What Makes You Happy, Also Makes You Successful] Reference
I thought you'd get the picture if I did the same but I guess you're too deep into your world of self-concern that you didn't realize I was talking. From Wordnik.com. [6/11/03--go away, leech!] Reference
You want to free your soul from both the ego's suffocating self-concern and the outdated and spiritually unenlightened values of our modern and postmodern culture. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Z. Cohen: Spiritual Practice Is Spirit Lived] Reference
We have already seen some ways in which considerations of personal identity might be relevant to self-regarding practical concerns like anticipation and self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference
Unfortunately, it is not clear whether or not it could be extended to apply to all of our practical concerns, resting as it does solely on an analysis of self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference
Indeed, men's exaggerated sense of entitlement and inflated self-concern are just the corollaries of women's exaggerated sense of self-sacrifice and diminished self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
On the other hand I have known people capable of real sacrifice whose lives were nevertheless a misery to themselves and to others, because self-concern and self-pity filled all their thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
The point of this is to exchange our attitudes so that this business of “I have to be happy,” feeling sorry for myself – all this self-concern and cherishing – are applied to another object. From Wordnik.com. [A Commentary on Attitude-Training Like the Rays of the Sun - His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ��� Day Four: Completion of Preliminaries and the Two Types of Bodhichitta] Reference
Indeed, our reactions to certain thought experiments strongly suggest that we think rational anticipation, self-concern, moral responsibility, and the like can be justified even in the absence of biological continuity. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference
That self-concern is at the center of Obama's polling free fall. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
We find self-concern and some concern for others, but not respect. From Wordnik.com. [Herein is Love A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Love in Its Bearing on Personality, Parenthood, Teaching, and All Other Human Relationships.] Reference
It was primarily an attempt to cast a noble perspective on self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [The Corner on National Review Online] Reference
If the concerned self is in charge of monitoring "self-concern," how reliable can the readings be?. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotal Evidence] Reference
It's a simple, elegant trick - you just engage the world in ways that lessens your grip of self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Even if college is a place of unity and togetherness, it has turned high school into a vast arena of self-concern and self-involvement. From Wordnik.com. [Articles] Reference
They dealt in allegorical and figurative personages, expounded wise saws and moral lessons, and squared rather with the careful self-concern of the newly established. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge] Reference
Something in her tone pierced Raoul’s wall of self-concern. From Wordnik.com. [The Dressmaker] Reference
However, hip self-concern, not to mention a curious disregard for those who REALLY didn’t fit in Long Duk Dong, anyone?. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mondays: This Is England (2006)] Reference
That’s why Wales is not getting ahead of the game -much too much residual self-concern on the part of the power brokers and grey mandarins. From Wordnik.com. [Convergence -what about whats left?] Reference
In his self-concern he was forgetting his father. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
"The rock-bottomness of one's self-concern isn't a matter of selfishness; it's a matter of basic metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotal Evidence] Reference
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