Word: selfishly
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Sorenstam, 32, insists that going up against the boys has nothing to do with blazing a feminist trail in men's sports. It's about one woman, her game and her purely selfish motives. "I would not have gotten all this attention if I were not a good golfer," she says. "This is a way to push myself to another level. This is for myself...
...questionable character are already present among us, why should we lose the right to express moral indignation at an act that, Podolsky admits, “turns [his] stomach?” Is it truly “hypocrisy” to acknowledge that Harvard has some undesirably selfish people, yet simultaneously desire to avoid perpetuating or worsening this state of affairs...
Does Kennedy's medical condition make him a hero? Or does his years' long concealment of such matters as his life-threatening Addison's disease instead reconfirm the streak of selfish recklessness that was equally evident in his sexual risk taking? If the facts of his health had been known in 1960, of course, Kennedy never would have been elected President. This was a man who, three times before Dallas, had been in such dire physical condition that he was given the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The presidential biographer Richard Reeves has remarked that "in a lifetime...
...petty, trivial and selfish one-upmanship her lawsuit reflects—particularly the fact that she is asking for money—turns my stomach and makes me wish she’d chosen Princeton...
...selfish note, I’m glad I got to play for her all four years before she retired,” co-captain Katie Shaughnessy said...