altruism

Example Sentences

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And Hill infuses Beth with all the impassioned altruism of a worker impatient for the privileged world to wake up.

From Washington Post

"But China can have only one ally: China itself. China can only have one set of interests: pro-Chinese ones. Chinese foreign policy is utterly devoid of altruism."

From BBC

"He was not picked because of his extraordinarily selfless altruism, he was picked because he was a physical and biological match."

From BBC

In the end, “Knock at the Cabin” is about the intractability of two powerful human impulses: altruism and self-preservation.

From Washington Post

This conclusion is important because it reveals that children are capable of empathy and altruism toward animals outside of their own species.

From Salon