How To Use Self-sacrificing In A Sentence
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I believe that equality of rights would abate the exaggerated self-abnegation which is the present artificial ideal of feminine character, and that a good woman would not be more self-sacrificing than the best man: but on the other hand, men would be much more unselfish and self-sacrificing than at present, because they would no longer be taught to worship their own will as such a grand thing that it is actually the law for another rational being.
The Subjection of Women
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In film portrayals of African Americans, by the early 1970s, the sexless and self-sacrificing characters played by Sidney Poitier during the civil rights era had been replaced by hypersexual superheroes who had achieved spectacular wealth by means other than “working for the Man.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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The lead character shows lust only for Olympic glory—the most his self-sacrificing wife gets is a sisterly peck on the cheek.
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This "we" is a character in its own right, experiencing Marstal's cycles of birth and death, becoming infected by the contagions of violence or rallied to higher self-sacrificing causes.
Going to Sea Once More
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Filled with enthusiasm, glorying in the great cause he stood for, self-sacrificing, giving himself absolutely to the redemption of humanity, he converted the Farmers to the Fourierite theories and induced them to put these theories to the test of actual experiment.
My Friends at Brook Farm
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The bravest, and the most combative and self-sacrificing of our comrades went into the Fighting
Chapter 16: The End
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Depressed-aggressive suicide-murderers are likely to be people who feel unloved and unvalued, the very opposite of the New York firemen and self-sacrificing passengers aboard the fourth plane, scuppered in the Pennsylvania woods.
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Some of her closest relationships, most notably with her son and her loyal, self-sacrificing assistant, took a battering.
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Finally if you do not die, your loving wife — who has not slept during the whole three weeks of your illness (a fact of which she will constantly remind you) — will fall ill in her turn, waste away, suffer much, and become even more incapable of any useful pursuit than she was before; while by the time that you have regained your normal state of health she will express to you her self-sacrificing affection only by shedding around you a kind of benignant dullness which involuntarily communicates itself both to yourself and to every one else in your vicinity.
Youth
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It took me being a mom, watching him as a doting, self-sacrificing grandfather, to really appreciate all he did for me as a child.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad
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Pisces men are often seen as gallant (opening doors, and offering a hand) and both sexes can be self-sacrificing often putting the needs of their lover ahead of their own.
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Looking down my list, it struck me that all of my chosen stories are about love in some of its myriad forms: romantic, fraternal, perverse, unrequited, frustrated, self-sacrificing and destructive.
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Would self-sacrificing emerge in natural selection?
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After all, it's not really about me: what good is it me being all noble and self-sacrificing if the children lose out?
Diary of a separation
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a dour, self-sacrificing life
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Some bloggers have referred to the self-sacrificing group as the Suicide Corps and compared their resolve to that of the Second World War's kamikaze pilots, who boldly took on suicide missions.
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A vast amount of self-sacrificing work, on the part of teachers and parents, is needed to bring the schools of the Freedmen up to their proper standard, and to secure them, where they are still needed both in city and rural district.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy
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Proponents of same-sex marriage have justified their demand by presenting homosexual partners as devoted, self-sacrificing, and industrious adults.
A Renegade History of the United States
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As we have seen in previous stories, for example, the daughter of a self-sacrificing mother might pursue a career and avoid having children, intent on escaping the burdens encountered in the home.
Wild Feminine
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Without assuming noble or self-sacrificing motive, each individual has, nevertheless, become a microcosm of the whole.
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Felix, though an offshoot from a far more recent point in the devolution of theology than his father, was less self-sacrificing and disinterested.
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Could Lance Armstrong actually be a support rider, that self-sacrificing team player the Franco-centric cycling world calls a domestique?
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He felt that, single-minded and self-sacrificing as his parents were, there yet existed certain latent prejudices of theirs, as middle-class people, which it would require some tact to overcome.
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I now think back on it and recognize it as one of the most admirable and self-sacrificing acts anyone has ever done for me.
Seeing Red: To Write Is to Edit
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In film portrayals of African Americans, by the early 1970s, the sexless and self-sacrificing characters played by Sidney Poitier during the civil rights era had been replaced by hypersexual superheroes who had achieved spectacular wealth by means other than “working for the Man.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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That is exactly why "self-sacrificing" or "altruistic" behavior is such a problem for a theory, evolution, grounded in amorality.
Carry-Over Thread
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She was fiercely loving, too, and self-sacrificing, patient, proud and terribly vain.
THE BROKEN GOD
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That, and his extraordinary capacity for self-sacrificing friendship, loyalty and sweet-natured nannying, have been his quadruple of acclaimed lifetime's high-lights.
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He approved himself to his comrades brave, generous, self-sacrificing.
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He was a generous self-sacrificing man.
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She plunged into her apostrophe with most self-sacrificing vigor at the beginning of the scene, and was prodigal in the use of her voice in its early moments; but when the culmination of its passion was reached, in what would be called the stretto of the piece in the old nomenclature, she could not respond to its increased demands.
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
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Girls are sweet, well-behaved, self-sacrificing, passive, submissive, overemotional, and, above all, attractive.
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Self-sacrificing as her mood might be Tess could not well go further and cry, 'Marry one of them, if you really do want a dairywoman and not a lady; and don't think of marrying me!'
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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In character he appears to have been gentle and kindly, self-sacrificing with his patients and stoical towards his own ill health.
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If you're the self-sacrificing type, you may gallantly leap upon the grenade you're about to drop.
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Finally if you do not die, your loving wife -- who has not slept during the whole three weeks of your illness (a fact of which she will constantly remind you) -- will fall ill in her turn, waste away, suffer much, and become even more incapable of any useful pursuit than she was before; while by the time that you have regained your normal state of health she will express to you her self-sacrificing affection only by shedding around you a kind of benignant dullness which involuntarily communicates itself both to yourself and to every one else in your vicinity.
Youth