Sentence examples for the sort of selflessness from inspiring English sources

Mr. Murphy said his son's action in battle was typical of the sort of selflessness he displayed even as a child, recalling an episode when he got into a scrap with three bullies in middle school who tried to shove a disabled student in a locker.

Teamwork is about the subversion of the ego, as Zhou Dahuang attested, and it is unlikely that the future of art will embrace this sort of selflessness any more than the history of art has to this point, although it is a nice vision.

The Anthony-led Knicks have yet to play with the sort of fluidity, selflessness and aesthetic joy that the Stoudemire-led Knicks displayed before the trade.

Feelings of sympathy/empathy might thus lead to selfless and other oriented behavior, such behavior is however not necessarily derived from the right sort of selflessness and impartiality characteristic of the moral attitude.

The ideal in these traditions is a sort of selflessness in which, through the dissolution of the self, a larger truth emerges.

She wants to "forget that self which lay awake at night full of dread, wondering, What is going to become of me?" In the ministrations of oral sex she finds a "devotional sort of selflessness" that strikes her as "religious," and "she flung herself into it.

Both require a particular sort of selflessness to bring them to life.

It's the same kind of selflessness that she puts into her performances.

I found the same kind of selflessness where I started on Capitol Hill.

The Salwens' experience confirms the selfish pleasures of selflessness.

He dropped the idea of selflessness.