"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Pride can become vainglory very easily, and self-reliance degenerate to mere selfishness.
- He had thought then that he wanted to redeem his brother's death, but he understood now that his prayers had been prompted by mere selfishness.
- Still, as Mr. Bloom points out, self-reliance has a way of devolving into mere selfishness or self-absorption.
- Remember, excessive grief is mere selfishness; resignation is heroism.
- It was mere selfishness to let his own thought, his own problem, stand first; the very thing he had wished to bring her to see.
- This might seem like mere selfishness, but the specific examples tell a different story.
- They sought alternative explanations of how the process might work, which allowed them to believe that Nature was driven by something higher than mere selfishness.
- When does the assertion of one's personal needs become mere selfishness?
- They let personal ambition, mere selfishness and silly pride, get in the way . . . They were sabotaging his effort to save the Familias Regnant.
- Till now, I told him, my course had been mere selfishness.
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