Yet absolute power, as Paterno seemed to wield at Penn State, rarely produces the kind of enlightened, selfless leaders we like to pretend people like Paterno are.
As much as I would love to act like giving was my selfless and saint-like way of being, truth be told, it gave me control and, until getting cancer, I would never have realized it.
You may not mind if you get reborn as a selfless hero, like Erin Brockovich.
In this way the Jewish people are selfless, much like God himself. .
It is a selfless act, like others that are being repeated across Kenya daily.
"Captain Khan was an American hero, and like all Americans I'm grateful for the sacrifices that selfless young men like Capt.
Powerful, disciplined and selfless, Eilts – with the likes of Stefan Kuntz and Oliver Bierhoff – epitomised the character of a footballing nation.
Greg Kot wrote that Ocean presents "a dialogue between his self-gratifying lust and more selfless conscience", with Prince-like "psychedelic-gospel inflections" and Marvin Gaye-like overdubbing of Ocean's vocals, which give the impression of voices in conversation with one another.
What appeared like selfless heroics in 1990 were in fact signs of early on-set antisocial personality disorder.
Love, in its most selfless form, tastes like sweet corn made by an old woman working at daybreak, during the hottest part of the summer.
