Sentence examples for altruistic gestures from inspiring English sources
Yet if one of the chief aims of sex is to make your partner feel good, and not having an orgasm makes him or her feel bad, perhaps faking it is merely one of those occasional sexually altruistic gestures that could help preserve long-term happiness when there isn't always time to get sex "just right".
Basically, they used to say that behind all altruistic gestures, there is a selfish motive.
There are hundreds of examples of altruistic gestures in animals living in the wild as well as in labs.
Andreea Marin Bănică, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for Romania, greeted the launch of the first UNICEF loyalty card in the country: "Kind and altruistic gestures must be admired all the more when people are going through a tough period, which tests us all.
President Karzai and his aides, however, were not greeting it as an altruistic gesture.
Providing the platform free to some public-school students is partly an altruistic gesture, he says – but also good business.
My own instinct is that philanthropy should be an altruistic gesture that neither asks, nor even expects, anything tangible in return.
Based on this social structure, the common assumption has long been that healthy animals strand themselves as an altruistic gesture, that they do so to continue caring for distressed family members.
When Noah's stepmother (Veanne Cox) urges the family's African-American housekeeper, Caroline Thibodeaux (Tonya Pinkins), to keep what change she finds left in his clothes, this ostensibly altruistic gesture triggers deepening misunderstandings and resentments about class and race.
This altruistic gesture created a nice sense of community and offered new potential for conservative collectors but for the most part the artist-run galleries were just as predictable as the commercials.
It's not easy to square the circle between an altruistic gesture and the more egregious examples of mindless thuggery, but this young boy's story illustrates that, while it is easy to fixate on the negatives, positives do exist.
