egoisms
Example Sentences
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"Let us eradicate the prevailing mentality revolving around our ego and personal and national egoisms which determine every decision we take," he said.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2021
Such men—I never have known it to fail—are full of petty vanities and egoisms and contemptible weaknesses, the like of which Estenega could not be capable of.
From The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Life has blundered supremely, in, while making brains its darling, forgetting or helplessly surrendering to the egoisms of alimentation.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.
In this wide category of childish egoisms we seem to be near the level of animal ways.
From Children's Ways by Sully, James
Regular contracts are made between these two egoisms, each of which arms itself against the other with the Do ut des.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste