Sentence examples for selfish pursuit from inspiring English sources

It goes with the territory.Thus, the selfish pursuit of profit serves a social purpose.

I always worry about what I'm doing with my life because music is a selfish pursuit.

How can all this selfish pursuit of an individual goal be justified?

Observers enjoy it, sponsors encourage it and climbers get to share what is inherently a selfish pursuit.

For him, the play is the tragedy of the good soldier brought low by his selfish pursuit of glory.

Trading against others is regarded as an inherently selfish pursuit, even if it might have indirect societal benefits.

It feels as if the promise of the tech world — its utopian ideals and democratic aspirations — has dissolved into much more selfish pursuits of power and wealth.

You get the feeling that Olive and Henry love each other somewhere deep down, but that it's lost in their own selfish pursuits of happiness.

As our desires as men and women evolve to include more experiences outside the domestic and professional spheres, many parents want to make more time for selfish pursuits.

For these reasons, it's remarkable that their own selfish pursuits have forced them to create a safety net of sorts that rivals the amounts spent by public sector safety net programs.

But the real fun comes from watching the old war horse plod through a hostile social environment, observing the swells at their selfish pursuits and making them regret every condescending sneer they threw in his face.