How To Use Self-serving In A Sentence

Shanghai Baby is peopled with nimble-witted hedonists. From the point of view of traditional mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels.
As the Clintonscontinue theirself-serving political dance ~ Obamamay not be able to keep up with their Washington two step. The Clintons / Open For Business Again
The public had seen ‘nothing more than a self-serving determination to protect their vested interests’.
This is impressive in its way, but also self-serving, exhibitionistic, and ultimately stultifying.
Even when black Democratic politicians stumble and engage in borderline corrupt and self-serving feather their own nest antics, they are still regarded as better bets than Republican candidates to be more responsive to black needs. Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Black Republicans Peddle Fantasy of Ousting Democrats in November

It is a self-serving load of old cobblers. Times, Sunday Times
She has been exposed as an amoral, unfeeling, self-serving, despicably conscience-less human being.
While the recollections of participants are a lode of information, without corroborating sources, many interviews turn into self-serving pieces.
It doesn't take much of a storyline shift for a cheery Lothario to be recast as a self-serving pesterer. Can 'Bonking Boris' have his cake and eat it?
I'd rather read this than any number of self-serving autobiographies by more famous musicians. Times, Sunday Times
By defending his blundering ways, this self-serving little weasel shows callous disregard for that poor little girl.
That sounds mercenary and self-serving; it smacks too much of self-advancement. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
He was a ruthless, self-serving politician.
To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
Not only was it regarded as supremely self-serving, but both outcomes were highly improbable. Times, Sunday Times
These composition and narrative tricks would seemingly sink another film, making it too clever and crafty in a self-serving fashion.
Not only was it regarded as supremely self-serving, but both outcomes were highly improbable. Times, Sunday Times
I always knew that the oncologist was a weak-kneed little girl with a self-serving streak. A wholehearted "Yes!"
Yet to the unreflecting eye they can appear as isolationist, self-serving and even criminal.
These are short-sighted, power-crazed, intellectually degenerate, self-serving, morally empty imbeciles!
It obliges us to be stripped of our illusions, our narrow and self-serving views.
So I think you are simply an irrational bigot, who hates, hates, hates, without any particular distinctions or variation all those who, in your deranged mind, dare to “oppose” your ideologies by not pliantly following the self-serving, hypocrtical, insane creeds of the members of your “in” group of your social circle. Think Progress » POLL: Active Duty U.S. Soldiers Disapprove Of Bush Handling Of War, Do Not Support Escalation
Self-serving and public-spirited doctors alike want a break from top-down revolution. National Health Service: Dogma, democracy and the doctors | Editorial
They are accused of being legalist, obsessive about detail, hypocritical and self-serving.
Why did many left-liberals regard him as a self-serving betrayer of their principles?
If our nation is going to outlove, outthink, and outlive the self-serving culture of the day, They Call Me Dad must be the map on the road less traveled. They Call Me Dad
The campaign to put a spoke in the wheels of efforts to clean up the customs service has descended to the level of self-serving media manipulation.
Willing to bankrupt the Nation and their Children's futures for their self-serving ideologic desires. Pelosi: Climate bill will pass
By their selectivity of causes and their self-serving approach they have discredited themselves as genuine defenders of human rights and liberties.
Coming from media conglomerates and other corporate giants, that sort of rhetoric is notably self-serving.
And what have I read in response: rants against George W.Bush as though he's still in office, self-serving I'm misunderstood, citations of nebulous studies to confirm a personal hatred, more than one response that while espousing disdain of "political correctness", still compeled to toe the line with some of the above drivel. TEXAS FAITH: How can religious leaders keep Fort Hood incident from creating fear, tension and misunderstanding? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
And, Obama got elected because of eight years of narrow minded and self-serving policies of the previous administration which allowed these banks to do business as usual as they buried themselves in unscrupulous fiscal practices. McConnell: There's a bailout fund in current Wall St. reform bill
They are boring, repetitious, and self-serving.
He is corrupt and self-serving to the very core. Times, Sunday Times
The anxiety provokers - media, politicians, and arm chair generals - increase our level of fear, often for self-serving reasons.
Regrettably, the debate is so laden with emotions and self-serving arguments that the facts are often overlooked.
We will be spared the horrors of greedy, selfish and self-serving individuals who trample over people so that they can get a million dollars.
The GGA failed to live up to its lofty and noble ideals due largely to the self-serving nature of some of its less progressive members.
Do trickledown economics work or is it simply a self-serving justification for grotesque inequality? Times, Sunday Times
What a load of unmitigated, unadulterated self-serving guff.
Politicians are seen as old-fashioned, corrupt and self-serving.
To be sure, the commitment was to some extent self-serving, in that food programs were designed to use up the surpluses produced by American agriculture.
Science is not immune from error, folly, or self-serving boosterism.
Marina is the superficially assured yet vulnerable one, naughty, stroppy, self-serving and extrovert, rebelling against her unstable home life.
This insufferable self-serving sanctimony about freedom and liberty is more than just annoying, however.
Though critics of Clarke have charged him with self-serving theatricality, he looked and sounded absolutely sincere to me.
We want to change the system so that the selfish and self-serving villains don't feel the need to harm others.
Being governed by a self-serving political elite is not democratic! The Sun
Of course it doesn't help that a lot of conceptual art is devoid of substance and that those cards are mostly self-serving inane twaddle, but the principle is there.
Seldom will so much hot air have been expended by so many for such a meanly self-serving and self-defeating result.
The only thing 'gold-plated' about British pensions is the gold-plated BS that's being spread about them by self-serving but hardly self-made billionaire heirs like ... well, like "Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here?
The reaction of the so-called French left to the first revelations exposes its cynical and self-serving attitude.
In this way, Plato was self-servingly viewing the world through his own shade of rose-coloured glasses.
Because he viewed human nature as venal, grasping, and thoroughly self-serving, he suggested that ruthless cunning is appropriate to the conduct of government. Five People Born on May 3rd | myFiveBest
Could it be the posthumous public pronouncements were really only shameless self-serving exaggerations?
There could be no greater illustration of the self-serving ossification into which the federation has lapsed. Times, Sunday Times
It helps defuse the self-serving pomposity of much of the journalistic clerisy.
There are too few facts and too much self-serving fiction.
For years, the argument runs, anonymity has actually been the way to get self-serving or rubbishy stories into a self-serving and increasingly rubbishy media.
Of course (he says self-servingly) the No Spin Zone rejects predictability entirely and lives to ask questions that require actual thought, a word anathema to most politicians in this age of spin. Blood Sugar
But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes.
If we act in a purely selfish, self-serving manner, then the future fruition of that action will be negative.
After a while, the whole process operates as though on auto-pilot, self-serving and self-perpetuating.
The newspaper's sudden interest in the anti-war movement is cynical and self-serving.
And those who do it without any self-serving motive live the longest. The Sun
Fisher's attitude was emblematic of the insular and self-serving culture that has dominated the general committee for decades.
New Age materialism seemed an ugly form of self-serving notions to justify greed and the refusal of compassion.
And hey, you can finally tell yourself that being a slothful, gluttonous thief isn't such a self-serving activity, after all.
Her outfits and blokish humour are viewed with muted approval, although even she is eventually portrayed as self-serving and unreliable.
The discussion invokes the ethics of impartiality; those who believe in a universal code of ethics argue that a self-serving action that cannot be universalized is immoral.
She turns on her own staff to make a selfish, self-serving deal behind closed doors that later gets revealed.
The production in India was more self-serving than anything else.
Without going overboard on the bent-backed, swivel-eyed cackling often brought to the character, his Fagin is believably unscrupulous and self-serving.
So we now get stories such as that of an army's nighttime panic when the imagination produces non-existent enemies or a theologically significant animal fable about an overscrupulous ass and a self-serving wolf.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth. Che Guevara
The monarchy gives us the stability and continuity that makes us the envy of countries headed by a self-serving politician. The Sun
But logic, decency and/or patriotism in action - as opposed to simply yapping about it - surely shouldn't be beyond the wit even of this most slippery and self-serving of governments.
Does this term connote the subjective and self-serving claims of the mission planners, or the foreseeable objective consequences of a particular mission?
It also timeously destroys Mr. Speaker Martin's self-serving and pompous valediction in which he sought to claim that if MPs had adopted proposals made last year, all would have been well, the implication being that he had been at the forefront of such changes and had been thwarted by the House. Expenses: The Commons Exocets Itself
He dismissed Stephenson as a self-serving mythmaker: a puerile grandee, whose assertions were little more than the “dangerous hallucinations” of an isolated old man heading toward second childhood.97 This judgment was perhaps too harsh. Storyteller
Microsoft insulting users who dare to use another bowser … never, it should read “… arrogant, pompous, self-serving Microsoft …” more like it. Microsoft’s Browser Comparison Chart Offends Anyone Who’s Ever Used Another Browser | Lifehacker Australia
People are sick of self-serving politicians. The Sun
The union had no room for self-serving demagogues.
However, the EXPECTATION any intelligent discourse from wwallace will result in disappoint and additional frustration, followed by ignorant rhetorical bantering that will only prove their self-serving interests rather than any plausible or factual data to support their claims. Think Progress » McCain: Murtha â€œHas Become Too Emotionalâ€
The second part an utterly embarrassing piece of solidarity with the solider-than-life, three short planks of a self-serving thickie, old spanker and asbestos apologiser. The Monday Cyril: Fawning Post Comes Home to Roost?
He represents the side of rock music that is amoral, hedonistic, self-serving and red in tooth and claw, offering in place of noble aspirations a guiltier, more primal thrill: the licence not to give a damn. Rock's fake rebels
Argument rages, but most of it is self-serving phooey. Yet again, a chance to rein in the bankers has been squandered | Will Hutton
General McChrystal's directive tells soldiers to "confront self-serving officials who monopolise wealth and power and abuse people's trust".
Plentyoffish. com, somewhat self-servingly claims the move is a victory for free dating sites. Its official Match.com Abandons Paid Dating… « The Paradigm Shift
And yet their aims are no less self-serving and their interests no less mercenary than those of any other union.
McDonnell's yet-to-be-delivered statement opens with self-serving platitudes and praise for the committee.
But the people have been voicing disgust at what they see as a corrupt and self-serving political class. Times, Sunday Times
But politicians are expected to be venal and self-serving if given the chance.
It was a military coup, but few regretted the passing of the self-serving politicians. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Since the building tax exemption was a market correction, not an interference, that was a self-serving argument for slumlords and land speculators to make.
For Scotland's future credibility, teachers need to start promoting politics as a high calling in need of rescuing from the slough of self-serving mediocrity in which it is presently mired.
We are funding a new, self-serving elite. The Sun
The USA coastline is being destroyed, because of self-interest, self-serving greedy people. Drilling regulator 'an agency in crisis,' Republican says
Does anyone really want to hear the same tiresome, self-serving nonsense after games? Times, Sunday Times
I say the only paradigm shift self-serving, pretentious, narcissistic and megalomaniacal dictators could bring is to march the "Dark Continent" backwards to the Dark Ages. Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Education Unbanned!
But most readers can probably recognize the cloying phraseology as self-serving.
In this way, Plato was self-servingly viewing the world through his own shade of rose-coloured glasses.
How can you be confident of the self-serving agenda of an agent?
Even if they wrote their thoughts down in their memoirs, you don't know if these were just self-serving lies made up as post facto self-justification for a place in history.
This smug, self-serving inflation of her "accomplishments" is a continued embarrassment to our city. Two Cheers for Robinson-Briggs
On the heels of New York Fashion Week and its self-serving ways, the amfAR New York Gala managed to once again remind the city's power players that there's more to life than the new store opening in SoHo or debating whether Ms. Alt will hold a candle to Carine. Kyle Hotchkiss Carone: amFAR New York Gala Kicks Off Fashion Week For AIDS Research
The scandal has fuelled claims that France is run by a self-serving elite that is out of touch with the rest of the nation. Times, Sunday Times
So much self-serving tub-thumping rubbish has been talked about ‘Moral Re-Armament’ that the phrase is disreputable.
From this side of the Atlantic, the motives behind this action appear far more self-serving.
That's the kind of enthusiast that is being driven into oblivion by self-serving, loudmouth boors who think that they invented the microprocessor.
Indeed, given the two main parties' history of self-serving connivance in this perversion of democracy, is it any wonder that increasing numbers of voters feel alienated by politicians?
For unless one subjects the self-serving declarations of one's protagonist to scrutiny, one ends up writing in the hagiographic mode.
All the rest was crossed out because it was meaningless, self-serving guff - like this column.
They posed as protectors of their local churches against the predations of the invaders; as self-serving as this pose was, the German priests and common people were supportive of it.
But then you have to factor in our self-serving Westminster politicians. The Sun
As shown in several results, women today are a complex combination of altruistic and materialistic, vain and insecure, loyal and self-serving.
It takes on corrupt media moguls, bloodthirsty generals and self-serving politicians, as well as an uncaring public.
But in an age where all of our lives are interconnected - in our economy, our infrastructure, even in our health - this notion of the lone cowboy is a fantasy, and generally a self-serving one for the buckaroo who owns the ranch.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth. Che Guevara
That is so self-serving and selfish in my opinion, so that's the last thing I want to do.
Regrettably, the debate is so laden with emotions and self-serving arguments that the facts are often overlooked.
Or maybe it's his special gift for issuing halfhearted and self-serving mea culpas, an apologia disguised as an apology.
At worst, he was a weak-willed, empty-headed, partially-recovered alcoholic led around by powerful, evil-minded, self-serving, greasy little schemers like Dick Cheney who led us into war for no larger reason than their own greed and vanity. OMG! Knit dinosaurs playing guitar!
Respect and acknowledge the talents of your peers. There is nothing more unprofessional and self-serving than telling others how wonderful you are.
One result of this shilly-shallying is that much of the talk about liberty becomes a self-serving charade.
Collins may not have been a paragon of virtue but he deserves better than to be remembered by future generations as a ruthless, self-serving and power-hungry meglomaniac.
Conversely, but equally false, is the image of a toady who curries favor from higher-ups or someone who twists selfsacrifice into a self-serving art form.
Well, it was painful to watch people supposedly representing the side of ‘nice and normal’ being so clearly shown to be a bunch of self-serving, arse-covering prigs … lines of the ‘debate’? ‘Rent A Mob’ Attack Police At BBC TV Centre « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Be careful what you wish for ....... let's remember that Labour had a fat, self-serving, two faced, useless, snout in the trough thickie who was deputy of the party and the government and look at the damage he did. ffs, he's apparently going to the HoL for being a cretin. Army Rumour Service
These are short-sighted, power-crazed, intellectually degenerate, self-serving, morally empty imbeciles!
Instead, debate is often overwhelmed by superstition, folk wisdom, prejudice and self-serving agendas.
The whirlwind tour was meant to humanize the low-cost leviathan so often depicted as self-serving and ruthlessly pragmatic.
Such an elegiac tone, whilst being, as all retrospective accounts of one's past are, self-serving, at least reminds us that the young Freud did not metamorphose directly into the implacable patriarchal disapprover of Grosskurth's somewhat barren imagination. Schadenfreud
But thankfully, history is also written by historians rather than self-serving spin doctors and political hacks who want to gloss over their own outrages and claim some higher purpose.
The religious 'right' whose theology I believe is often too shapeless, self-serving and undemanding to even deserve the term fundamentalist define the conversation in the eyes of of the media. The President and Intelligent Design
It is easy to shrug off charity and goodwill as petty and self-serving, but consideration for others is not easy and will not always come naturally.
Everyone is intent on pointing the blame elsewhere, and I had the strong suspicion that each interviewee was just feeing me a line of self-serving B.S. as so often happens when the hammer drops. This is Torture
Years of benign neglect on the part of her parents are followed by an intense self-serving attention that masquerades as love.
The man's principal talent is for spinning self-serving tales.
The other is a ruthless, self-serving dealmaker, a fat cat determined to have bowlfuls of cream.
You should reject this self-serving sympathy ploy.
Doesn't this self-serving recklessness suggest a character flaw, a lack of seriousness, some failure of judgement?
Our minds are ingenious in concocting self-serving rationalizations.
The process, compounding the turmoil and collapse of 1979-80, gradually de-professionalized the armed forces and gave power to a variety of ethnic-regional factions, self-serving warlords, and criminal freebooters.
We can see through the pseudo-humility, cod philosophy and self-serving attempts to gain a reputation as a staunch supporter of charitable causes.
Not only was it regarded as supremely self-serving, but both outcomes were highly improbable. Times, Sunday Times
Although this advice may sound self-serving, the fact is that, for a vaccine to successfully immunize a pet, the animal must be healthy.
To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
And the greedy, self-serving, fake Christians at Long's church ate up this false portrayal of Jesus Christ as the Lord of Luxury because it jibed with their solipsistic lifestyle. Wayne Besen: Bishop Bling and the Gay Fling: Rev. Eddie Long's Downfall

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