Concepts are — usually — intended to titillate our most selfish desires.
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She considers him "the most selfish man [she has] ever known".
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Lucille Bluth is the most selfish member of the dysfunctional Bluth family.
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Will television's most selfish and superficial yet oddly likable character, Gaby Solis, return to primetime?
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" —Sam Shepard "I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life.
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The Frenchman said the 81-year-old Blatter was the most selfish person he had ever known.
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"It's important that you know that you guys are about the most selfish parents around," the anonymous critic wrote.
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"If I did not love Ryan I would call him the most selfish a—— ever for missing this," she said.
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" "That is proselytizing for the most selfish, and the most basic instincts that the American people — like all people — have.
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What if I tried to, in the most selfish way possible, alter this so that I have a maximum amount of fun?
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It's funny because although I do a lot of charity work and volunteering, I'm probably the most selfish lover anyone's ever had.
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"Each time there was a choice for me to not get into a fight, I would do the most selfish thing possible," he says.
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It is Hindley's abuse that leads to Heathcliff's abuse, and Heathcliff in turn creates his son Linton, the cruelest and most selfish of the novel's younger generation.
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They are distillations of some of the most selfish, manipulative, and generally bad impulses that can come out of love, something that was once precious and beautiful.
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She is one of the most selfish people she has ever known, she thinks about this while swimming and after, on the beach, in her towel, shivering.
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And the vast majority of new shows that attempt to play in this space largely emphasize the "one person embraces the most selfish version of themselves" aspect over everything else.
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Few of them still actively try to tell stories about what it means to give in to the darkness, to embrace the most selfish aspects of one's inner being at the expense of others.
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In the play, the humans are degenerates who stop procreating and succumb to their most selfish and strange whims—while the robots remain unerring in their calculations and indefatigable in their commitment to work.
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Her character, Tina — whom the actress calls a "tragic train wreck" — is also almost always the most selfish person in the room, which means she hijacks whatever is happening and makes it about herself.
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While this may work out well for the most selfish individuals in the short term, if Bar-Yam and his colleagues are correct it could be cataclysmic for our species in the long run.
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I remember thinking to myself that I had married the most selfish, spoiled woman on the planet and that if I stayed with her then she was going to drive me to an early grave.
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It's the kind of argument designed to tug at our most selfish impulses while ignoring the economic and political transformations that have left a generation of college graduates struggling under an unprecedented mountain of student debt.
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The joke hit much harder after Saturday, though, when a joke that went viral on the internet arbitrarily gave this garbage McNugget sauce insane monetary value — while also leading to the worst, most selfish human behaviors imaginable.
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And as the show has gradually softened, with more episodes leading to gentler endings rather than devastating ones, the shift has consistently come from the characters making positive, caring choices instead of reaching for the most selfish ones.
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Part of the humiliation of being helped to bring forth what should emerge naturally (or, by implication, not at all) is the speed with which the most generous impulse — to create — begins to look like the most selfish.
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So when everything comes around to bite her in the ass in the finale, we get a raw, hard-to-watch look at what it means to have your most selfish, immature self come smack dab face-to-face with reality.
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Emil Bruce Lester Jr. Pittsburgh To the Editor: This article left me pondering the question — with great arguments to be made on both sides: Is having a baby the most selfless thing we decide to do, or the most selfish?
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When you kill and steal, it is perhaps momentarily regrettable, but eventually justified as part of what you must do in order to keep going—under the simple rubric of survival, the most selfish actions are, if not outright exonerated, at least mitigated.
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Or that time that I accidentally sliced the tip of my finger off on the meat slicer and learned that injuring yourself in this industry is one of the most selfish things that you can do for the rest of your staff.
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Kilmer claimed that a "spiritual guide" told him that suicide is the "most selfish act a human can execute" and rhetorically questioned the Emmy Award-winning host of "Parts Unknown" star about the circumstances and methods of his suicide, including asking if he cheated on girlfriend Asia Argento before killing himself.
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Each category contains answers to a set of questions on moral behaviours. For example, given the question "Would you keep a wallet full of cash you found?", most selfish or evil alignments would keep it, while most good alignments would seek to return the wallet to its owner. The categories are not organized into a pattern like Dungeons & Dragons.
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Works, vol. 4, p. 80. In "On Different Sorts of Fame", "In proportion as men can command the immediate and vulgar applause of others, they become indifferent to that which is remote and difficult of attainment".Works, vol. 4, p. 95. And in "On Good-Nature", "Good nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues...."Works, vol. 4, p. 100.
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" The comments were labeled as racist, and likened to eugenics. This initiated a revival of the controversy, which had been slowly waning. Former aide to President Ronald Reagan David Gergen called Wright's speaking tour "the dumbest, most selfish, most narcissistic thing I've seen in 40 years of covering politics." Libertarian commentator Andrew Sullivan said Wright's comments on the tour were a "calculated, ugly, repulsive, vile display of arrogance, egotism, and self-regard.
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She claimed she had to flee to London during the shoot "to escape physical harm". However she then returned to Nice to shoot the film's final scenes, although she was provided with a bodyguard. Warner Bros later issued a statement supporting Ross and criticising Welch for her "public utterances". Mason told a newspaper at the time that Welch was "the most selfish, ill-mannered, inconsiderate actress that I've ever had the displeasure of working with".
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Also on the following SmackDown, Heavy Machinery's Tucker faced Dolph Ziggler in a rematch from the SmackDown prior to WrestleMania in a losing effort; Otis and Mandy Rose were absent that night. The following week, Sonya Deville called out Rose to clear the air between them. An emotional Deville then stated that Rose was the most selfish person she had ever met. Deville also stated that she was the better wrestler and that Rose was nothing more than eye candy.
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She is not above using her cute appearance to receive expensive gifts and favors from admirers, even including her teacher. While she is outwardly the most selfish of the sisters, she is also the most popular. Yuuhi takes pleasure in using Neo Ranga to intimidate unsavory elements in her neighborhood such as the yakuza, much to her sisters' consternation. Voice: Eri Sendai (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English) Joel is the harbinger of news from the older brother of the Shimabara trio, and apparently their nephew.
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Before sentencing, Leo makes an impassioned statement praising Max for changing his life and being his friend while also referring to him as "the most selfish man I have ever met in my life". Max tells the judge that they have learned their lesson. Max, Leo, and Franz are sent to the state penitentiary. There they produce a new play called Prisoners of Love, a show which proves to be even worse than Springtime For Hitler, mostly because Leo and Max are striving to make a good play instead of a bad one.
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In 1938, they adopted an infant daughter, Beulah (Dee) Seton (later Dee Seton Barber). Dee Seton Barber, a talented embroiderer of articles for synagogues such as Torah mantles, died in 2006. Seton called his father, Joseph Logan Thompson, "the most selfish man I ever knew, or heard of, in history or in fiction." He cut off ties completely after being made to pay off an itemized list of all expenses he had cost his father, up to and including the doctor's fee for his delivery, a total of $537.50.
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Sabine is the darkest and most selfish being in Foo. Snatched from reality at the age of nine, he is now a nit with the ability to freeze whatever he wishes. Sabine thirsts to know the location of the gateway because he believes if he can freely travel between Foo and reality he can rule them both. So evil and selfish are his desires that the very shadows he casts seek to flee him, giving him the ability to send his dark castoffs down through the dreams of men so he can view and mess with reality.
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Russell was known for his distinctive high-pitched laugh (hear at ) of which Auerbach quipped, "There are only two things that could make me quit coaching[:] My wife and Russell's laugh." To teammates and friends, Russell was open and amicable, but was extremely distrusting and cold towards anyone else. Journalists were often treated to the "Russell Glower", described as an "icily contemptuous stare accompanied by a long silence". Russell was also notorious for his refusal to give autographs or even acknowledge the Celtics fans, and was called "the most selfish, surly and uncooperative athlete" by one pundit.
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However, he had a very sound defence and so it was very difficult to get him out. He was the most selfish batsman that I have ever seen. He played first- class cricket in India from 1925 to 1941, with a gap between 1935 and 1938 while he was studying at Cambridge. Richard Cashman writes that he had an encyclopedic memory which enabled him to recall cricket score sheets at will and was also a "great eater and talker", "who could liven the passing hour with an unbroken monologue on any subject from philosophy ... to the art of seasoning a good curry".
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UFC president Dana White went on record saying, "this is one of the most selfish, disgusting decisions that doesn't just affect you. This is affecting 16 other lives, their families, kids are going back to school. The list goes on and on of all the things, the money that was spent for fighters to train and the list goes on and on. Like I said, I don't think this is going to make Jon Jones popular with the fans, sponsors, cable distributors, television network executives or other fighters." A rematch with Lyoto Machida was then announced for September 22, 2012, at UFC 152.
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Anders achieved his fame while playing for the Cougars. Despite the fact that he was mostly a role player who came off the bench, Anders had a significant impact on some of the Cougar's biggest victories, mainly due to his style of play that featured some of the NCAA's most memorable dunks. During the 1983 Final Four between Houston and Louisville, Anders executed two violent dunks, one of which occurred with Houston holding an eight-point lead with less than thirty seconds to play. The reverse dunk was characterized by his teammate Reid Gettys as one of the most "selfish plays" he had ever seen.
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Kennedy won the California primary, but was assassinated shortly after his victory speech at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. US President Lyndon Johnson once described Unruh as "probably one of the most selfish men" he had met in politics.President's Daily Diary entry, 2/4/1968 After an unsuccessful effort, managed by Unruh and Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, to draft Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Unruh released California delegates to vote their conscience and announced that he would support Eugene McCarthy at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Unruh left the legislature to campaign unsuccessfully for governor against Ronald Reagan during 1970.
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Parissien, p. 112 He wore darker colours than had been previously fashionable as they helped to disguise his size, favoured pantaloons and trousers over knee breeches because they were looser, and popularised a high collar with neck cloth because it hid his double chin.Parissien, p. 114 His visit to Scotland in 1822 led to the revival, if not the creation, of Scottish tartan dress as it is known today.Parissien, pp. 324–326 During the political crisis caused by Catholic emancipation, the Duke of Wellington said that George was "the worst man he ever fell in with his whole life, the most selfish, the most false, the most ill-natured, the most entirely without one redeeming quality".
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Reddy was the assistant coach at the Wests Tigers under head coach Jason Taylor but departed the club in 2015 after Taylor's termination. On 25 July 2019, Reddy labelled Wests player Robbie Farah the "Most selfish player I have ever been involved with while either playing the game or coaching bar none". Reddy went on to say “Well we were right he went to Souths and played reserve grade and that Wests Tigers team at the moment is a reserve grade team with 4/5 NRL players in it and Farah is not 1 of them". The comments came in the wake of Farah speaking about Reddy and Taylor to the media days earlier when Farah said “At the time I was told by him and ‘Rocket’ Reddy, I’d finish my career in reserve grade. But I’m here now - ‘JT’ is coaching reserve grade".
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