Rebecca Becky Sharpharp is ruthless and self- seeking; Amelia Sedley is a "good woman".
The president appeared a self-seeking troublemaker.
Muddle, conniving and self-seeking have their part to play in politics.
The tone is ruminative, eccentric, and affectionate, yet the humor also carries a strong undercurrent of self-seeking.
In any case, she's sure that he's a poseur and an opportunist, disguising his self-seeking with a veneer of piety.
One is that natural catastrophes can create a sense of shared sacrifice and purpose that discredits aggressive self-seeking, if only temporarily.
Take the penultimate stanza of a poem aptly titled "Vanity": "In spite of the spot-checking, / the self-seeking, the meticulous soul-smithing, / I am still me, lacking".
Though Reynard is sly, amoral, cowardly, and self-seeking, he is still a sympathetic hero, whose cunning is a necessity for survival.
And there was "Swimming With Sharks," a cynical satire of Hollywood ambition and Clinton-era self-seeking, with Spacey as a diabolical movie producer.
They advocated (among other things) that inheritance rights be abolished so that capital could leave the hands of self-seeking capitalists and be placed at society's disposal.
