Word: selfishly
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...Catalan living in London and, of course, a great Barcelona club supporter. Usually Catalans are portrayed as selfish people focused upon their narrow-minded identity, but your article offers an evenhanded take on what my nation is - a small but vibrant, civic and open community. Ivan Serrano-Balaguer London
...third season, is a black-humored study of why men lie--to themselves, each other, God, their families and women (this season, including guest star Susan Sarandon). Leary is one of the few leads who could handle the whiplashing tones, and he has made the brave and selfish Gavin empathetic without excusing him. Rescue Me makes you laugh until and becauseit hurts...
...lives in Lamont. If all you’re going to do is sleep, then you aren’t really accomplishing much at all, are you, Lamont kid? So go home and make the desk available for someone who’s actually working, you geeky, selfish bastard. Productive – Cleaning your room. It is the end of the year, and you’re going to have to do it anyway. If you start now, after finals are over you can just relax until it’s time to leave. Ambiguously productive...
...scorched the consciences of backsliding Puritan congregations. Termed the “jeremiad,” such a sermon maintains an uncompromising, and strangely exultant, insistence that every day, members of an egalitarian community make a choice: the ideal society we are called to build, or your own, pathetic, selfish desires, you maggot. Which’ll it be today? A university jeremiad, delivered from within, should define the choices of Harvard students, leaders, and professors—as starkly as possible.University President Lawrence H. Summers said in his address to undergraduates on Sunday, “At a time...
Perhaps that's why, this time, I won't be disappointed if gas prices stay uncomfortably high. Then I might finally be able to adapt to them. I might relinquish, at last, my selfish fantasy of buying a 300-h.p. sports sedan that uses only premium. I might break myself of the obsessive road-trip habit that caused me to put over 90,000 miles on a new SUV in just the past two years. I might trade in the SUV for a mountain bike and lower my blood pressure as a wholesome side effect...