Sentence examples for self-seeker from inspiring English sources

(Curzon privately dismissed him as a sneaky "self-seeker", though Amundsen's death in 1928 during a rescue mission for a beleaguered party near the north pole suggests otherwise).

On the left, which fully warmed to him only when he got caught with his pants down, the rap on him was that he didn't stand for anything — that he was a trimmer, a sellout artist, a slick self-seeker.

A core group of three persons, all withdrawn, Epicurean and decadent figures, allow the intrusion of Gore Pirgu, a low-class and uncultured self-seeker, whose character comes to embody the new political class of Greater Romania.

Yes, the assumption that I am a conscienceless liar, self-seeker, is quite right... Is this wish to smoke the result of my confusion, or is it because I no longer wish to be introspective and philosophical?

I am sure our King, in this case, was not the self-seeker type, unless it was for his vanity, but I know he could definitely have been on the right track.

They know only the rules of a generation of self-seekers.

They only know the rules of a generation of self-seekers.

Like other foreign self-seekers on the island, he took up archaeology as an exotic hobby.

Virtually all the characters are power-drunk self-seekers, their loyalties temporary, their principles and consciences easily appeased.

While competition has strengthened some colleges, embedded in the very idea of university are values the market does not honor: the belief in a community of scholars and not a confederacy of self-seekers; in the idea of openness and not ownership; and in the student as an acolyte whose preferences are to be formed, not a consumer whose preferences are to be satisfied.

"Those who would sacrifice that unity in the face of the horrific budget cuts and layoffs our members now face will not be able to push the members of our great union off course, and in the end they will be exposed as malicious self-seekers," she said.