Sentence examples for selfless action from inspiring English sources

Altruism in its purest form should be an entirely selfless action.

His utterly selfless action enabled all casualties to be extracted and the bodies recovered.

Zizek sees in Brünnhilde's sacrifice the hope for a new kind of politics — a space of selfless action beyond the failed ideologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

"So you," she told a young woman who risked her life to save a stranger, "having a kind of a downer day being in a valley, to then have been at this peak now, Angelica, because of your selfless action".

As it has been said (to excess) that liberals reawakened to the virtues of New York's Finest after witnessing them in selfless action at the World Trade Center, so some conservative mediaphobes are now reappraising their knee-jerk hostility to reporters after seeing the price one has paid in pursuit of a story in Pakistan.

Calling for better treatment of stock options isn't an entirely selfless action by these CEOs.

For such theories, selfless actions boil down to selfish ones.

"Ian's brave, courageous and selfless actions no doubt saved others from harm.

Finally, we can pay tribute to these individuals and their selfless actions.

He served in the Persian Gulf war and received a Bronze Star for "selfless actions" during combat duty.

But with a culture of generosity and an appreciation of small selfless actions, I believe that the opposite can become true.