No more fawning or self-worship -- they get in the way.
For us, it's suggested, relativism, multiculturalism and self-worship make it nigh on impossible.
We have, it seems, internalized Hypnos, making sleep a kind of self-worship, and the bedroom, where we propitiate ourselves and our senses, its temple.
In this evening of unrelenting self-worship, Dame Edna Everage, the Australian housewife turned superstar, anoints herself the new queen of Broadway, and not without reason.
In this evening of un relenting self-worship, Dame Edna Everage, the Australian housewife turned superstar, anoints herself the new queen of Broadway, and not without reason.
The nominees reflect the astonishing fact, barely acknowledged during the Academy's annual ceremony of self-worship, that film is an international art form.
This, of course, is what he achieved, and if, on one side, it sounds like self-abnegation, on another side it resembles self-worship: "I am God," the entry concludes.
The chief should avoid falling into self-worship, should have the "emotional fortitude" to engage in candid discussion and should find the right kinds of people to get things done.
But Mr Weigel dreams of something quite different: a reinvigorated celibate priesthood, and reinvigorated religious orders, in which men and women freely commit themselves to a life of abstinence and service to God as a riposte to the self-worship which, in his view, defines modern times.
Consider, he asks, the consequences of "the self-worship, the unjust self preference" nourished in boys growing up in male dominated households in which "by the mere fact of being born male he is by right the superior of all and every one of an entire half of the human race" (1869, 86 87).
In chapter IV of The Subjection of Women, Mill goes so far as to claim that "[a]ll the selfish propensities, the self-worship, the unjust self-preference, which exist among mankind, have their source and root in, and derive their principal nourishment from, the present constitution of the relation between men and women" (Mill, Subjection of Women, 86).
