How To Use Self-sacrifice In A Sentence
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Surely, no flame of piety, idealism, or self-sacrifice could burn in the cold hearts of its citizens.
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Tom Staple would have willingly been impaled before a Committee of the House, could he by such self-sacrifice have infused his own spirit into the component members of the hebdomadal board.
Barchester Towers
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After all, both in reality and cinema, heroism consists of self-sacrifice: the sacrifice of life and freedom.
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When the Americans did not give up but rather kept building more planes and tanks, the Japanese responded with massive suicidal attacks, believing that Americans, selfish and mongrelized, could not stand up to such a show of national unity and self-sacrifice.
Sea of Thunder
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If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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You must carry on that history with complete dedication and self-sacrifice.
Writers in Hollywood, 1915-51
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Disgusted with the bland, palliative Lutheranism of his day, he stresses duty, self-sacrifice, and total commitment.
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All it's done is remind me that when self-sacrifice is held up as a moral ideal, whatever you give will never be enough.
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Some questioned the political gain of such self-sacrifice, or of trying to take down a heavily guarded fence in a gesture of dubious symbolism.
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Through self-sacrifice we must show people that service of the public is a life-building motivation.
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It bears wonderful witness to the far-reaching power of evangelistic preaching, self-sacrifice, and persistent house-to-house visitation.
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War, of course, provided the readiest source for idealized displays of self-sacrifice.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Try to break your pattern of self-sacrifice and self-sabotage, and stay on the road to good health.
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I count some of these amongst my closest friends - people whose self-sacrifice and unselfish love of truth would do credit to any man.
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It requires self-sacrifice, particularly for women.
Times, Sunday Times
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If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality.
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
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The Chinese tradition of racing memorializes the spirit of Qu Yuan, who is remembered for his self-sacrifice, his steadfast morality, the power of his writing, and his concern for his fallen compatriots.
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Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had belonged only in the realm of myth.
Times, Sunday Times
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The president saluted the courage and self-sacrifice of those who fought for their country.
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People say this is a selfish society, but frankly I've seen too much kindness, self-sacrifice and generosity to believe that.
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Are we to believe that in the rational future, these works will be surpassed by works exalting happiness and denigrating self-sacrifice?
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And the series is lifted by the climax: epic final battle, self-sacrifice, and a decent resolution.
January Books 11) The Wandering Fire 12) The Darkest Road, by Guy Gavriel Kay
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Indeed you might say to Canada and of all her sons that in valor and self-sacrifice, it has been "Canada first.
The Record of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade
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Knighthood valorized individual self-sacrifice for greater social welfare.
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Increasingly, these seem the desperate words of self-surrender and self-sacrifice.
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A true team has three primary components: unity of purpose, trust and self-sacrifice.
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Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had only belonged in the realm of myth.
Times, Sunday Times
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The good news for the toy business is historically it has held up quite well in tough economic times because parents self-sacrifice but their children arent going to know times are tough.
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The Association must so present its work to the churches as to "constrain" them to give; drag them by the chains of Christian duty to give; those who can of their abundance abundantly; those who must of their penury, with this tremendous self-sacrifice.
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 01, January, 1889
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We now value self-gratification more than self-sacrifice and don't want to take on the expense and responsibility children bring.
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Alongside these menacing words is a call for self-sacrifice, in order that democracy should prevail.
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Families achieve these results through self-sacrifice and perseverant efforts that promote their children's development.
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They also stress that self-sacrifice should be motivated by the fight, not to escape personal problems.
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She loved him as true women love, with that sublime self-sacrifice which only desires the happiness of the thing beloved; yet a kind of insensate rage stirred for once in her gentle soul to think that the mere sight of a strange woman with dark eyes, -- a woman whom no one knew anything about, and who was by some people deemed a mere adventuress, -- should have so overwhelmed this man whose genius she had deemed superior to fleeting impressions.
Ziska
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But moral courage, self-sacrifice, humility - these virtues are irrelevant, because they involve a comparison between self and others of which the autist is by definition incapable.
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First, he allowed Palestinians in Gaza to organize irregular guerrilla units called fedayeen—“self-sacrificers.”
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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People say this is a selfish society, but frankly I've seen too much kindness, self-sacrifice and generosity to believe that.
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Relationships often come to feel like obligations, burdens, rife with the possibility of self-sacrifice.
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Dogs are not noted for their understanding of abstract concepts, and so do not manifest altruism or self-sacrifice in any meaningful sense.
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Suppose that they had seriously endeavored, and had succeeded in the endeavor, to banish the word disinterestedness from the language; had obtained the disuse of all expressions attaching odium to selfishness or commendation to self-sacrifice, or which implied generosity or kindness to be any thing but doing a benefit in order to receive a greater personal advantage in return.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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While Greek love is not a sentiment, it may be sentimental, that is, an _affectation of sentiment_, differing from real sentiment as adulation does from adoration, as gallantry or the risking of life to secure favors do from genuine gallantry of the heart and self-sacrifice for the benefit of another.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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But co-operation and self-sacrifice also exist, even at quite basic levels of conscious animal life.
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They have been iconised in billboards and adverts across America - as symbols of strength, courage and self-sacrifice.
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I thanked my parents for all their self-sacrifice on my behalf.
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The market economy invests heavily in and rewards individualism, not self-sacrifice and altruism, the lifeblood of the family.
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Increasingly, these seem the desperate words of self-surrender and self-sacrifice.
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Certainly their self-sacrifice is worthy of considerable praise.
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Instead they reminisce and we learn of a woman capable of great love and self-sacrifice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once, Englishmen took Henry V's exhortations to martial self-sacrifice as inspiring.
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As for self-sacrifice it was mostly incredible.
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If the gentlemen's code lauded self-sacrifice, its opposite selfishness - was behavior that, if egregious enough, could defrock a gentleman.
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Working-class women who endured hardship and self-sacrifice and survived with something of themselves still intact.
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Every bit of heroic self-sacrifice, every battle fought and won, every good deed performed, is being irradicably credited to you in your nervous system, and will finally add its mite toward achieving the success of your ambitions.
The Mind and Its Education
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The pelican is a symbol of self-sacrifice, and a Masonic symbol of resurrection!
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He was endowed with the spirit of self-sacrifice.
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The three Power Plant cutouts are based on the idea of self-sacrifice in time of crisis, much like the Japanese power plant emergency workers risking their lives for the greater good of their disaster-stricken country.
Bovey Lee's Elegaic Crisis Cutouts Inspired By Japan's Tsunami And Power Plants
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I am no otherworldly saint who leads a beautiful life of self-sacrifice and prayer in a secluded hermitage.
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Academics have concluded the values drummed into their grandparents, such as a strong work ethic and self-sacrifice, have been lost in the relentless quest for self-fulfilment.
Young Adults of Today Have an Over-Inflated Sense of Entitlement | Impact Lab
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Maturity is about self-awareness and self-sacrifice, but not about less fun.
The Lo-Down
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It was a company, initially isolated in the Ozarks, in which worker expectations and executive decisions were based not on an effort to "constitutionalize" the world of work, but to make it a site of sociability, evangelical self-sacrifice, patriarchal authority, and visceral hostility to unions and to government regulation of wages or work practices.
Nelson Lichtenstein: This Labor Day, Is the World of Work a More Secure and Lawful Place?
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My grandmother, who is in an excellent state home, is of an age group who have shown a level of altruism and self-sacrifice that beggars belief.
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Dogs are not noted for their understanding of abstract concepts, and so do not manifest altruism or self-sacrifice in any meaningful sense.
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Anyone who really wanted to get rid of suffering would have to get rid of love before anything else, because there can be no love without suffering, because it always demands an element of self-sacrifice, because, given temperamental differences and the drama of situations, it will always bring with it renunciation and pain.
Pope Benedict XVI
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Vietnam has fought off five of what it calls imperial intrusions over the centuries — the Mongols, Han Chinese, French, Americans and modern Chinese — thanks to its incredible discipline and self-sacrifice.
Between Hanoi And Havana
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If that smacks of the antiquated language of retired generals, call it altruism and self-sacrifice.
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That's followed by two touching acts of self-sacrifice born of love.
Times, Sunday Times
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These venerable ladies had admitted that in marrying, even opulently, out of the family, Emma had once more shown velleities of self-sacrifice.
The Collectors
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His emotional disengagement required great self-sacrifice, as James turned away from love and from the demands that it might make upon him.
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Don´t ever lose track of the fact that the death of Anna Nicol Smith, which is taking up all of the time allocated to news on CNN and MSNBC this morning, is far more important to U.S. audiences, the saviors of the world, than the misery of a bunch of hillbillies from a state in Southern Mexico they never even heard of who were were off to the fire pit if it weren´t for the self-sacrifice of those missionaries.
San Crist�bal and World Heritage Status
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But it is clear that patriotic duty and self-sacrifice appealed strongly to Diana.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first course in the banquet is a child's bleeding heart, and the other courses are equally gruesome; and they drink a toast to "the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, the grand self-sacrifice that made us what we are.
The War and the Church
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Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had belonged only in the realm of myth.
Times, Sunday Times
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I believe they imparted a bottom-line idea of morality derived from self-sacrifice, respect and immutable values.
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Such organizations should be ready all the time to make life-or-death choices and have the organizational capability of self-sacrifice.
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This was truly an inspiring example of Indigenous courage, valor, honor, gallantry and self-sacrifice.
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I knew of no virtues except truthfulness, obedience, self-sacrifice, total abstinence from alcoholic drinks ....
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It is about dedication and self-sacrifice to the ideal of national freedom.
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Out of a sheer impulse for self-protection she flies to the nunnery, which is ready to give her life at the price of her womanhood and her self-sacrifice.
Celibates
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This was truly an inspiring example of Indigenous courage, valor, honor, gallantry and self-sacrifice.
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The job requires a lot of enthusiasm, dedication and self-sacrifice.
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We seem to be confronted in these films by the masochistic pleasure women take in their own self-sacrifice or renunciation.
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His self-sacrifice and idealism are also in stark contrast to the corruption and cynicism evident in modern Ireland.
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In 1900 the person who displayed altruism and self-sacrifice would simply have been regarded as ‘good’.
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They have left their homes, they have left their kindred, they have broken all the nearest and dearest ties of human life in order to come to a new land, take a new rootage, begin a new life, and so by self-sacrifice express their confidence in a new principle; whereas, it cost us none of these things.
America First Patriotic Readings
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His self-sacrifice and idealism are also in stark contrast to the corruption and cynicism evident in modern Ireland.
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Nevertheless, they concede that self-sacrifice must continue to play a role within this ethic of mutuality.
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PFC Thompson's dauntless courage and gallant self-sacrifice reflect the highest credit on himself and uphold the esteemed traditions of military service.
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He almost undoubtedly saved his wife's life, but the price he paid for this act of bravery and self-sacrifice was horrific.
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Powerful words can drive men to madness. They may inspire them, schizphrenically, to acts self-sacrifice.
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The new religions exalt secular saints, enforce dogma, punish heretics, value self-sacrifice, and sanctify writings.
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Mythologem—a basic theme, as of revenge, self-sacrifice, or betrayal, that is shared by cultures throughout the world.
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In churches around the country today we will be hearing stories from the Bible about the courage and self-sacrifice of mothers.
The Sun
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Now, when I found out first that life and death are means to an end, that passion uses both, indisputably mistress of the man whose form of worship is self-sacrifice -- now, from the stone lungs sighed the scrannel voice, ` Leave that live passion, come be dead with me! '
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
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Bush's visit to the memorial is sure to generate enormous protest, as well it should, but I think it also presents a rare opportunity to bring Gandhi's philosophy of "satyagraha" - truth-seeking, self-sacrifice and nonviolent resistance - to bear on the world Bush has wrought.
Bush and Gandhi
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Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had only belonged in the realm of myth.
Times, Sunday Times
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While serving in the army, Johnson began a side career as a writer of short stories for magazines in which boys in the military learn discipline, loyalty, and self-sacrifice, and make themselves into men.
A Renegade History of the United States
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But co-operation and self-sacrifice also exist, even at quite basic levels of conscious animal life.
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Meanwhile, Rose, who at one point complains that she's not good at anything, is shown to have been really good at the kind of self-sacrifice that is really self-punishment.
Lance Mannion:
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He was pleased at her logic—and at her self-sacrifice.
Judge deveraux
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Many of those at the funeral not only expressed sorrow at his death, but commented on his self-sacrifice and firmness.
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Gifts given without cause and beyond the ability to expend, self-sacrifices which seem so noble at the time compose propitiation.
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The idea upon which the whole show was built - self-sacrifice for a higher, artistic ideal - had got lost along the way.
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The new conservatives saw that the rhetoric of self-sacrifice had become meaningless to the generation born after the revolution.
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Seeking to protect his pregnant wife, gangster Gui decides to give himself up to the authorities, only to find his act of self-sacrifice results in the loss of everything to less scrupulous rivals.
