Sentence examples for egoism from inspiring English sources

Which is why the melding of the charitable impulse with the egoism of the selfie made some of us feel like our brains were exploding under the strain of two opposing forces.

Mentioning some of his weaker characteristics, including compulsive womanising, unimpressive aviation skills, childishness and egoism, often causes a rumpus during public debates where Saint-Ex fans are as zealous as religious fundamentalists.

He tells the story of democracy since the late 18th century as a conflict between egoism and equality, his code for free-market capitalism and social democracy.

"The old values of individualism, capitalism and egoism must be demolished," says the president.

ACCORDING to Patanjali, the great sage of yoga who lived in the second century BC, yoga is about bringing the mind to complete stillness and thus reaching liberation from mental delusions such as anger, egoism and greed.

The preference of the characters for the foreign (Italian food and French cigarettes) over the national, and the arrogance and egoism which success brings them, are all embarrassingly recognisable.While "Rossini" is a very (west) German film, some of the newer works currently doing so well at the box-office borrow heavily from America.

Most people think that Smith was advocating pure egoism.

These books leave unclear how far he is still an "objectivist", a follower of Ayn Rand's arcane masonry of egoism, elitism and free-marketry.

Fascinated by ideas about consciousness, and the essential differences between brains and super-computers, she spends much of the play in sparky debate with other scientists whose views tend to be more mechanistic than hers.At the institute Hilary does experiments into altruism and egoism, and delivers papers on God, much to the disgust of her boss, Leo.

The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me, but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism.

He worried that the farmers' markets were breeding "egoism among the people and [that] the base of the party's class may come to collapse".He has a point.