Also important were "manly outdoor sports", qualities such as protection of the weak, unselfishness and fellowship, and the instinct to lead.In this section The fuel of power No place to be sick Blood and guts A mystery uncorked Redemption by bequest The man who changed his mind Reprints Related items Literary lives: Cold fishJul 9th 1998Plainly they would be very different from Rhodes himself.
If only a similar unselfishness prevailed on Capitol Hill.
Nixon's supporters and critics alike, both then and later, praised him for the dignity and unselfishness with which he handled defeat and the suspicion that vote fraud had cost him the presidency.
It was believed that rugby football instilled in the "muscular Christian" gentleman the values of unselfishness, fearlessness, teamwork, and self-control.
His great gifts, unselfishness, and social charm made him everywhere respected, and the scandal that clouded his last years has done nothing to tarnish his reputation.
Worcester owe their place in the top echelon of English club rugby to an act of boundless generosity performed by Bristol in the second leg of last season's promotion play-off, so there is something profoundly ironic about the Midlanders' own munificent streak – the kind of unselfishness that has been known to send better, more lavishly financed teams plummeting in a southerly direction.
He showed great unselfishness in squaring the ball to Meireles in the last minute, enabling the Portuguese to score.
The greatest of these vice-for-virtue deceptions was achieved, Screwtape says, by "the admirable work of our Philological Arm in substituting the negative unselfishness for the Enemy's positive Charity".
It is often impossible to find out either party's real wishes; with luck, they end by doing something that neither wants, while each feels a glow of self-righteousness and harbours a secret claim to preferential treatment for the unselfishness shown and a secret grudge against the other for the ease with which the sacrifice has been accepted.
"Up With People!", founded 2 years ago, is sponsored by Moral Re-Armament, which preaches that the world can be changed if every individual changes his own life & begins to aim at absolute standards of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love.
If he says that he loves them because they are artless and innocent, or incapable of duplicity, or because of the wholehearted unselfishness of their affection, or because their souls are not tainted by envy, or something like that, beware.
