Sentence examples for selfish attitude from inspiring English sources

This might be taken as a selfish attitude, but it's also honest.

At one European summit he denounced Tony Blair's "selfish" attitude to farm spending and called his refusal to give up the British budget rebate "pathetic".

But I have to acknowledge that we not only breached the spirit of cricket but it was probably a selfish attitude.

"Ethically, I think there's a selfish attitude, which is 'I know the sharks will have moved on in a few weeks, but I really want to go surfing now, so can you go out and kill a few endangered species'".

Which is to say that the writer doesn't mention Adam's cavalierly aggressive and selfish attitude, his desire to humiliate Hannah, her resistance to his aggression, his indifference to her pleasure.

Norm Blake, a former chief executive, said upon his resignation in 2000 that he found many officials to be motivated by the selfish attitude of "what's in it for me?" and a refusal to commit to change.

Some commenters are appalled at the supposed selfish attitudes of the parents.

Will the crisis lead to nationalistic and selfish attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic, stymieing the long-awaited rapprochement, if not a full reconciliation?

Under socialism or communism Marx and Engels drew no clear or consistent distinction between the two government itself will eventually wither away as people gradually lose the selfish attitudes inculcated by private ownership of the means of production.

You could argue that you don't really want such selfish attitudes in the people running the country, but what else would you expect with Trump as president?

Jack Florey of IndieLondon reviewed the characters, stating that their behaviour is the show's biggest problem: "the self-absorbed, pretentious and frequently selfish attitudes that drive the surgeons at the centre of Grey's exasperate more than reward".