Sentence examples for great selflessness from inspiring English sources

Neil LaBute was fully aware that the days and weeks after Sept. 11 last year were a time of great selflessness for many people.

There is great selflessness and valor in the military, but there is heroism, too, in running mentoring programs and getting kids through school — becoming part of their families in a way that can also be regarded, to borrow Kelly's word, as sacred.

That takes great selflessness and courage.

It may be that meaningful contact with women is one of the forces that tilt men toward greater selflessness.

Drawn from the same "Total Football" principles as Cruyff, the blunt Van Gaal demanded even greater selflessness from his team.

The England and Wales Cricket Board said: "Andrew has shown great determination and selflessness making a conscious decision to push through discomfort in order to help the England team reclaim the Ashes.

The last explanation might seem the least likely – after all young children don't have a great reputation for selflessness and, at least in my household, tidying is something kids do under duress.

Deep relatedness can bring out the worst as well as the best in us: our deepest fears and our greatest hopes, our selflessness as well as our possessiveness, our kindness and our insensitivity, our generosity and our self-centeredness.

A man of wisdom, boundless joy, selflessness, and great pride.

Some people wonder whether it's possible to be truly selfless, since the act of selflessness can actually bring great pleasure.

There was great eloquence, uncommon courage, and selflessness, particularly in the case of the young prisoner Elliott James Barkley, now dead, who was to have been released in days and who continued to help those he called his brothers in a conspicuous role of leadership.