Sentence examples for self-seeking from inspiring English sources

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.

"Mike's conduct is just the most familiar and depressing of Washington stories — a history of self-seeking and media manipulation," Mr. Scully wrote.

Sure, you're not being self seeking.