Sentence examples for self-seeking and from inspiring English sources

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

It's a fine, disciplined piece of acting, and it binds us to the mystery of Bernie's character, in which self-seeking and the genuine desire to be useful exist side by side.

Outsider self-seeking and insolence were the very same markers that had marred their private march for ages.

The majority of these aristocrats were self-seeking and incompetent.

The "natural condition" of man, said Hobbes, is self-seeking and competitive.

But however self-seeking and power-hungry Mr Thaksin may be, the red-shirt movement now dwarfs his individual ambition.

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.

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"Florence was everywhere and everywhere was Florence," thinks the Tuscan scamp turned Ottoman warlord Argalia, one of the novel's self-seeking bridge-builders and go-betweens who bind East and West.

Among these negative attitudes, mistrust is the cognitive habit of interpreting the intentions and behavior of others as dishonest, unsupportive, and self-seeking.

Muddle, conniving and self-seeking have their part to play in politics.