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"selfishly" Definitions
  1. in a way that shows that you care only about yourself rather than about other people

278 Sentences With "selfishly"

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The concept of Vacation formed organically and selfishly from there.
Selfishly, I wanted to for a long list of reasons.
We have to stop living selfishly and start giving back.
Selfishly, I'm excited to hear her sing on these stages.
I wrote it very selfishly, to heal myself and process.
Now, they use it selfishly for their own, personal fulfillment.
I married Bill for the security; I married him selfishly.
Selfishly I always wanted to meet him but never met him.
He is instead deliberately, selfishly and recklessly taking the country apart.
But selfishly, I still want a child that is genetically mine.
And, selfishly, it's great, because now I get to play Moira!
Obviously you don't want to frame the matter quite so selfishly.
In emergencies, people tend to work together rather than act selfishly.
I made Built to Fail for them and selfishly for myself.
"I have been very faithful with my wife, very selfishly," he said.
Selfishly, I am most interested in your analysis of the mobile space.
Everything else has always been done and made totally selfishly for me.
Selfishly, I wanted to see what happened when they went through this process.
CAVUTO: Not that people would be so selfishly... (CROSSTALK) GASPARINO: They should be.
And, selfishly, without them, I would not have gotten my ten fat scallops.
And Black Panther can't act impulsively or selfishly, because he represents a nation.
If I hadn't been so selfishly determined to keep them both in my life?
I'm one of seven grandchildren and am selfishly happy I ended up with them.
We all have our downsides, times when we act stupidly or childishly or selfishly.
Now many in that group are seen as selfishly fixated on the wealth itself.
So much food and hard work are wasted as they selfishly throw them away.
"Selfishly, I'd like to make a difference in my daughter's life," Mr. Johnson said.
"I selfishly thought this could make my life easier," he said about his motivations.
I also selfishly want to know if Tinariwen will be coming to the States.
It's unlike you to behave selfishly, Virgo—you are the sign of service, after all.
I selfishly didn't think of those with a higher degree of social anxiety than mine.
I selfishly wonder if I will always be associated with this in other people's minds.
Selfishly, I'd like to see the car equivalent of the rangefinder revival among mirrorless cameras.
"Our interest in doing a project in Singapore began selfishly," Hadzismajlovic said in an email.
Potential parents should act selfishly on behalf of their elderly selves and have more children.
Motherhood is not a sacrifice, but a privilege — one that many of us choose selfishly.
Blood "selfishly binds" with oxygen and doesn't release it to the tissue where it's needed.
David A. Goodman, the president of the W.G.A. West, accused the agencies of behaving selfishly.
In severe cases of penile cancer, some or all of the penis is removed, which—speaking selfishly as a selfish man who can't help but selfishly wince while writing this selfish sentence—is perhaps the best reason I've ever heard for getting the HPV vaccine.
It still holds up, and in the Dawkins' sense of the word, it affects us selfishly.
His retirement plans sounded much like my plan for my early 20s: Live selfishly for myself.
Not only did people not behave selfishly, they behaved in different ways depending on their personality.
They know how excited she is about her movies and music, but selfishly people love her.
Some require special toys to lure them out, others will selfishly eat all of your food.
Don't support people who selfishly take opportunities away from those who work hard to earn them.
D.C.: I value human history and selfishly would like it to be continuous with the future.
"Selfishly, there are hikes I've seen that are beautiful that I am not going to name."
Selfishly, I root for my friends, but Derek and I have had this conversation a bunch.
Glória's maternal fussing is seen as selfishly possessive, and Matheus's hostility as bigoted and potentially violent.
I empathized with his pain and loneliness, but selfishly I knew I had dodged a bullet.
Selfishly, I'm interested in how you dressed Jessica Pressler's character, the writer played by Julia Stiles.
A third player watches this interaction, and can choose to punish the first player for acting selfishly.
The league recognizes the value of the technology, but selfishly wants to control the direction of it.
We want to signal our community spirit, but we also want to selfishly benefit from our work.
Selfishly, I wanted her to still be there to sing me through the rest of high school.
But those marks, like when I search for untracked powder on my board, are essentially made selfishly.
Unfortunately, they're sold out of the English audio guides so I'm selfishly hoping there are translations inside.
And some -- I have to say Martha&aposs, somewhat selfishly I wanted the book for my own collection.
And, selfishly, I would like to know if that means Kat is ready to let Ethan love her?
The ability to make those decisions is all part of rugby but, for me, selfishly it's probably disappointing.
True, the Americans still accuse the Chinese of selfishly failing to enforce the harshest and most crippling sanctions.
"I've been selfishly keeping this girl to myself for too long!" he captioned a photo of them together.
"So selfishly we all want to do another one because we get paid to hang out," she explains.
Most of all, though, albeit most selfishly, if Google's IDE were better, it would push Apple's to improve.
Compared with other students, studies have shown that economists are more likely to behave selfishly in bargaining situations.
Instead of selfishly pleasing my own desires, I sought out ways to help those who were in need.
I asked half-selfishly because, as a Nicaraguan-American, I was craving rice and beans and fried plantains.
If God's will is that we are to be selfless, then what benefit is it to act selfishly?
Not only about health issues, but also about the state of the economy and, selfishly, my own money.
Selfishly, I'm hoping it will be North African; he could build an entire menu around that Libyan couscous.
Just when you find yourself dozing comfortably, your partner rolls over and selfishly takes the duvet with them.
In fact, Harden's playing so selfishly ... there was a streak last month where James scored 263 STRAIGHT points UNASSISTED.
"You want to do good business — not selfishly, because I'll be fine, I'll get another writing job," Cannon said.
MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle also said "a lot of people vote pretty selfishly" when it comes to supporting Trump.
The U.S. president acted solely in his own personal political interest, they say, and selfishly sacrificed the nation's interest.
When the researchers repeated the experiment with blue-headed macaws, another type of parrot, the birds only acted selfishly.
When you see power as a source of freedom, you are likely to use it to serve yourself, selfishly.
Opponents argue that these rural minorities and their international supporters are selfishly standing in the way of Nigeria's growth.
And, speaking selfishly, most of your suggestions are in a price range that won't challenge The Times's expense policies.
He said that, selfishly, if Trump won, he wanted to know that, he'd done everything he could for Hillary.
TOP MARINE: TROOPS ACCUSED OF SHARING NUDE PHOTOS ACTED 'SELFISHLY AND UNPROFESSIONALLY': The country's top Marine issued a video statement Tuesday saying that the Marines accused of sharing nude photos of female service members "acted selfishly and unprofessionally," his first public comments on the issue since the scandal began over the weekend.
He was forthcoming; when Hill was confronted by the cops, he'd confessed right away, saying he knew he'd behaved selfishly.
Selfishly, it's a bit of therapy for me to talk about things and put things out there in the universe.
"I feel like this season, selfishly from my perspective, has a little bit more light and levity," Moore told E!
As Dawkins implies, while we humans may be altruistic, our genes -- the blueprint of us -- are programmed to act selfishly.
Leading up to my parole hearing, the men around me built up my hope for freedom, selfishly protecting their own.
I can be a patron to artists I believe in and collect their work without the guilt of spending selfishly.
Given only a placebo before making decisions, women acted less selfishly than men, choosing to share their money with others.
" Aquilina continued, "You violated the oath that you took, which is to do no harm, and you harmed them selfishly.
The producer on Al's other side selfishly hogged him for most of the evening, which I felt was rather uncharitable!
Selfishly, I am relieved to hear from a scientist that my lurking is not ruining my pristine and giant brain.
Acting as selfishly as expected, the crony corporations seek to take control of the Bank for their own greedy purposes.
It could be your landlord selfishly demanding half of your wages each month, despite the fact they own 15 houses.
"Looking at this selfishly, it's going to be a positive impact," said Sood, who has freelanced for Axios, Cisco and Macy's.
The actor didn't know Bourdain personally, but says he and millions of fans were "selfishly angry" that Bourdain left them behind.
"Selfishly, I thought [the writers] wrote such a beautiful version of what a mother could say to her son." she said.
In their silence, Sue Klebold later realized, they seemed to be selfishly withholding insights that might be of use to others.
"For me, selfishly, I don't get the chance to be around these guys, except [in] passing and social things," Ventimiglia explained.
Think of it this way: Who wants to marry someone who is always selfishly seeking to optimize happiness from the marriage?
Americans do not vote sympathetically, we vote selfishly, on the issues that matter directly towards us; our money and our safety.
Sometimes you have to keep talking about yourself even though other people, selfishly, keep interrupting and trying to talk about themselves.
He resents rich, big-city folk in Minneapolis, for "selfishly" blocking plans to establish open-pit mines for copper and other materials.
I put people in compromising and inappropriate situations, and I selfishly took advantage of those situations where I should have known better.
And if we're only doing good deeds as a means of chasing a reward, are we not ultimately behaving selfishly after all?
" He later revealed the mystery lady as Clarke on Instagram, writing, "I've been selfishly keeping this girl to myself for too long!
We can only (somewhat selfishly) hope that the show's dedication to telling realistic stories keeps Ventimiglia feeling confident in his career choice.
Fans will defend Orgeron's decision to let Fournette play because Fournette wanted to, and because they selfishly want to watch him, too.
Was his primary critique of Wakanda — that it has selfishly shirked its responsibilities to other African nations and the diaspora — ultimately correct?
Before its midpoint, the film begins its retreat from the moral questions raised by Jim's selfishly dragging Aurora into his personal hell.
Trying to transform these feelings of guilt was all selfishly part of my own spiritual thing — "journey" sounds cheesy, but it was.
On album opener "Right on You," Booker criticizes himself for selfishly taking life for granted when death is always right around the corner.
It's not only selfishly for me, because this is how I want to live my life, but that it gives other kids confidence.
He's fortunate to have, in Dawkins, a coach who knows the league, and who doesn't selfishly use him as simply a defensive specialist.
However, when their dopamine systems were disrupted after they received a drug called amisulpride, women acted more selfishly, while men became more generous.
"As I look at you, and the home to which I have brought you, I feel that I have acted selfishly," he says.
Arlee beat Mission by 3503 points, but in Pitts's and the other coaches' estimation, it was a lackluster night; the Warriors played selfishly.
"The best part for me, selfishly, is discovering a part of myself that I guess I never really knew was in there," he said.
People are going to genuinely miss her, but they know how excited she is about her movies and music … but selfishly, people love her.
Second and more selfishly, I really wanted to try them out on those 16-hour flights I just took to Hong Kong and back.
Ms. Greer mostly wanted the challenge of making her own film — "really super-selfishly, just to see if I could do it," she said.
Maybe those colleges have found the holy grail of a remarkably effective sexual assault prevention program and have selfishly refused to share their secrets.
Selfishly, I feel like men need to look up to something once again — there's got to be that perfection in men's wear that's missed.
But in shutdown-vulnerable national parks with few rangers, people recognize that they either won't be punished for acting selfishly, or they won't be caught.
And then beyond that also, selfishly for me, I got to share the stage with actors I don't get to usually spend time with — i.e.
Not surprisingly, it's behaving like the pragmatic, minimally ideological, and selfishly self-interested nation it's been for more than those last 44 years and counting.
In some multi-round experiments players chose to punish participants who acted selfishly in early rounds, even if that meant accepting a lower payout themselves.
I'm so insecure and unconfident in my music, selfishly I've always needed that direct connection and support from fans to have the encouragement to continue.
And there just was never the right story point to bring in Killer Frost's new suit, which obviously, selfishly, I was a little frustrated by.
Instead, in the course of selfishly or zealously pursuing our interests, we all do our bit to chip away at the great gift of democracy.
In that research, published in The Leadership Quarterly, students assigned to lead a group behaved less selfishly when told that other leaders had been unselfish.
Its cumulative effect is to obscure the degree to which companies are poorly and selfishly run for the benefit of the powerful people in charge.
The kids have been loving Fancy Nancy lately, and I may selfishly want this one because the book cover is glittery and purple (my fave color).
So we selfishly assembled a panel of some of our favorite Twitter users to talk about what they love and hate about the little blue bird.
"Selfishly, I set it there just because it gives me another excuse to go back to one of my favorite states in the country," he admits.
" While speaking about his efforts to bring back the art of the live musical, Greenblatt joked: "I selfishly did it because I wanted to do it.
Rocket has begun pushing his teammates away, by acting selfishly and taking actions that have consequences, like provoking a star fleet intent on incinerating the Guardians.
I did it because I was really interested in solving a musical problem, because I selfishly was getting a lot of pleasure out of doing this.
Selfishly I wanted to feel that support for two more days, but today was probably one of the most fun rounds of golf I've ever played.
Sometimes i feel guilty that i might have selfishly extended her suffering... However ill always be grateful for what ever extra time we were afforded together.
As soon as my pregnancy got announced, I've been hard at work on it — I've been really rushing because, selfishly, I want the samples to wear.
When that "incomplete information" includes other people's motivations, however, people with low emotional intelligence automatically assume that other people will act selfishly or even with malice.
Per Chardiet, the record centers on the idea that as we go through our day-to-day lives, we humans have a tendency to act selfishly.
We could very easily pen further tributes to Claudio Ranieri's men, but that would be to ignore the teams whose limelight Leicester have so selfishly hogged.
The Hosts want to get out and they want to see the [rest of the] park, and selfishly as filmmakers, we want to get out, too.
Selfishly, I was pulling for him to win the U.S. Open because it would have been great to have the latest major winner in our field.
He saw her as "a soul mate," and admitted that after she started seeing someone outside of the office, he reacted "selfishly," according to the Inquirer interview.
More from Tonic: "If your partner seems to be acting selfishly, it might be because he or she is feeling overwhelmed with their own issues," Marsden says.
Chen's first instinct was to get rid of any possibility for players to act selfishly, like requiring them to give each other hearts in order to progress.
And because Republican members of Congress are all insured—and, indeed, they selfishly exempted themselves from the pre-existing conditions rollback—it will never dawn on them.
Selfishly, I want to ask: Were you as annoyed as everyone else that a marriage counselor never says anything like: "The court finds in favor of Michelle"?
I selfishly want to see more films like mine be able to get made, but I also want to see queer cinema open up to new possibilities.
As the only members of the Skywalker family alive after "Return of the Jedi," it wouldn't make sense for Luke to selfishly keep that knowledge to himself.
Meehan told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he acted "selfishly" when he found out the aide was dating someone else, admitting that he "developed an affection" for her.
"Totally selfishly, it's so much better for me being jacked because you feel so much more confident and see yourself as this much more sexual person," he explained.
"I have been sick, so I selfishly told my husband that he needed to wake up with the baby and I slept for like 12 hours," Port admits.
In season 1, Jeri selfishly freed Kilgrave to further her own needs, only to immediately have him turn the tables and ruin her life by murdering her wife.
But his power also gnarled and perverted his psyche, to the point where he wasn't just living selfishly but also looking to exploit, traumatize, and humiliate his victims.
Each man is as much Sophie's father as the next one, and would never selfishly rob each other of that gift because of something as silly as DNA.
I tell him I love him, and I'm trying to be a man like him—it was a moment that I selfishly needed for me to go on.
And, to be honest, we're selfishly glad they didn't go with Kylie because we really only have room in our brains for one famous teen of that name.
In another, they harassed individuals on the subway who selfishly sit in seats for disabled people, calling out over a megaphone that Jesus must have miraculously healed them.
Many nights staying up late discussing art, music, family... I am extremely grateful for that, I'm also selfishly pained in the knowing that it will never be again.
I'm shadowing this visit to learn about Dodman's work and, selfishly, to learn something about myself; I was diagnosed with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) a few months ago.
In creating this book, I wanted so desperately (and selfishly) to learn the backstories of these intrepid Arab Women on the Ground to contextualize and celebrate their work.
In theory, it's the most unsecretive, self-improving, mind-expanding, barrier breaking, self-aggrandizing, ego-fueling, selfishly, instantly mythologizing, connective, gratifying, easy era any music fan could hope for.
She has an infectious energy that you just want to be around, so selfishly I am just trying to get a little bit of her energy transferred to me.
" Ciravolo says he's similarly convinced Rigby had nothing to do with Darryl's disappearance, but thinks it is possible "he might be selfishly and conveniently keeping certain things to himself.
"In the process of wanting to encourage people to give, we actually have to allow them to get, selfishly, so the gift actually appears to be altruistic," Chen says.
In a recent interview, Us Weekly asked the Oscar-winning actress if she'd like to add another film to the Bridget Jones franchise "Selfishly I hope so!" she responded.
So I was selfishly, deeply gratified to have made at least one choice in my life that I know beyond a shadow of a doubt was the right one.
" Author of "A Man & His Watch" (Artisan, 2017) "I recently started listening to podcasts more because, selfishly, I found myself on them as a guest talking about my book.
What wasn't shared, what I selfishly kept to myself, was the immense happiness I felt as I baked something that would mark a milestone for someone I loved inordinately.
"I'm so overwhelmed and heartened that people even know or still care that I make music, because I really truly am still doing it selfishly for me," Moore said.
However, the blood turns blue because it "selfishly binds" with the high levels of oxygen, Warren said, failing to release any to the tissue where it needs to be.
During what investors call a "bear market"—when prices are going down, as opposed to a positive bull market—I selfishly turn to Reddit's /r/bitcoin subreddit to laugh.
Visits to county clinics for communicable diseases (you know, the kind you should at least selfishly want everyone treated for) dropped by nearly a third after Alabama's HB 1563.
That and, if it isn't painfully clear by this travel diary, I have a massive sweet tooth so, selfishly, bringing candy home to share means candy for me to eat.
The video, posted to the Marine Corps' official Twitter account, calls out those involved for acting selfishly, and requests soldiers to speak out if they feel they are being harassed.
Cuomo also cryptically mentioned Nixon advocating on the behalf of actor Sarah Jessica Parker and her "teahouse," suggesting Nixon has used her celebrity to selfishly influence politics in the past.
Governments have murdered, stolen property, discriminated, and selfishly put themselves over and above the needs of their people on a scale even the vilest of corporate fat cats couldn't imagine.
"I'm selfishly mad that she's not here to make me laugh," Hamill said in PEOPLE's special issue Star Wars: The Ultimate Guide to The Last Jedi and exclusive PeopleTV special.
This tension in modern workplaces, North says, often involves younger employees viewing older employees as overly aggressive, or selfishly refusing to step down from the C-suite and leadership roles.
Increased fairness: Other experiments found that a mild bad mood caused people to pay greater attention to social expectations and norms, and they treated others less selfishly and more fairly.
I saw him three times, not because I callously, selfishly refused to see him as much as I could before he was gone but because, to me, he already was.
Breezing past the line in the store to grab his beverage waiting on the counter, "I selfishly feel like I won the system and saved a bunch of time," Street said.
It was another few years before I trusted myself to try again, or maybe I selfishly wanted a couple more Thanksgivings with guaranteed perfect macaroni and cheese before I stepped up.
I also selfishly hope that they want to live in New York so I can pay forward what my dad is doing for me so I can do that for them.
It may not have been illegal, but you acted selfishly and not in a manner that benefited our country, just like when you got a medical deferment to avoid the draft.
In a world where a diminishing number of working-age people must shoulder an increasing welfare burden, is it really fair that we selfishly continue to think it's only about us?
They share the facile assumption that policymakers and regulators are pledged nobly to the national interest or the common good, while corporate boards and investors are selfishly focused on profit alone.
It is critical that by not stockpiling, by not selfishly shopping, by leaving these supplies for others too, that our health workers are able to get access to what they need.
And when T'Challa asked Nakia to stay in Wakanda, he made sure to help her fulfill her chosen life purpose versus just selfishly asking her to sacrifice everything to be with him.
In October, after an announcement that the ninth movie would be delayed until 2020, Tyrese Gibson, another "Fast and Furious" franchise star, blamed Johnson, saying on Instagram that he was acting selfishly.
I immediately did the thing we all do when confronted with our own selfishness, which is selfishly think for a while about how bad I felt about having been a crummy friend.
Selfishly, I thought that if I told him about it, he'd think, Well, she was pretty drunk, and we haven't been going out for that long, so it's not a big deal.
"Individuals or groups seeking to benefit from the deviation of construction materials — for corruption or other reasons — selfishly compound the suffering of their own people and sow the seeds of future violence."
"Having her there, selfishly for me, made me happy, and I think it kind of saved the show with Adam going away," he said at a press conference in Nashville last month.
And also, this is so my sound, so it's good for me because I could literally play an entire night of all Magic City tracks at this point, which is selfishly fun.
"I am grateful that this is summer, selfishly because I don't know how to talk to them at all about this, especially my little boys who look like Phil," she told CNN Friday.
So I can't help be simultaneously thrilled that this season's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has received such a hero's welcome and a little selfishly sad that I don't see queer women represented.
When the news was unclear — when Petty was pronounced dead and then not — I found myself selfishly hoping that he'd somehow pull through, even though I knew enough to know that he likely wouldn't.
Are we acting unethically — or at the least selfishly or self-indulgently — in pursuing biological children instead of adopting orphans who could benefit from what (we like to think) would be a good home?
On top of that, my sister selfishly opted out of helping with party prep yesterday in lieu of getting a bikini wax, and she gave me grief this morning about her missing makeup brush.
The four teen girl witches at the center of the movie use their powers selfishly and for personal gain, even harming others, in ways not countenanced by Manon, the masculine source of their power.
"For me, it's just such an ideal partnership, because selfishly I just participate and work in areas that are very important to me, meaning both fashion and supporting women's empowerment," Washington, 39, tells PEOPLE.
" Another wrote: "Mark Gorski, you did what so many others would not, you selfishly reacted not because a life needed to be saved, but because you thought it was the right thing to do.
The husband and his wife, a childcare worker in Japan's Aichi Prefecture, apologized for what her boss described as "selfishly breaking the rules," the 28-year-old man told the newspaper in a letter.
After trying to selfishly alter her fate by editing the page, her life spirals out of control in the most unexpected ways, until she is a friendless orphan (which isn't even the worst part).
Unclear. However, his wife, Ayesha Curry, has already planted her foot firmly into the culinary world—her Seasoned Life cookbook will be out later this year—and we selfishly hope he joins the cooking fun.
And over and over, she lied to the American people about her secret email server, which selfishly and recklessly jeopardized classified intelligence while also covering up massive conflicts of interest at her corrupt Clinton Foundation.
This is about something going on inside you that makes you act selfishly, some way of seeing yourself and being in the world that keeps you from seeing how much your actions affect other people.
Across the album's 11 tracks, Bolm repeatedly leans on the idea that he somehow failed as a son, that he was too busy selfishly chasing rock star dreams in his mother's last moments of need.
So I would stick to my advice to think selfishly: Be bold and specific about what it would really take to reconfigure the job you long to quit into a job you'd love to keep.
"Selfishly, it is a huge inconvenience to my business, what with scheduling deliveries and trash pickup," Mr. Tang said in an email, noting that the confusion had subsided and trucks were now allowed at night.
Selfishly, as a new parent, the fact that I can watch two Best Picture nominees (the other being Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story) at home on a subscription service I've already paid for is really appealing.
But they never exploited it as a strategy and governing principle; and never departed -- certainly never as egregiously and selfishly as Trump has -- from their role as unifiers and custodians of the values of the office.
Selfishly, I forgot about my dad and spent at least 45 minutes taking note of the bizarre realities of stocking a bookstore solely based on 22 years of crowdsourced opinions and three months of preorder data.
Selfishly, I hope the whole world gets to discover what an amazing singer and woman my beautiful wife is, and that her music outlives not only the both of us but also our children's children's children.
Some in the tech scene worry that male VCs may selfishly avoid meetings with female founders or move them to less conducive office settings to minimize their own risks of being called out for bad behavior.
Given that Price didn't selfishly desert his family, his equation wasn't strictly about altruism, and his altruism didn't directly cause his death, Farnworth had to make some choices about the story she was going to tell.
I worried, selfishly, about my own role in witnessing this marginally historic moment — would the 10 minutes I had invested in watching the bottom of the ninth be wasted on account of this no-good umpire?
Lemonade has raised $60 million to date with the thesis that insurance companies can cut costs and automate more of their processes if they can somehow incentivize users to act less selfishly and commit less fraud.
Like so many other doppelgänger and alt-universe stories, the film The Double also functions as a fantasy, as one lonely guy gets to see how much happier he could be if he just behaved more selfishly.
I hope it passes so that we don't go into another shutdown, and selfishly hope that the vote isn't too late so my boyfriend and I can spend time together tomorrow before I leave for the weekend.
His claims to be invading the Middle East to help liberate the Iraqi people and promote democracy were scorned, as European politicians and placard-wielding protestors alike asserted that he was bent on selfishly grabbing Arab oil.
For most people, the answer is a clear and certain "yes," but Larry David is not like most people, and there's a certain and very funny thrill to watching him act so selfishly in moments like these.
Second, did you bail well (sending an honest text, offering another date to get together) or did you bail selfishly (ghosting, talking about how busy your life is, as if you were the only person who matters)?
I selfishly thought about what I had sacrificed to get to where I was, and while I knew I had little to no chance of making the Seahawks' roster as a 34-year-old rookie, I was trying.
I also believe that somewhere along the way, she knew her goal was implausible (at least, for now) and that, instead of accepting reality, she selfishly tried to convince herself, and the world, that she could make Theranos successful.
" Neller outlines the principles of virtue the Marines attempt to uphold, but says that "unfortunately, it appears that some Marines may have forgotten these fundamental truths, and instead have acted selfishly and unprofessionally through their actions on social media.
But my gosh, Maria, it&aposs time to do something for the American people and they&aposre acting very selfishly, they&aposre acting very petulantly, and they need to grow up and quit getting in it with Donald Trump.
Selfishly, we hope this doesn't cause a ripple effect across track-pant retailers worldwide; we hope those of us who actually wear these to the gym will be able to snag another pair or two before they sell out.
I am desperate to overload my senses in the coming months, making reservations at the world's best restaurants, reaching out to past lovers and friends, and smothering my family, giving them the time that I so selfishly guarded before.
Meehan gave the Times a copy of the letter he hand-wrote to the aide last year in an effort to make amends for the behavior, writing that he reacted "selfishly" and attempted to express support for her relationship.
"Instead, in a fit of anger he selfishly chose to take the spotlight away from a dozen deputies who were recognized for their work and who risk their lives every day to protect the people of Tamarac," Feeley wrote.
I have containers and containers of clothes that I've hoarded in my attic and I probably should give them away to give good use, but I am selfishly wanting to hold on it because I'm like, 'What if I need that?
Selfishly, because most of my gaming takes place on a 1080p projector (which isn't cheap to upgrade), my hope's always been that Microsoft would emphasize speed over image quality and try to lock down games at 60 frames-per-second.
If we had to put ourselves in this kitten's paws, we'd guess she's thinking about those days her owner selfishly slept through the breakfast hour, leading the kitten to have her morning meal at the unreasonable time of 8:00 a.m.
"Selfishly, it is our hope that if there are female founders that are building companies in the space of software and technology, that we want a strong pipeline of female founders and we want to see your companies," Kutcher said.
"Well, selfishly I would say that the Fed's gone easy since I left, but of course times are better for the banks as well as for the American economy," Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust, told CNBC on Thursday.
Even though it looked like the impromptu set I had selfishly hoped to orchestrate wasn't going as planned, I knew enough about the man to bank that'd he'd be stoked to hang out in the space and nerd out on gear.
He argued that oftentimes individuals think and act selfishly, but that people caring about the well-being of one another isn't just helpful in making the world a better place — it's necessary, Schur said, in making sure society runs effectively.
A woman who struck and killed two young children with her car in Brooklyn selfishly insisted on driving despite repeated warnings from doctors that it would be unsafe for her to get behind the wheel, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
With the tighter deadline, I selfishly wish I had just a little more time to expand on a moment or two, but his fan base seemed really excited about what we came up with so my heart is very full.
Some early-stage venture capitalists selfishly acknowledge that while Son is a destabilizing force in Silicon Valley, he is a force for good if he can buy out their shares in secondary transactions — offering them and their own investors an early exit.
I met my cofounders through mutual friends in the tight-knit San Francisco tech community, and we believed we could solve a problem — and selfishly, there was no better way for me to "drink from the fire hose" and accelerate my learning.
" Nev says he's gonna miss Max for "his ability to listen, empathize and advise" and adds ... "While selfishly I'd love to keep him all to myself, I know that unleashing the creativity and passion that he has will benefit so many of us.
That's why, in the penultimate refresh of our season-long collaboration with eBay, we're semi-selfishly serving our own needs with "Crunch Time," a specially curated shop in which we've selected some ultra-special, last-minute gift ideas that look anything but.
While Owen's earlier work saw Kinsella selfishly reflecting on the trials and tribulations of being a single guy, he has matured over the years as he's gotten married and become a father twice over, and has begun writing more deeply about life.
According to prosecutors, Furtado injected an unsafe amount of a synthetic resin called polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) into her butt during the deadly procedure, putting Calixto's life in danger "under the false promise of immediate beauty, selfishly motivated by greed and an easy profit," they wrote.
Claire joins them for the fete, and is faced with an awkward situation when Professor Travers — otherwise known as Frank's would-have-been wife had he not died in that car accident — confronts Claire about her selfishly holding on to Frank all those years.
As tired as he appears, we're gonna take a leap and say he might've also been feeling bummed about the Cardi sitch, for which he got dragged online after many folks accused him of hijacking her moment to selfishly satisfy his agenda ... begging for forgiveness.
But deciding to be a part of that scene would become dangerous and ultimately devastating for a young married couple — two disparate souls from different countries, who selfishly wanted to partake of that counterculture, be part of whatever resistance they could, while simultaneously raising children.
All that needs to happen is for our elected officials in Washington to put their selfishly motivated political calculations aside and do what is best and what is required to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all  foreign and domestic enemies.
You must also know that in ordering you to write the memo, Mr. Trump exploited the integrity you have earned over nearly three decades in public service, spending down your credibility as selfishly as he has spent other people's money throughout his business career.
When Tyson Chandler called out Carmelo for playing selfishly during a playoff series in 2013 and subsequently created friction between the two—friction that started after Melo created drama upon returning to the lineup after the Linsanity stretch—the center was sent packing within a year.
I chose Jordan for this date because I knew he'd be able to handle this activity, and also selfishly, if I started to collapse from heat (y'all probably know by now that heat and I do not mix) he could probably carry me up this mountain.
So what makes you more uncomfortable, the idea that a private corporation might act too selfishly when it comes to road improvements and maintenance or the certainty that you will have to budget ludicrous extra time to successfully travel the government-controlled roads as they are now?
Technocracy may end up being as much part of the problem as the solution The second is where there are a variety of other "choice architects" — possibly in the private sector — already working hard to shape people's decisions to selfishly benefit themselves rather than the people making the choices.
In a new F-bomb-filled PSA for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema theater chains, pegged to McCarthy's upcoming film The Boss (which opens April 8), the actress very politely – at first – advises filmgoers to not trash the experience for everyone else by selfishly checking one's phone, talking or texting.
In an inexplicably sea punk video, members of the Numerai team and other investors explains that a similar idea underpins the working of the bitcoin network, where miners are incentivized to use their processing power in a way that strengthens the network as a whole rather than working selfishly.
I'd been planning to move back to Paris on an artistic residency, and for a stunned couple of days I selfishly worried that this would no longer be possible, that the rapidly declared "state of emergency" would separate me from a beloved city I was by no means done with.
There are a few highlights: Queen Latifah and Benjamin Bratt put in wonderful work as, respectively, the girls' pseudo-mother and selfishly enthusiastic manager; the music is catchy even when it's also forgettable (and isn't Empire's, too?); and the series often pushes the musical sequences into fantastic and surrealistic territory.
"These troopers selfishly tarnished the reputation and badge worn proudly by so many other hard working members of the Massachusetts State Police, who put their lives on the line for all of us every each and every day," Hank Shaw, FBI special agent in charge of the Boston Field Division, told reporters.
But Normal doesn't read like a work set in an unknown future: Its characters, struggling to reconcile their study of how the human race is selfishly pushing the earth towards annihilation with daily life, feel familiar—and, to Ellis, who came up with the story while giving talks at futurist conferences, they are.
"O'Rourke on the Constitution: "I'm hesitant to answer it because I really feel like it deserves its due, and I don't want to give you a -- actually, just selfishly, I don't want a sound bite of it reported, but, yeah, I think that's the question of the moment: Does this still work?
She's a diagnostic genius, always on the lookout for symptoms in her daughters of the opportunistic infections that the seemingly uncurable systemic disease of patriarchy leaves them vulnerable to: excessive focus on their children, the anger that courses through them, their tendency to selfishly grab for some small pleasure like rats with cheese.
It's impossible for me to know if, by the time I have children — if I do have children — I'll regret the years I spent selfishly indulging without them, but right now, as I live through these years in the present tense, I certainly don't regret a thing; I might be the happiest I've ever been.
A few weeks later, on Easter, when I selfishly unloaded all the things that were making me anxious upon my mom, she told me to place my index finger to my thumb—the same A-OK sign Angelo had instructed us to do in our hypnosis—harkening back to the chill we had experienced.
With so many dishes—particularly so many different carbs—available, you need to be strategic about what you choose to put on your plate so you don't wind up bowing out of dinner early, overstuffed on mediocre mashed potatoes before you even start digging into the turkey leg you so selfishly took for yourself.
" Yates, who served with Biden as deputy attorney general in the final two years of the Obama administration, described her former colleague as "a thoroughly decent person who will restore integrity and honor to the presidency," as well as "work to heal a country that has been selfishly ripped apart for personal and political gain.
After all, they are already moral exemplars thanks to their vocation and their sacrifices; whatever small wrongs they might commit are mitigated by the fact that they are out there on the front lines, saving the unfortunate when they could be selfishly making a good living in the comfort and safety of the first world.
So, selfishly, when we were getting the space ready to start doing shows, the first thing I did was go downtown, and there's this street downtown where you can get suspicious DJ equipment—you know, it may or may not have fallen off a truck—and I may or may not have bought five disco balls.
At first glance it seems like he's either the best guy in the world (with poor taste in music) for taking his loved one to an amazing concert even though it clearly pains him, or the absolute worst for selfishly taking a ticket away a Beyhive member and not even appreciating what he has literally right in front of him.
"And the more often you object to Millenials' understandable resentment toward a generation that has selfishly poisoned their water, blown past every climate warning so they could drive their stupid hummers, and looked away or worse for sexual, racial and economic injustice, the more you prove their point that you just don't understand anything of value to them," she wrote.
Plenty of the responses are sexist and racist, with dozens complaining that the ad makes white men in particular look bad and arguing that, basically, there is no such thing as "toxic masculinity," but rather a tragic lack of masculine influences in schools and homes because women are so bad at holding on to husbands and selfishly insist on being the majority of public school teachers.
And, because we were doing this [Play Like A Girl] as a showcase, we wanted to have it on our own terms…The way that Vega's is set up, and all those things that originally were selfishly motivated because I was presenting my own work—I think because of all those factors, all the bands that played there really enjoyed playing there, and have continued to want to do that.
The 44-page episode, titled "The Twin Towers," perfectly channels what Domineau sees as the "nihilistic, no-hugging-no-learning nature of the show" by focusing on how the core characters each react selfishly to the national catastrophe: Jerry develops a paranoia about dust, Elaine tries to break up with a survivor she's seeing, George masquerades as a first responder, and Kramer discovers his friend was one of the terrorists behind the attacks.

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